Links from the show: * Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway * Connect with Dale * Rate the show About my guest: Dale Jenkins has had a lifelong interest in the Navy and international affairs. He is a former US Navy…

Links from the show: * Orwell: The New Life * Connect with D.J. * Rate the show About my guest: D. J. Taylor is the author of The Lost Girls; Derby Day (nominated for the Booker Prize); and Orwell: The Life (2003), winner of the Whitbread Biography Award. D. J. is a book critic for several British newspapers and lives in London. This is a public ep…

Links from the show: * Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy * Connect with Matt Stoller * Follow Matt on Twitter * Subscribe to Matt’s newsletter * Rate the show About my guest: Matt Stoller is the Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project. He is the author of the Simon and Schuster book Goliath: The …

Links from the show: * Fascinating True Tales from Old California * Connect with Colleen * Rate the show About my guest: Colleen Adair Fliedner is an award-winning author, journalist, and historian. She has written three nonfiction books, radio and t.v. commercials, screenplays, and hundreds of articles for newspapers, magazines, and online publica…

Links from the show: * American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress * Connect with Wesley or follow him on Twitter * Rate the show About my guest: Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best selling author, podcast host and on-air correspondent. At The Marshall Project, he is among the team members working on Testif…

Links from the show: * Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer * Connect with Jillian * Rate the show About my guest: Jillian Lauren is a writer, storyteller, adoption advocate, rock-wife, and lousy kickboxer. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED, and SOME GIRLS: My Lif…

Links from the show: * The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis * Connect with Richard * Rate the show About my guest: Following a career that has spanned fields as varied as banking, energy, credit, and the arts, Richard Vague has recently served as Secretary of Banking and Securities for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is…

Links from the show: * Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire * Connect with Clare * Rate the show About my guest: Clare Frank served as the State of California’s first and only female Chief of Fire Protection. She began firefighting at age 17 and worked her way through the ranks, handling all types of fire and rescue emergencies and major disasters in b…

Links from the show: * Connect with Bishop Nathanyel * Rate the show About my guest: Bishop Nathanyel has been in this truth for over 20 years and has learned at the feet of the seven elders of Israel. He has seen many things in this walk. Great things, both good and bad, but each one played a part in molding him into the leader that he is today. H…

Links from the show: * Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians * Connect with Tara website or on Twitter * Rate the show About my guest: Tara Isabella Burton's debut novel, 2018's Social Creature, was named a "book of the year" by The New York Times, New York's Vulture, and The Guardian. Her second novel, The World Canno…

* V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II * Connect with Craig * Rate the show About my guest: Craig Nelson is the author of Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness and the New York Times bestseller, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, as well as several previous books, includin…

Links from the show: * A True American Patriot * Rate the show About my guest: Daniel J. O’Connor has spent twenty-six years in the CIA as an Executive Senior Intelligence Service (SIS) Officer and was the Chief of Security for Five Different CIA Directors of Intelligence (DCI) and their Deputy Directors (DDCI). He served both at home and overseas …

Links from the show: * The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson * Connect with Patrick * Rate the show About my guest: Patrick Weil is Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Fellow at Yale Law School and a research professor at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. …

Links from the show: * Troublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn't See Coming * Connect with Lisa on Twitter or Instagram * Rate the show About my guest: Lisa Cornwell spent seven years as an on-air host and reporter for Golf Channel, establishing herself as a respected voice in the game. Prior to Golf Channel, she work…

Links from the show: * The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public * Is lethal injection humane? With Dr. Austin Sarat * Rate the show About my guest: For over three and a half decades Barry Latzer was Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College, CUNY,…

Links from the show: * The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education: Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign * About my guest: Wanda Little Fenimore is an award-winning scholar and author whose area of expertise is rhetorical history: the study of historical events through a rhetorical lens. Her research focuses on the legacy of slavery in the…

Links from the show: * MythVision Podcast * Connect with Derek * Rate the show About my guest: Hear more about Derek here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.comRyan Ray

Links from the show: * Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution * Connect with Hadley * Rate the show About my guest: Hadley Arkes is the Edward Ney Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Amherst College. He joined the Faculty at Amherst in 1966 and taught for 50 years. He is the author of multiple books with Princ…

Links from the show: * The Failure of American Conservatism: —And the Road Not Taken * Connect with Claes * Rate the show About my guest: Claes G. Ryn is Emeritus Professor of Politics, Distinguished Senior Scholar, and Founding Director Emeritus of the Center for the Study of Statesmanship at the Catholic University of America, where he was also C…

Links from the show: * Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom * Connect with Ilyon * Find Ilyon on Instagram or Facebook * Rate the show About my guest: Ilyon Woo is the author of The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times and the recipient of a Wh…

Links from the show: * Games of Greed: Excess, Hubris, Fraud, and Theft on Main Street and Wall Street * Connect with Torsten * Rate the show About my guest: Torsten Dennin has been a professional investment expert for more than 20 years. He is a member of the management board and the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Asset Management Switzerland A…

Links from the show: * King: A Life * Connect with Jonathan About my guest: Jonathan Eig is the bestselling author of Ali: A Life, winner of a 2018 PEN America Literary Award and a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize. He also served as a senior consulting producer for the PBS series Muhammad Ali. His first book, Luckiest Man: The Life and De…

About my guest: * The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow * Connect with Craig * Rate the show About my guest: Craig Lamont is a graduate of the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, with a diverse background in Creative Writing, English Literature, and Scottish Literature. His AHRC-funded PhD, ‘Georgian Glasgow: the city remembered through lite…

Links from the show: * Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person * Connect with Shane * Follow Shane on Twitter * Red Letter Christians * Rate the show About my guest: Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He…

Links from the show: * Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land * Connect with Christian * Follow Christian on Twitter * Rate the show About my guest: Christian Pinnen is associate professor of history at Mississippi College. His research and teaching focus on the history of race, slavery, and the law in the American colonial borderlands. This is a pu…

Links from the show: * The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History * Rate the show About my guest: Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, is a leading authority on the history of the Cold War. He is the author of Atoms and Ashes: A Global Hist…

Links from the show: * Walking Among Pharaohs: George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology * Connect with Peter * Rate the show About my guest: Peter Der Manuelian grew up locally but somehow escaped speaking with a Boston accent. He joined both the NELC and Anthropology Departments in 2010, after teaching Egyptology at Tufts University for te…

Links from the show: * The Nicene Creed: An Introduction * Never miss an episode * Rate the episode About my guest: Dr. Cary is a philosopher married to a midwife (he thinks about the mysteries of life; she puts her hands on them). He and his wife have three sons and two grandchildren. His favorite theologian is Martin Luther, which means he feels …

Links from the show: * Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber * Connect with Wendy * Never miss an episode About my guest: Wendy Brown is a political theorist who works across the history of political thought, political economy, Continental philosophy, cultural theory, and critical legal theory. Brown investigates the subterranean powers shaping…

Links from the show: * Who Gets In: An Immigration Story * Connect with Norman * Rate the show About my guest: Norman Ravvin’s recent novel, The Girl Who Stole Everything, is his fourth. It sets out to tell divergent stories of contemporary Poland and Vancouver, which end up crossing in a village northwest of Warsaw. In The Globe and Mail Jade Colb…

Links from the show: * Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation * Connect with Kristen * Rate the show About my guest: Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a New York Times bestselling author and Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her re…

Links from the show: * Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius * Connect with Donald Roberston * Rate the show * Never miss a show About my guest: Donald is a writer, cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist and trainer. He is one of the founding members of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit, and the founder and president of the Plato’s Academy…

Links from the show: * Trained to Kill: The Inside Story of CIA Plots against Castro, Kennedy, and Che * Connect with Carlos * Never miss an episode * Drop a 5-star About my guest: Carlos Harrison is a former reporter for the Miami Herald, where he won the Pulitzer Prize, and has worked as a national and international correspondent for Fox News. He…

Links from the show: * The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege * Connect with Marilynne * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: Marilynne K. Roach works as a free-lance writer, illustrator, researcher, and presenter of talks on historical subjects. She has written for publications as varied as the B…

Links from the show: * The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands * Connect with Nathan * More about Thorne * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: Dr. Nathan Price is Chief Scientific Officer of Thorne HealthTech (NASDAQ: THRN) and author of The Age of Scient…

Links from the show: * Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the “Bitch of Buchenwald” * Connect with Tomaz * Rate the show * Never miss an episode About my guest: Dr. Tomaz Jardim is a historian of modern Europe who joined the Department of History in 2011. Prior to his arrival at Toronto Metropolitan University, he taught at Concordia University and was a P…

Links from the show: * Watch Matt’s YouTube Channel * Rate the show * Never miss an episode About my guest: I’m Dr. Matt Monger - though I publish under the name Matthew P. Monger. I am Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society in Oslo, Norway. I earned my PhD in 2018 wit…

Links from the show: * The No Self, No Problem Workbook: Exercises & Practices from Neuropsychology and Buddhism to Help You Lose Your Mind * Connect with Chris * Rate the show About my guest: While in grad school in the early 1990s, Chris Niebauer began to notice striking parallels between the latest discoveries in psychology, neuroscience, and th…

Links from the show: * William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: Mark Hugh Malone has taught in Mississippi at Pearl River Community College, William Carey University, the University of Southern Mississippi, and other institutions during his forty-six-year career in education. As curriculum…

Links from the show: * Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA * Connect with Theresa * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: Theresa Runstedtler is a scholar of African American history whose research examines Black popular culture, with a particular focus on the intersect…

Links from the show: * The Gendered and Colonial Lives of Gurkhas in Private Security: From Military to Market * Connect with Amanda * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: Dr Amanda Chisholm is a Senior Lecturer researching and teaching on gender and security across both War Studies and Defence Studies. She is also the lead diversi…

Links from the show: * Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination * https://rodserling.com/ * Rate the show About my guest: Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone was the bread and fishes of my early years and one of the major forces leading me to the fantastic as a favorite writing theme. Nick Parisi’s Rod Serling is a wonderfully written and meticulou…

Links from the show: * Moralities of Drone Violence * Towards an Armed Drone Code of Ethics * Love the show? Leave a review! About my guest: Christian Enemark is Professor of International Relations in the School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton. His research and teaching interests include global health po…

Links from the show: * Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies * Connect with Michael * Support the show * Drop a 5-star rating About my guest: Dr. Michael Lechuga researches and teaches Latina/o/x Studies Communication Studies, Rhetoric, Migration and Settler Colonialism Studies, and Affect Studies. He gradu…

Links from the show: * Connect with Lee * Cronin Lab * Follow Lee on Twitter * Drop a 5-star review About my guest: Leroy (Lee) Cronin is the Regius Professor of Chemistry in Glasgow. Since the age of 9 Lee has wanted to explore chemistry using electronics to control matter. His research spans many disciplines and has four main aims: the constructi…

Links from the show: * On Borrowed Fame: Money, Mysteries, and Corruption in the Entertainment World * Connect with Donald * Never miss an episode About my guest: Don Jeffries was a teenage volunteer with high profile Warren Report critic Mark Lane's Citizens Committee of Inquiry in the mid-1970s. His novel The Unreals was published in 2007, and be…

Links from the show: * Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life * Connect with Roger * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: Roger Highfield is science director at the Science Museum Group, a member of the Medical Research Council, and visiting professor at University College Londo…

Links from the show: * Cyberspace and Instability * Connect with James * Never miss an episode * Rate the show About my guest: James Shires is Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity Governance at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. He is also a nonresident fellow with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Counc…

Links from the show: * Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II * Connect Catherine * Rate the show * Never miss an episode About the show: Catherine “Kate” Musemeche is a graduate of the University of Texas McGovern Medical School in Houston, Texas and the University of Texas School of Law. Musemeche’s first b…

Links from the show: * Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II * Connect with Alex * Rate the show * Never miss an episode About my guest: Educated at Oxford University, Alex Kershaw is the widely-acclaimed, prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author of twelve books, including The Longest Winter, The B…