The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors

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Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality

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America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation

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Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism

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The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History

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Henry Clay: The Man Who Would Be President

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Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers

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The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion

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American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction

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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

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Truth Worth Telling

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Communism and the Conscience of the West

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The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center

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Edmund Burke: The First Conservative

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The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution

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Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

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The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest

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The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics

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The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy

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Joseph McCarthy: Re-Examining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator

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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

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America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics

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The Secret History of America: Classic Writings on Our Nation's Unknown Past and Inner Purpose

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Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

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The Occult in National Socialism: The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third Reich

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Ask the Question: Why We Must Demand Religious Clarity from Our Presidential Candidates

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The Gathering Storm: Secularism, Culture, and the Church

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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

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Purpose and Persuasion: The Power of Rhetoric in American Political History

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The Religion of American Greatness: What's Wrong with Christian Nationalism

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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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Up From Slavery

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett

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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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The Wright Brothers

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Sins of the Founding Father: George Washington, the Indigenous Tribes, and the Decisions that Shaped America’s Future

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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

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Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

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The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There

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1776

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

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The Untold History of the United States

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A Conversation with Charles Krauthammer

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Donald Trump Didn’t Hijack the G.O.P. He Understood It.: Right now, Republicans of all stripes — Ron DeSantis, J.D. Vance, Mike Pence, Glenn Youngkin — are trying to figure out how to channel the populist energies of Donald Trump into a winning political message. The struggle to achieve such a synthesis is the defining project on the American right today. Its outcome will determine the future of the Republican Party — and American politics. To understand what the post-Trump future of the G.O.P. will look like, it helps to have a clearer understanding of the party’s past — particularly the chapters that many conservatives prefer to forget. Traditional histories of American conservatism view Donald Trump’s election as an aberration in the lineage of the American right — an unprecedented populist rejection of the conservatism of Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley Jr. But Matthew Continetti’s new book “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism” flips that conventional h

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Why America is Facing its greatest "Moral Moment "since the Civil War: Peter Wehner on the accountability of the Republican Party for Trump: EPISODE 1640: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the New York Times and Atlantic columnist Peter Wehner about why the 2024 election may present America with its greatest moral moment since the Civil War

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Remembering Charles Krauthammer

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Christopher Lasch's Critique of Progress (w/ Chris Lehmann): Matt and Sam are joined by writer and editor Chris Lehmann to discuss the life and work of Christopher Lasch.

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The Death of American Politics: Peter Wehner on retribution, vengeance, forbearance and healing in Trump's America: EPISODE 1363: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to DEATH OF POLITICS author Peter Wehner about retribution, vengeance, forbearance and healing in Trump's America.

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Why This Conservative Wants a More Radical Republican Party: “Progressives understand that culture war means discrediting their opponents and weakening or destroying their institutions. Conservatives should approach the culture war with a similar realism,” Sohrab Ahmari writes. “To recognize that enmity is real is its own kind of moral duty.” Five years ago, Ahmari was a self-described “secular mainstream conservative” working for The Wall Street Journal. Now a contributing editor at The American Conservative and the recently departed op-ed editor at The New York Post, Ahmari has become a fierce critic of the Republican Party as it existed before the rise of Donald Trump, a champion of right-wing populist leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orban and a devout Catholic who believes social conservatives need to take a far more aggressive posture in the culture war. Ahmari may be singular, but he is not alone. His political evolution is a microcosm for the ways the American right as a whole h

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Can there be liberty in the Greater Middle East without democracy? Robert D. Kaplan on why Singapore offers a palatable political model for countries lying between the Mediterranean and China: EPISODE 1665: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Robert D. Kaplan, author of THE LOOM OF TIME, about why Singapore offers a palatable political model for countries in the "Greater Middle East"

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James Kirchick!: Award-winning journalist and author James Kirchick joins Zerlina on the show to discuss his new book, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, out now!

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Ryan M. Brooks, "Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022): An interview with Ryan M. Brooks

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The Closing of the American Conservative Mind: Peter Wehner on the nihilism of the evangelical right in America today

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A chat about the origin of conservatism: William F. Buckley Jr. was the foremost architect of the conservative movement that transformed American politics between the 1960s and the end of the century. When Buckley launched National Review in 1955, conservatism was a beleaguered, fringe...

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It's Time for the Media to Choose: Neutrality or Democracy?: “Making it harder to vote, and harder to understand what the party is really about — these are two parts of the same project” for the Republican Party, Jay Rosen writes. “The conflict with honest journalism is structural. To be its dwindling self, the G.O.P. has to also be at war with the press, unless of course the press folds under pressure.” Rosen is a professor of journalism at N.Y.U., author of the blog “PressThink,” and one of America’s sharpest contemporary media critics. And his argument is a simple one: The media’s implicit model of American politics — of two coequal parties with competing governing philosophies — is fundamentally broken. Today, the most important axis of political conflict is not between left and right, but between pro- and anti-democracy forces. The way Rosen sees it, the American mainstream press must make a choice: Will it double down on its commitment to detached, nonpartisan neutrality? Or wi

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Not In Kansas Any More: This week on the podcast, we put Putin in his place, D.C. McAllister on that Charlotte mayor and the writer we’d all like to write like. Then, dean of all pundits Charles Krauthammer stops by to discuss his new book “Things That Matter: Three Decades...

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The Active Voice: Richard Hanania is seeking ‘enlightened centrism’

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Why 1968 was the year that broke American politics and how this could be repeated in 2024: Luke Nichter on 1968, the year that American politics got broken by economic and cultural upheaval

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Anne Applebaum on What Liberals Misunderstand About Authoritarianism: The experience of reading Hannah Arendt’s 1951 classic “The Origins of Totalitarianism” in the year 2022 is a disorienting one. Although Arendt is writing primarily about Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, her descriptions often capture aspects of our present moment more clearly than those of us living through it can ever hope to. Arendt writes of entire populations who “had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.” She describes “the masses’ escape from reality” as “a verdict against the world in which they are forced to live and in which they cannot exist.” She points out that in societies riddled with elite hypocrisy, “it seemed revolutionary to admit cruelty, disregard of human values, and general amorality, because this at least destroyed the duplicity upon which the existing society seemed to rest.” It’s

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Fred Trump and the KKK: Linda Gordon; the Right's Stealth Plan for America: Nancy MacLean

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The Social and Psychological Meaning of Trump and the Republican Convention.: A personal and very biased story of what Trump represents by a very worried Psychologist!

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Tom Flynn - Secular Humanism versus . . . Atheism?: Tom Flynn is Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism, and the Editor of Free Inquiry magazine. A journalist, novelist, entertainer, and folklorist, Flynn is the author of numerous articles for Free Inquiry, many addressing church-state...

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Daniel J. Kapust, “Flattery and the History of Political Thought: That Glib and Oily Art” (Cambridge UP, 2018): Daniel Kapust‘s book, Flattery and the History of Political Thought: That Glib and Oily Art (Cambridge University Press, 2018), is a rich and fascinating exploration of political thought through the complex lens of the question or concept of flattery.

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The History of the History of the Right (w/ Kim Phillips-Fein): Matt and Sam are joined by historian Kim Phillips-Fein to discuss the "state of the field" of historical studies of American conservatism. How has the study of the right changed since 2016? And how should it orient itself to 2024?

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Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon on the End of American Hegemony

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How will Donald Trump’s victory impact China and U.S.-China relations?

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Sohrab Ahmari On The Failures Of Liberalism

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James Kirchick: The Hidden History of Gay Washington: Join us for a talk with author James Kirchick and the story that could transform our understanding of American history.

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What's Useful and Correct About Critical Race Theory? (w/ Randall Kennedy)

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TPS61 NEW RIGHTS | Curt Mills

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Richard H. King, “Arendt and America” (U of Chicago, 2015): Richard H. King is Emeritus Professor of American and Canadian Studies at The University of Nottingham. His book Arendt and America (University of Chicago, 2015) is an intellectual biography and transnational synthesis of ideas and explores how the Ger...

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How Washington’s top book critic reads between 2024’s political lines: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carlos Lozada reads political books so that you don’t have to. Here’s what he learned from his close reading of Trump, Biden, Obama and more, and what it reveals about the future of our politics.