Ian Fleming heroicized for all the world the British intelligence agent in James Bond. In his new book Ian Fleming: The Complete Man, renowned biographer Nicholas Shakespeare digs into the legend of Fleming himself. Like his most famous character, Fleming’s life was colorfully marked by high-stakes intelligence, alcohol, and dalliances with women. Yet Fleming was tormented rather than buoyed by his literary success. Shakespeare joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the turbulent life of the man who gave the world 007.
","summary":"Ian Fleming heroicized for all the world the British intelligence agent in James Bond. In his new book Ian Fleming: The Complete Man, renowned biographer Nicholas Shakespeare digs into the legend of Fleming himself. Like his most famous character, Fleming’s life was colorfully marked by high-stakes intelligence, alcohol, and dalliances with women. Yet Fleming was tormented rather than buoyed by his literary success. Shakespeare joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the turbulent life of the man who gave the world 007.","date_published":"2024-04-26T09:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/f7d2d23d-37f2-44b7-bd74-c3026e0525da.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26570169,"duration_in_seconds":1660}]},{"id":"85e03c39-6652-4285-a1e6-6acbc96dabab","title":"Episode 138: Seth D. Kaplan on America’s Fragile Neighborhoods","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/138","content_text":"In surveying dysfunction across America, the question arises: Is the source of the trouble at the local or the national level? Seth D. Kaplan has shifted his analytical gaze from fragile nations abroad to examine the fragility of his home country. He believes America’s problems from health to politics are downstream of individuals becoming increasingly disconnected, neighborhood by neighborhood. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time.","content_html":"In surveying dysfunction across America, the question arises: Is the source of the trouble at the local or the national level? Seth D. Kaplan has shifted his analytical gaze from fragile nations abroad to examine the fragility of his home country. He believes America’s problems from health to politics are downstream of individuals becoming increasingly disconnected, neighborhood by neighborhood. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time.
","summary":"In surveying dysfunction across America, the question arises: Is the source of the trouble at the local or the national level? Seth D. Kaplan has shifted his analytical gaze from fragile nations abroad to examine the fragility of his home country. He believes America’s problems from health to politics are downstream of individuals becoming increasingly disconnected, neighborhood by neighborhood. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time.","date_published":"2024-04-19T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/85e03c39-6652-4285-a1e6-6acbc96dabab.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30326815,"duration_in_seconds":1895}]},{"id":"a43dd415-bc7e-4f4d-b6b7-089065ea5863","title":"Episode 137: Leah Hunt-Hendrix on the Power of Solidarity","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/137","content_text":"Solidarity has been at the root of social change throughout history, bringing people together across their differences to challenge injustice within societies. In their new book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor examine the sociological concept that is at the heart of social transformation. Hunt-Hendrix joins host Richard Aldous to share her thoughts on both the concept and the social movements with which it is intimately linked.","content_html":"Solidarity has been at the root of social change throughout history, bringing people together across their differences to challenge injustice within societies. In their new book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor examine the sociological concept that is at the heart of social transformation. Hunt-Hendrix joins host Richard Aldous to share her thoughts on both the concept and the social movements with which it is intimately linked.
","summary":"Solidarity has been at the root of social change throughout history, bringing people together across their differences to challenge injustice within societies. In their new book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor examine the sociological concept that is at the heart of social transformation. Hunt-Hendrix joins host Richard Aldous to share her thoughts on both the concept and the social movements with which it is intimately linked.","date_published":"2024-04-17T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/a43dd415-bc7e-4f4d-b6b7-089065ea5863.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25974181,"duration_in_seconds":1623}]},{"id":"be3d7e42-3f48-4ff3-8e12-bb9daa0349c0","title":"Episode 136: Paul Starobin on the Russian Exiles","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/136","content_text":"There are now over a million Russians living in exile, spurred on by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Unable to safely oppose their own government at home, they often find themselves subject to harassment and disdain as immigrants. In his new book, Putin’s Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia, Paul Starobin joins host Richard Aldous for a look at the hopes and dreams of those Russians living abroad, and to explain why he thinks more and more of them will “take up the gun.”","content_html":"There are now over a million Russians living in exile, spurred on by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Unable to safely oppose their own government at home, they often find themselves subject to harassment and disdain as immigrants. In his new book, Putin’s Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia, Paul Starobin joins host Richard Aldous for a look at the hopes and dreams of those Russians living abroad, and to explain why he thinks more and more of them will “take up the gun.”
","summary":"There are now over a million Russians living in exile, spurred on by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Unable to safely oppose their own government at home, they often find themselves subject to harassment and disdain as immigrants. In his new book, Putin’s Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia, Paul Starobin joins host Richard Aldous for a look at the hopes and dreams of those Russians living abroad, and to explain why he thinks more and more of them will “take up the gun.”","date_published":"2024-03-22T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/be3d7e42-3f48-4ff3-8e12-bb9daa0349c0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28051850,"duration_in_seconds":1753}]},{"id":"461a7a7f-73f9-4c09-b544-c05ca5653561","title":"Episode 135: Ian Buruma on the Relevance of Spinoza","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/135","content_text":"Rejected in official circles in his day and embraced in modern times by a motley array of admirers, Spinoza was in many ways ahead of his time. His commitment to truth, universal principles, and freedom lie at the heart of Western liberal thinking. As those ideas come under attack on both the left and the right, Spinoza’s philosophical thinking is as relevant as ever. Ian Buruma joins Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah.","content_html":"Rejected in official circles in his day and embraced in modern times by a motley array of admirers, Spinoza was in many ways ahead of his time. His commitment to truth, universal principles, and freedom lie at the heart of Western liberal thinking. As those ideas come under attack on both the left and the right, Spinoza’s philosophical thinking is as relevant as ever. Ian Buruma joins Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah.
","summary":"Rejected in official circles in his day and embraced in modern times by a motley array of admirers, Spinoza was in many ways ahead of his time. His commitment to truth, universal principles, and freedom lie at the heart of Western liberal thinking. As those ideas come under attack on both the left and the right, Spinoza’s philosophical thinking is as relevant as ever. Ian Buruma joins Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah.\r\n","date_published":"2024-03-14T09:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/461a7a7f-73f9-4c09-b544-c05ca5653561.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25496315,"duration_in_seconds":1593}]},{"id":"dcaa2a48-a2c0-4bac-9631-a2d1547e2589","title":"Episode 134: Maria Popova on Ukraine and Russia’s Diverging Paths","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/134","content_text":"Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Russia not only embarked on very different political paths at home, but they viewed the future of their relationship in starkly divergent terms. In Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States, authors Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel show how Russia’s determination to control an independent Ukraine only pushed it further away. Popova joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how the varying cultural and political realities in the two countries ultimately led to today’s geopolitical clash.","content_html":"Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Russia not only embarked on very different political paths at home, but they viewed the future of their relationship in starkly divergent terms. In Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States, authors Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel show how Russia’s determination to control an independent Ukraine only pushed it further away. Popova joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how the varying cultural and political realities in the two countries ultimately led to today’s geopolitical clash.
","summary":"Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Russia not only embarked on very different political paths at home, but they viewed the future of their relationship in starkly divergent terms. In Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States, authors Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel show how Russia’s determination to control an independent Ukraine only pushed it further away. Popova joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how the varying cultural and political realities in the two countries ultimately led to today’s geopolitical clash.","date_published":"2024-02-29T20:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/dcaa2a48-a2c0-4bac-9631-a2d1547e2589.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26700837,"duration_in_seconds":1668}]},{"id":"bce23cf1-48e3-4dd2-8d62-3fa517bbd786","title":"Episode 133: Lorraine Daston on the History of Scientific Collaboration","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/133","content_text":"Large threats to the well-being of humankind such as the pandemic and climate change have cemented the notion that scientists across the globe naturally work together to solve the world’s most pressing problems. In Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate, historian of science Lorraine Daston traces the trajectory of such cooperation, noting that along the way scientists have as often been competitors as collaborators. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the history of “the scientific community.”","content_html":"Large threats to the well-being of humankind such as the pandemic and climate change have cemented the notion that scientists across the globe naturally work together to solve the world’s most pressing problems. In Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate, historian of science Lorraine Daston traces the trajectory of such cooperation, noting that along the way scientists have as often been competitors as collaborators. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the history of “the scientific community.”
","summary":"Large threats to the well-being of humankind such as the pandemic and climate change have cemented the notion that scientists across the globe naturally work together to solve the world’s most pressing problems. In Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate, historian of science Lorraine Daston traces the trajectory of such cooperation, noting that along the way scientists have as often been competitors as collaborators. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the history of “the scientific community.”","date_published":"2024-02-23T10:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/bce23cf1-48e3-4dd2-8d62-3fa517bbd786.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27527733,"duration_in_seconds":1720}]},{"id":"43dc59b1-a915-4da9-9a57-f83c68a3f435","title":"Episode 132: David Reynolds on Winston Churchill","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/132","content_text":"Amidst all the positive and negative ink dedicated to Winston Churchill, Cambridge emeritus professor of international history David Reynolds offers a new dimension. He places the leader for whom history was determined by “great men” among the other greats who both inspired and enervated him. Reynolds joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his latest book, Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him.","content_html":"Amidst all the positive and negative ink dedicated to Winston Churchill, Cambridge emeritus professor of international history David Reynolds offers a new dimension. He places the leader for whom history was determined by “great men” among the other greats who both inspired and enervated him. Reynolds joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his latest book, Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him.
","summary":"Amidst all the positive and negative ink dedicated to Winston Churchill, Cambridge emeritus professor of international history David Reynolds offers a new dimension. He places the leader for whom history was determined by “great men” among the other greats who both inspired and enervated him. Reynolds joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his latest book, Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him.","date_published":"2024-02-15T22:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/43dc59b1-a915-4da9-9a57-f83c68a3f435.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":33528372,"duration_in_seconds":2095}]},{"id":"5326f813-95f9-4ea3-acac-751a6ae529ef","title":"Episode 131: Joshua Green on the Populism of the Democratic Party","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/131","content_text":"The remarkable shift in the economic ideas at the heart of the Democratic Party—from the embrace of neoliberalism in the ’90s to the left-wing populism that Joe Biden accommodates today—traces its origins to the 2008 financial crisis. Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders and AOC after her, put the economic frustrations of ordinary Americans at the heart of her policies, making fashionable a populism of the left that was not unlike Donald Trump’s brand of it on the right. Journalist Joshua Green joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the rise of those who helped reorient the Democratic Party as told in his new book, The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics.","content_html":"The remarkable shift in the economic ideas at the heart of the Democratic Party—from the embrace of neoliberalism in the ’90s to the left-wing populism that Joe Biden accommodates today—traces its origins to the 2008 financial crisis. Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders and AOC after her, put the economic frustrations of ordinary Americans at the heart of her policies, making fashionable a populism of the left that was not unlike Donald Trump’s brand of it on the right. Journalist Joshua Green joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the rise of those who helped reorient the Democratic Party as told in his new book, The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics.
","summary":"The remarkable shift in the economic ideas at the heart of the Democratic Party—from the embrace of neoliberalism in the ’90s to the left-wing populism that Joe Biden accommodates today—traces its origins to the 2008 financial crisis. Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders and AOC after her, put the economic frustrations of ordinary Americans at the heart of her policies, making fashionable a populism of the left that was not unlike Donald Trump’s brand of it on the right. Journalist Joshua Green joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the rise of those who helped reorient the Democratic Party as told in his new book, The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics.","date_published":"2024-02-08T18:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/5326f813-95f9-4ea3-acac-751a6ae529ef.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32715306,"duration_in_seconds":2044}]},{"id":"4de16e81-72dd-458f-a281-93f8e2e78540","title":"Episode 130: Azam Ahmed on Mexico’s Violent Cartels","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/130","content_text":"For tens of thousands of people, living in Mexico today means living in a country where criminal violence begets state-sponsored violence, and where law and justice have so failed ordinary citizens that they often take matters into their own hands. In his new book Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance, Azam Ahmed chronicles the tale of a mother whose desperation led her to do just that. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss those who live at the mercy of the drug cartels.","content_html":"For tens of thousands of people, living in Mexico today means living in a country where criminal violence begets state-sponsored violence, and where law and justice have so failed ordinary citizens that they often take matters into their own hands. In his new book Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance, Azam Ahmed chronicles the tale of a mother whose desperation led her to do just that. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss those who live at the mercy of the drug cartels.
","summary":"For tens of thousands of people, living in Mexico today means living in a country where criminal violence begets state-sponsored violence, and where law and justice have so failed ordinary citizens that they often take matters into their own hands. In his new book Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance, Azam Ahmed chronicles the tale of a mother whose desperation led her to do just that. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss those who live at the mercy of the drug cartels.","date_published":"2024-02-01T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/4de16e81-72dd-458f-a281-93f8e2e78540.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27730854,"duration_in_seconds":1733}]},{"id":"1e893b2c-5adf-4424-8460-71ac626cd18c","title":"Episode 129: Raymond Arsenault on John Lewis","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/129","content_text":"Freedom Rider and Congressman John Lewis was widely viewed as a saint no less than a civil rights icon. How to capture the full humanity of such a legendary figure, whose life was intertwined with some of America’s lowest lows and highest highs? Civil rights historian Raymond Arsenault does just that in his new biography, John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the man he believes to be “one of the most extraordinary people in American history.”","content_html":"Freedom Rider and Congressman John Lewis was widely viewed as a saint no less than a civil rights icon. How to capture the full humanity of such a legendary figure, whose life was intertwined with some of America’s lowest lows and highest highs? Civil rights historian Raymond Arsenault does just that in his new biography, John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the man he believes to be “one of the most extraordinary people in American history.”
","summary":"Freedom Rider and Congressman John Lewis was widely viewed as a saint no less than a civil rights icon. How to capture the full humanity of such a legendary figure, whose life was intertwined with some of America’s lowest lows and highest highs? Civil rights historian Raymond Arsenault does just that in his new biography, John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the man he believes to be “one of the most extraordinary people in American history.”","date_published":"2024-01-24T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/1e893b2c-5adf-4424-8460-71ac626cd18c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27405267,"duration_in_seconds":1712}]},{"id":"26a60e8e-1714-45ed-a5ce-f16b6e337030","title":"Episode 128: Joseph S. Nye Jr. on Postwar America","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/128","content_text":"Joseph Nye’s prominent dual roles as policymaker and foreign affairs academic have rendered him one of the most important observers of U.S. foreign policy since World War II. In his new book, A Life in the American Century, the statesman-scholar looks back on the last century’s events from a personal and historical perspective. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss, among other things, the erosion of U.S. soft power in the last two decades, the diverging paths U.S. foreign policy could take following the next presidential election, and the country’s enduring resilience.","content_html":"Joseph Nye’s prominent dual roles as policymaker and foreign affairs academic have rendered him one of the most important observers of U.S. foreign policy since World War II. In his new book, A Life in the American Century, the statesman-scholar looks back on the last century’s events from a personal and historical perspective. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss, among other things, the erosion of U.S. soft power in the last two decades, the diverging paths U.S. foreign policy could take following the next presidential election, and the country’s enduring resilience.
","summary":"Joseph Nye’s prominent dual roles as policymaker and foreign affairs academic have rendered him one of the most important observers of U.S. foreign policy since World War II. In his new book, A Life in the American Century, the statesman-scholar looks back on the last century’s events from a personal and historical perspective. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss, among other things, the erosion of U.S. soft power in the last two decades, the diverging paths U.S. foreign policy could take following the next presidential election, and the country’s enduring resilience.","date_published":"2024-01-17T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/26a60e8e-1714-45ed-a5ce-f16b6e337030.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26125891,"duration_in_seconds":1632}]},{"id":"c590576f-3fd0-47c3-ad97-878ddf05a297","title":"Episode 127: Ganesh Sitaraman on Helping Flying Soar","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/127","content_text":"Long gone are the days of steak dinners, piano bars, and free alcohol on flights—not to mention widely expanding markets and strong competition. Vanderbilt Law professor Ganesh Sitaraman looks to the deregulation of the airline industry in the 1970s to explain the relatively dismal state of flying today. In his new book, Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It, he points to a host of policy options left on the table that could help. Sitaraman joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how Congress should get creative in its aviation policy, and why it should do so well in advance of the inevitable next crisis to hit the industry.","content_html":"Long gone are the days of steak dinners, piano bars, and free alcohol on flights—not to mention widely expanding markets and strong competition. Vanderbilt Law professor Ganesh Sitaraman looks to the deregulation of the airline industry in the 1970s to explain the relatively dismal state of flying today. In his new book, Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It, he points to a host of policy options left on the table that could help. Sitaraman joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how Congress should get creative in its aviation policy, and why it should do so well in advance of the inevitable next crisis to hit the industry.
","summary":"Long gone are the days of steak dinners, piano bars, and free alcohol on flights—not to mention widely expanding markets and strong competition. Vanderbilt Law professor Ganesh Sitamaran looks to the deregulation of the airline industry in the 1970s to explain the relatively dismal state of flying today. In his new book, Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It, he points to a host of policy options left on the table that could help. Sitaraman joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how Congress should get creative in its aviation policy, and why it should do so well in advance of the inevitable next crisis to hit the industry.","date_published":"2024-01-03T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/c590576f-3fd0-47c3-ad97-878ddf05a297.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26876542,"duration_in_seconds":1679}]},{"id":"1a96c0f6-6ccb-4445-8362-3de4e895ed2e","title":"Episode 126: Nikki Vargas on the Roads Taken","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/126","content_text":"Travel is exhilarating and enlightening, but what happens when it becomes an escape from things that really matter? For acclaimed travel writer Nikki Vargas, travel has been her work, her dreams—and also her crutch. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book Call You When I Land, a memoir of her winding adventures that ultimately do have a destination.","content_html":"Travel is exhilarating and enlightening, but what happens when it becomes an escape from things that really matter? For acclaimed travel writer Nikki Vargas, travel has been her work, her dreams—and also her crutch. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book Call You When I Land, a memoir of her winding adventures that ultimately do have a destination.
","summary":"Travel is exhilarating and enlightening, but what happens when it becomes an escape from things that really matter? For acclaimed travel writer Nikki Vargas, travel has been her work, her dreams—and also her crutch. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book Call You When I Land, a memoir of her winding adventures that ultimately do have a destination.","date_published":"2023-12-18T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/1a96c0f6-6ccb-4445-8362-3de4e895ed2e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27672760,"duration_in_seconds":1729}]},{"id":"17c27725-c519-4c5a-8021-035383797440","title":"Episode 125: Daniel Schulman on the Jewish Titans","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/125","content_text":"Rockefeller, Morgan, and Carnegie are household names, yet much less known are the Jewish “money kings” who came to America in the 19th century. In his new book The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America, Daniel Shulman tells the story of the poor Jewish immigrants whose trajectories embody the American dream. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss their influence from banking to infrastructure, and their equally influential philanthropic endeavors that “helped build the cornerstone of American Jewish life in America.”","content_html":"Rockefeller, Morgan, and Carnegie are household names, yet much less known are the Jewish “money kings” who came to America in the 19th century. In his new book The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America, Daniel Shulman tells the story of the poor Jewish immigrants whose trajectories embody the American dream. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss their influence from banking to infrastructure, and their equally influential philanthropic endeavors that “helped build the cornerstone of American Jewish life in America.”
","summary":"Rockefeller, Morgan, and Carnegie are household names, yet much less known are the Jewish “money kings” who came to America in the 19th century. In his new book The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America, Daniel Shulman tells the story of the poor Jewish immigrants whose trajectories embody the American dream. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss their influence from banking to infrastructure, and their equally influential philanthropic endeavors that “helped build the cornerstone of American Jewish life in America.”","date_published":"2023-12-05T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/17c27725-c519-4c5a-8021-035383797440.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27834928,"duration_in_seconds":1739}]},{"id":"8e32432f-65aa-4ae8-8265-5f64a94cd77f","title":"Episode 124: John Coates on the New Concentration of Financial Power","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/124","content_text":"The American economy is once again experiencing a concentration of financial power in a few hands, but this time around the actors are much less familiar. As John Coates shows in his new book, The Problem of 12: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything, the prevalence of index funds and private equity funds in public investments has grown exponentially in recent years. Coates joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how the small number of companies managing so much of Americans’ wealth poses risks both to economic stability and American democracy.","content_html":"The American economy is once again experiencing a concentration of financial power in a few hands, but this time around the actors are much less familiar. As John Coates shows in his new book, The Problem of 12: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything, the prevalence of index funds and private equity funds in public investments has grown exponentially in recent years. Coates joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how the small number of companies managing so much of Americans’ wealth poses risks both to economic stability and American democracy.
","summary":"The American economy is once again experiencing a concentration of financial power in a few hands, but this time around the actors are much less familiar. As John Coates shows in his new book, The Problem of 12: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything, the prevalence of index funds and private equity funds in public investments has grown exponentially in recent years. Coates joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how the small number of companies managing so much of Americans’ wealth poses risks both to economic stability and American democracy.","date_published":"2023-11-29T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/8e32432f-65aa-4ae8-8265-5f64a94cd77f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27013220,"duration_in_seconds":1688}]},{"id":"9586aa6c-d603-422f-b132-0f3227999e27","title":"Episode 123: Laurence Jurdem on TR and Henry Cabot Lodge","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/123","content_text":"The ambitious, larger-than-life character of Theodore Roosevelt is the stuff of legend. Outside of his connection with the League of Nations, much less is known about Roosevelt’s closest friend, Henry Cabot Lodge. Equally abundant in intellectual gifts, Lodge helped launch to the presidency the man whose vision he shared of a United States divinely ordained to spread prosperity and peace throughout the globe. Laurence Jurdem joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the personal and political friendship of the two men as revealed in his new book, The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History.","content_html":"The ambitious, larger-than-life character of Theodore Roosevelt is the stuff of legend. Outside of his connection with the League of Nations, much less is known about Roosevelt’s closest friend, Henry Cabot Lodge. Equally abundant in intellectual gifts, Lodge helped launch to the presidency the man whose vision he shared of a United States divinely ordained to spread prosperity and peace throughout the globe. Laurence Jurdem joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the personal and political friendship of the two men as revealed in his new book, The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History.
","summary":"The ambitious, larger-than-life character of Theodore Roosevelt is the stuff of legend. Outside of his connection with the League of Nations, much less is known about Roosevelt’s closest friend, Henry Cabot Lodge. Equally abundant in intellectual gifts, Lodge helped launch to the presidency the man whose vision he shared of a United States divinely ordained to spread prosperity and peace throughout the globe. Laurence Jurdem joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the personal and political friendship of the two men as revealed in his new book, The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History.","date_published":"2023-11-15T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/9586aa6c-d603-422f-b132-0f3227999e27.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27463784,"duration_in_seconds":1716}]},{"id":"ea9fe3fe-050e-4e2e-9561-d1313d09b2f2","title":"Episode 122: Thomas Graham on Seeing Russia Clearly","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/122","content_text":"Was there a moment after the Cold War when the United States “lost” Russia? Thomas Graham, senior director for Russia on the National Security Council under President George W. Bush, looks back to the period between 1991 and 2022 to grapple with what might have been—or, better, what was never meant to be. He joins host Richard Aldous to assess what the United States got wrong about Russia and to discuss his new book, Getting Russia Right.","content_html":"Was there a moment after the Cold War when the United States “lost” Russia? Thomas Graham, senior director for Russia on the National Security Council under President George W. Bush, looks back to the period between 1991 and 2022 to grapple with what might have been—or, better, what was never meant to be. He joins host Richard Aldous to assess what the United States got wrong about Russia and to discuss his new book, Getting Russia Right.
","summary":"Was there a moment after the Cold War when the United States “lost” Russia? Thomas Graham, senior director for Russia on the National Security Council under President George W. Bush, looks back to the period between 1991 and 2022 to grapple with what might have been—or, better, what was never meant to be. He joins host Richard Aldous to assess what the United States got wrong about Russia and to discuss his new book, Getting Russia Right.","date_published":"2023-11-08T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/ea9fe3fe-050e-4e2e-9561-d1313d09b2f2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27026327,"duration_in_seconds":1689}]},{"id":"517380aa-9b48-498d-800f-a51bda89321a","title":"Episode 121: Uri Kaufman on the Yom Kippur War","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/121","content_text":"The October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel were launched fifty years and a day after the last great surprise assault on the country by its Arab neighbors. At the time of the Yom Kippur War, Israel was not only much poorer and weaker than it is today, but it was completely dependent for military aid on a United States preoccupied with oil and the Soviet threat. Uri Kaufman chronicles the riveting details of this larger-than-life tale at a moment when existential threats to the State of Israel resonate more than ever. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East.\n\nThis interview was recorded on October 20, 2023.","content_html":"The October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel were launched fifty years and a day after the last great surprise assault on the country by its Arab neighbors. At the time of the Yom Kippur War, Israel was not only much poorer and weaker than it is today, but it was completely dependent for military aid on a United States preoccupied with oil and the Soviet threat. Uri Kaufman chronicles the riveting details of this larger-than-life tale at a moment when existential threats to the State of Israel resonate more than ever. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East.
\n\nThis interview was recorded on October 20, 2023.
","summary":"The October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel were launched fifty years and a day after the last great surprise assault on the country by its Arab neighbors. At the time of the Yom Kippur War, Israel was not only much poorer and weaker than it is today, but it was completely dependent for military aid on a United States preoccupied with oil and the Soviet threat. Uri Kaufman chronicles the riveting details of this larger-than-life tale at a moment when existential threats to the State of Israel resonate more than ever. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East.\r\n\r\nThis interview was recorded on October 20, 2023","date_published":"2023-11-01T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/517380aa-9b48-498d-800f-a51bda89321a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30772344,"duration_in_seconds":1923}]},{"id":"fd9fe3b8-0c86-41b2-a5cc-c04320d9449e","title":"Episode 120: Katherine Turk on NOW’s Lesser-Known Feminists","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/120","content_text":"Betty Friedan and many of her NOW co-founders have become household names, but what of the women who built on their pioneering work? In her new book, The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America, Katherine Turk looks at the second-wave feminists who broadened the movement to include all women. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss lesser-known figures of the time, along with the proponents and antagonists of their all-important goal, the Equal Rights Amendment. \n\nApologies to our listeners for any audio hiccups this week.","content_html":"Betty Friedan and many of her NOW co-founders have become household names, but what of the women who built on their pioneering work? In her new book, The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America, Katherine Turk looks at the second-wave feminists who broadened the movement to include all women. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss lesser-known figures of the time, along with the proponents and antagonists of their all-important goal, the Equal Rights Amendment.
\n\nApologies to our listeners for any audio hiccups this week.
","summary":"Betty Friedan and many of her NOW co-founders have become household names, but what of the women who built on their pioneering work? In her new book The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America, Katherine Turk looks at the second-wave feminists who broadened the movement to include all women. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss lesser-known figures of the time, along with the proponents and antagonists of their all-important goal, the Equal Rights Amendment. Apologies to our listeners for any audio hiccups.","date_published":"2023-10-25T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/fd9fe3b8-0c86-41b2-a5cc-c04320d9449e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26099565,"duration_in_seconds":1631}]},{"id":"69bc2deb-87cb-467d-ae68-fe3b2380e4c5","title":"Episode 119: Alexandra Hudson on Civility","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/119","content_text":"Engaging with those who are different from us is essential to democratic life and politics. Alexandra Hudson argues that in order to improve the tenor of our interactions we must cultivate civility, which unlike mere politeness entails a respect for others as our moral equals. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves.","content_html":"Engaging with those who are different from us is essential to democratic life and politics. Alexandra Hudson argues that in order to improve the tenor of our interactions we must cultivate civility, which unlike mere politeness entails a respect for others as our moral equals. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves.
","summary":"Engaging with those who are different from us is essential to democratic life and politics. Alexandra Hudson argues that in order to improve the tenor of our interactions we must cultivate civility, which unlike mere politeness entails a respect for others as our moral equals. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves.","date_published":"2023-10-18T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/69bc2deb-87cb-467d-ae68-fe3b2380e4c5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25437513,"duration_in_seconds":1589}]},{"id":"c579ba50-c503-4982-a49a-8190c46cccba","title":"Episode 118: Joseph Horowitz on the Art-Freedom Nexus","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/118","content_text":"Does the ability to produce great art depend upon living in a free country? For a time the rhetoric emanating from the United States—including from President John F. Kennedy himself—suggested it did. Classical music expert Joseph Horowitz delves into the sources of this Cold War-era hyperbole in his new book, The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss Soviet-era cultural achievements, cultural diplomacy, and more.","content_html":"Does the ability to produce great art depend upon living in a free country? For a time the rhetoric emanating from the United States—including from President John F. Kennedy himself—suggested it did. Classical music expert Joseph Horowitz delves into the sources of this Cold War-era hyperbole in his new book, The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss Soviet-era cultural achievements, cultural diplomacy, and more.
","summary":"Does the ability to produce great art depend upon living in a free country? For a time the rhetoric emanating from the United States—including from President John F. Kennedy himself—suggested it did. Classical music expert Joseph Horowitz delves into the sources of this Cold War-era hyperbole in his new book, The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss Soviet-era cultural achievements, cultural diplomacy, and more.\r\n","date_published":"2023-10-11T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/c579ba50-c503-4982-a49a-8190c46cccba.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29303222,"duration_in_seconds":1831}]},{"id":"373febda-a2f2-48ab-a960-fc09c5e048df","title":"Episode 117: Yascha Mounk on the False Promise of Identity Ideology","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/117","content_text":"Across America, from college campuses to corporate boardrooms, a set of ideas has taken hold affirming race, gender, and sexual orientation as the essential prisms through which we experience life. In his new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, academic and writer Yascha Mounk explores the personal and political dimensions of this illiberal worldview. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the intolerant rigidity of this new ideology, and the reasons why it will not lead to either personal fulfillment or social justice.","content_html":"Across America, from college campuses to corporate boardrooms, a set of ideas has taken hold affirming race, gender, and sexual orientation as the essential prisms through which we experience life. In his new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, academic and writer Yascha Mounk explores the personal and political dimensions of this illiberal worldview. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the intolerant rigidity of this new ideology, and the reasons why it will not lead to either personal fulfillment or social justice.
","summary":"Across America, from college campuses to corporate boardrooms, a set of ideas has taken hold affirming race, gender, and sexual orientation as the essential prisms through which we experience life. In his new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, academic and writer Yascha Mounk explores the personal and political dimensions of this illiberal worldview. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the intolerant rigidity of this new ideology, and the reasons why it will not lead to either personal fulfillment or social justice.","date_published":"2023-10-04T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/373febda-a2f2-48ab-a960-fc09c5e048df.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29987830,"duration_in_seconds":1874}]},{"id":"a6607823-c92e-4e15-9e75-3bea9a013d34","title":"Episode 116: Michael S. Roth on Loving Learning","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/116","content_text":"In an era when machines are progressing from thinking for us to learning for us, it’s worth asking what exactly the purpose of learning is. Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University, looks back to students of some of history’s great inculcators to find a more foundational understanding beyond simply the accumulation of knowledge. He sits down with host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, The Student: A Short History, and how becoming an adult, securing one’s freedom, and developing empathy are all deeply intertwined with the intellectual journey both inside and outside of school.","content_html":"In an era when machines are progressing from thinking for us to learning for us, it’s worth asking what exactly the purpose of learning is. Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University, looks back to students of some of history’s great inculcators to find a more foundational understanding beyond simply the accumulation of knowledge. He sits down with host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, The Student: A Short History, and how becoming an adult, securing one’s freedom, and developing empathy are all deeply intertwined with the intellectual journey both inside and outside of school.
","summary":"In an era when machines are progressing from thinking for us to learning for us, it’s worth asking what exactly the purpose of learning is. Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University, looks back to students of some of history’s great inculcators to find a more foundational understanding beyond simply the accumulation of knowledge. He sits down with host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, The Student: A Short History, and how becoming an adult, securing one’s freedom, and developing empathy are all deeply intertwined with the intellectual journey both inside and outside of school.","date_published":"2023-09-27T11:30:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/a6607823-c92e-4e15-9e75-3bea9a013d34.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27799825,"duration_in_seconds":1737}]},{"id":"3a5e60c0-ec24-44e7-b9b0-cd34da6075a4","title":"Episode 115: Timothy Garton Ash on What It Means to Be European","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/115","content_text":"“Bookstack” returns with renowned Oxford professor of European studies Timothy Garton Ash. In his latest book, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, Ash chronicles the spread of freedom across Europe since 1945 through his personal perspective as an “English European.” He sits down with host Richard Aldous to share his thoughts about the historical and cultural ties that bind across the diverse continent.","content_html":"“Bookstack” returns with renowned Oxford professor of European studies Timothy Garton Ash. In his latest book, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, Ash chronicles the spread of freedom across Europe since 1945 through his personal perspective as an “English European.” He sits down with host Richard Aldous to share his thoughts about the historical and cultural ties that bind across the diverse continent.
","summary":"“Bookstack” returns with renowned Oxford professor of European studies Timothy Garton Ash. In his latest book, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, Ash chronicles the spread of freedom across Europe since 1945 through his personal perspective as an “English European.” He sits down with host Richard Aldous to share his thoughts about the historical and cultural ties that bind across the diverse continent.","date_published":"2023-09-13T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/3a5e60c0-ec24-44e7-b9b0-cd34da6075a4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30206421,"duration_in_seconds":1887}]},{"id":"d89c4146-d631-4774-b884-259fb62fb1d6","title":"Episode 114: Tara Isabella Burton on Self Creation across the Ages","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/114","content_text":"Could there really be a straight line between the self-made person of talent and the branded personality made famous by reality TV and the internet? In Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians, Tara Isabella Burton shows how the curating of an “authentic” self so characteristic of today is in fact rooted in a deep human instinct that values the uniqueness of each individual. She sits down with host Richard Aldous to discuss the latest of her books that peer into the soul of contemporary society with an eye to history, culture, theology, and economics.","content_html":"Could there really be a straight line between the self-made person of talent and the branded personality made famous by reality TV and the internet? In Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians, Tara Isabella Burton shows how the curating of an “authentic” self so characteristic of today is in fact rooted in a deep human instinct that values the uniqueness of each individual. She sits down with host Richard Aldous to discuss the latest of her books that peer into the soul of contemporary society with an eye to history, culture, theology, and economics.
","summary":"Could there really be a straight line between the self-made person of talent and the branded personality made famous by reality TV and the internet? In Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians, Tara Isabella Burton shows how the curating of an “authentic” self so characteristic of today is in fact rooted in a deep human instinct that values the uniqueness of each individual. She sits down with host Richard Aldous to discuss the latest of her books that peer into the soul of contemporary society with an eye to history, culture, theology, and economics.","date_published":"2023-07-27T11:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/d89c4146-d631-4774-b884-259fb62fb1d6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28323511,"duration_in_seconds":1770}]},{"id":"bc2863b5-0184-4f5f-b3bd-aa354478ad03","title":"Episode 113: Yasmine El Rashidi on Egypt’s Fortunes","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/113","content_text":"If political activism has died down in Egypt since the 2011 revolution, there is energy bubbling beneath the surface, says Yasmine El Rashidi in Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change. The country experiencing its harshest repression in decades is at the same time inhabited by a majority of young people, who, through a new form of hip-hop, express a newfound taste for openness and freedom. El Rashidi joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the hope and the darkness in Egypt today.","content_html":"If political activism has died down in Egypt since the 2011 revolution, there is energy bubbling beneath the surface, says Yasmine El Rashidi in Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change. The country experiencing its harshest repression in decades is at the same time inhabited by a majority of young people, who, through a new form of hip-hop, express a newfound taste for openness and freedom. El Rashidi joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the hope and the darkness in Egypt today.
","summary":"If political activism has died down in Egypt since the 2011 revolution, there is energy bubbling beneath the surface, says Yasmine El Rashidi in Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change. The country experiencing its harshest repression in decades is at the same time inhabited by a majority of young people, who, through a new form of hip-hop, express a newfound taste for openness and freedom. El Rashidi joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the hope and the darkness in Egypt today.","date_published":"2023-07-21T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/bc2863b5-0184-4f5f-b3bd-aa354478ad03.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":24021893,"duration_in_seconds":1501}]},{"id":"9b85f0e1-9213-4b07-96f3-879f552b56c4","title":"Episode 112: Hugh Howey on the Silo Series","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/112","content_text":"Hugh Howey created a fantastical post-apocalyptic underground world in the first book of his Silo series, [Wool](https://www.amazon.com/Silo-Saga-Omnibus-Shift-Stories-ebook/dp/B088BBLMGS?ref=ast_author_mpb)_, off of which Apple TV launched its eponymous series this spring. Howey joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how he explores ideas about humanity and social order through the genre of sci-fi, and how the translation of his ideas to a visual format has expanded upon his creation in ways he could never have imagined.","content_html":"Hugh Howey created a fantastical post-apocalyptic underground world in the first book of his Silo series, [Wool](https://www.amazon.com/Silo-Saga-Omnibus-Shift-Stories-ebook/dp/B088BBLMGS?ref=ast_author_mpb)_, off of which Apple TV launched its eponymous series this spring. Howey joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how he explores ideas about humanity and social order through the genre of sci-fi, and how the translation of his ideas to a visual format has expanded upon his creation in ways he could never have imagined.
","summary":"Hugh Howey created a fantastical post-apocalyptic underground world in the first book of his Silo series, Wool, off of which Apple TV launched its eponymous series this spring. Howey joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how he explores ideas about humanity and social order through the genre of sci-fi, and how the translation of his ideas to a visual format has expanded upon his creation in ways he could never have imagined.","date_published":"2023-07-14T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/9b85f0e1-9213-4b07-96f3-879f552b56c4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30288765,"duration_in_seconds":1893}]},{"id":"1ff76af8-a847-4438-baf1-22f3f1b0d84d","title":"Episode 111: Daniel Gordis on Israel at 75","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/111","content_text":"The State of Israel engenders a wide range of emotions among onlookers, running the gamut from admiration to revulsion. In his new book Impossible Takes Longer, Daniel Gordis uses a wide lens to assess where the country is today in light of the goals of those who founded it. He joins host Richard Aldous for a broad look at Israel’s successes—and its failures. This interview was recorded before the Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin.","content_html":"The State of Israel engenders a wide range of emotions among onlookers, running the gamut from admiration to revulsion. In his new book Impossible Takes Longer, Daniel Gordis uses a wide lens to assess where the country is today in light of the goals of those who founded it. He joins host Richard Aldous for a broad look at Israel’s successes—and its failures. This interview was recorded before the Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin.
","summary":"The State of Israel engenders a wide range of emotions among onlookers, running the gamut from admiration to revulsion. In his new book Impossible Takes Longer, Daniel Gordis uses a wide lens to assess where the country is today in light of the goals of those who founded it. He joins host Richard Aldous for a broad look at Israel’s successes—and its failures. This interview was recorded before the Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin","date_published":"2023-07-06T16:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/1ff76af8-a847-4438-baf1-22f3f1b0d84d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32902673,"duration_in_seconds":2056}]},{"id":"0e32af25-64be-4b5a-8124-1a9cad8b05cd","title":"Episode 110: Ronnie Janoff-Bulman on the Moral Divide in U.S. Politics","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/110","content_text":"Why are Americans today so hostile toward opposing political viewpoints? Ronnie Janoff-Bulman contends that the answer has a lot to do with the different ways conservatives and liberals think about morality, and the fact that Republicans and Democrats are more cleanly sorted along this divide than in the past. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide, which investigates the roots of our political righteousness.","content_html":"Why are Americans today so hostile toward opposing political viewpoints? Ronnie Janoff-Bulman contends that the answer has a lot to do with the different ways conservatives and liberals think about morality, and the fact that Republicans and Democrats are more cleanly sorted along this divide than in the past. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide, which investigates the roots of our political righteousness.
","summary":"Why are Americans today so hostile toward opposing political viewpoints? Ronnie Janoff-Bulman contends that the answer has a lot to do with the different ways conservatives and liberals think about morality, and the fact that Republicans and Democrats are more cleanly sorted along this divide than in the past. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide, which investigates the roots of our political righteousness.","date_published":"2023-06-28T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/0e32af25-64be-4b5a-8124-1a9cad8b05cd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25915227,"duration_in_seconds":1619}]},{"id":"dfd8567a-863f-4be2-8712-5a23e7549996","title":"Episode 109: Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker on a New Age of Danger","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/109","content_text":"Thirty-plus years after the end of the Cold War, the United States has yet to rethink its strategic role in the world and the security architecture that supports it. In their new book, Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats, Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker argue that America awoke from its counterterrorism wars to a uniquely dangerous era of heightened nuclear risk alongside a wide array of new threats—from cybersecurity to climate to AI. They join host Richard Aldous to discuss how the scope of these threats requires a big-picture rethink akin to that which followed the Second World War.","content_html":"Thirty-plus years after the end of the Cold War, the United States has yet to rethink its strategic role in the world and the security architecture that supports it. In their new book, Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats, Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker argue that America awoke from its counterterrorism wars to a uniquely dangerous era of heightened nuclear risk alongside a wide array of new threats—from cybersecurity to climate to AI. They join host Richard Aldous to discuss how the scope of these threats requires a big-picture rethink akin to that which followed the Second World War.
","summary":"Thirty-plus years after the end of the Cold War, the United States has yet to rethink its strategic role in the world and the security architecture that supports it. In their new book, Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats, Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker argue that America awoke from its counterterrorism wars to a uniquely dangerous era of heightened nuclear risk alongside a wide array of new threats—from cybersecurity to climate to AI. They join host Richard Aldous to discuss how the scope of these threats requires a big-picture rethink akin to that which followed the Second World War.","date_published":"2023-06-22T16:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/dfd8567a-863f-4be2-8712-5a23e7549996.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32640206,"duration_in_seconds":2040}]},{"id":"721dc292-fbd8-4fc8-b812-1c8fa909eb15","title":"Episode 108: Brett Forrest on the Unusual Disappearance of an American FBI Source","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/108","content_text":"9/11 led the young Billy Reilly to an exploration of international affairs and world religions, and ultimately to the FBI. When he disappeared on the job in Russia in 2015, the trail went cold, in large part thanks to the very same organization Billy had served. Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest took up the trail, determined to solved the mystery of Billy’s disappearance. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his thriller reportage Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI’s Secret War.","content_html":"9/11 led the young Billy Reilly to an exploration of international affairs and world religions, and ultimately to the FBI. When he disappeared on the job in Russia in 2015, the trail went cold, in large part thanks to the very same organization Billy had served. Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest took up the trail, determined to solved the mystery of Billy’s disappearance. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his thriller reportage Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI’s Secret War.
","summary":"9/11 led the young Billy Reilly to an exploration of international affairs and world religions, and ultimately to the FBI. When he disappeared on the job in Russia in 2015, the trail went cold, in large part thanks to the very same organization Billy had served. Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest took up the trail, determined to solved the mystery of Billy’s disappearance. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his thriller reportage Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI’s Secret War.","date_published":"2023-06-14T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/721dc292-fbd8-4fc8-b812-1c8fa909eb15.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":24965198,"duration_in_seconds":1560}]},{"id":"2d108d40-7c6b-4de0-9b63-3643abd232d5","title":"Episode 107: Christopher de Bellaigue on Making Flight Carbon-Friendly","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/107","content_text":"The aviation industry has the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, but the development of existing technologies that can get us there is lagging far behind. In his new book Flying Green: On the Frontiers of New Aviation, Christopher de Bellaigue explains why flight and carbon consciousness are not mutually exclusive. He joins host Richard Aldous to sketch out the long slog involved in such a convergence.","content_html":"The aviation industry has the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, but the development of existing technologies that can get us there is lagging far behind. In his new book Flying Green: On the Frontiers of New Aviation, Christopher de Bellaigue explains why flight and carbon consciousness are not mutually exclusive. He joins host Richard Aldous to sketch out the long slog involved in such a convergence.
","summary":"The aviation industry has the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, but the development of existing technologies that can get us there is lagging far behind. In his new book Flying Green: On the Frontiers of New Aviation, Christopher de Bellaigue explains why flight and carbon consciousness are not mutually exclusive. He joins host Richard Aldous to sketch out the long slog involved in such a convergence.","date_published":"2023-05-31T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/2d108d40-7c6b-4de0-9b63-3643abd232d5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26590238,"duration_in_seconds":1661}]},{"id":"21fae384-2c70-408b-83db-03d5a81edaf1","title":"Episode 106: Frank Costigliola on George Kennan","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/106","content_text":"George Kennan was a man of contradictions: an icon yet something of an enigma, a strategist who “used emotionally evocative language in the name of cool, calculated realism,” a bold thinker who warned of overreach. Frank Costigliola puts the architect of Cold War containment in a larger context in his new book, Kennan: A Life between Worlds. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss our continuing fascination with this public intellectual par excellence.","content_html":"George Kennan was a man of contradictions: an icon yet something of an enigma, a strategist who “used emotionally evocative language in the name of cool, calculated realism,” a bold thinker who warned of overreach. Frank Costigliola puts the architect of Cold War containment in a larger context in his new book, Kennan: A Life between Worlds. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss our continuing fascination with this public intellectual par excellence.
","summary":"George Kennan was a man of contradictions: an icon yet something of an enigma, a strategist who “used emotionally evocative language in the name of cool, calculated realism,” a bold thinker who warned of overreach. Frank Costigliola puts the architect of Cold War containment in a larger context in his new book, Kennan: A Life between Worlds. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss our continuing fascination with this public intellectual par excellence.","date_published":"2023-05-24T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/21fae384-2c70-408b-83db-03d5a81edaf1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29215020,"duration_in_seconds":1825}]},{"id":"13af5fa7-0602-41da-823f-94a05e42123d","title":"Episode 105: Kim Sherwood on Her Double O Novel","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/105","content_text":"The legendary 007 series continues with author Kim Sherwood’s novel, authorized by Ian Fleming’s estate. Sherwood, who as a child imagined herself as Bond, lives out a lifelong dream by writing the next act for the iconic character. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, Double or Nothing: James Bond is Missing and Time Is Running Out.","content_html":"The legendary 007 series continues with author Kim Sherwood’s novel, authorized by Ian Fleming’s estate. Sherwood, who as a child imagined herself as Bond, lives out a lifelong dream by writing the next act for the iconic character. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, Double or Nothing: James Bond is Missing and Time Is Running Out.
","summary":"The legendary 007 series continues with author Kim Sherwood’s novel, authorized by Ian Fleming’s estate. Sherwood, who as a child imagined herself as Bond, lives out a lifelong dream by writing the next act for the iconic character. She joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, Double or Nothing: James Bond is Missing and Time Is Running Out.","date_published":"2023-05-17T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/13af5fa7-0602-41da-823f-94a05e42123d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28620264,"duration_in_seconds":1788}]},{"id":"ba8e155b-2e3d-4bc2-b48f-6886b8b1b8da","title":"Episode 104: Blythe Roberson on Embracing the Open Road","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/104","content_text":"Ever fantasize about quitting your job and hitting the open road? Blythe Roberson did just that, embracing freedom and the natural beauty of America—with an agenda. She joins host Richard Aldous to speak about the fruits of her labor of love, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled.","content_html":"Ever fantasize about quitting your job and hitting the open road? Blythe Roberson did just that, embracing freedom and the natural beauty of America—with an agenda. She joins host Richard Aldous to speak about the fruits of her labor of love, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled.
","summary":"Ever fantasize about quitting your job and hitting the open road? Blythe Roberson did just that, embracing freedom and the natural beauty of America—with an agenda. She joins host Richard Aldous to speak about the fruits of her labor of love, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled.","date_published":"2023-05-10T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/ba8e155b-2e3d-4bc2-b48f-6886b8b1b8da.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26075748,"duration_in_seconds":1629}]},{"id":"61231467-202a-489c-bb59-77213076392b","title":"Episode 103: Charles Dunst on Defeating the Dictators","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/103","content_text":"There has been plenty of ink spilled about democracies dying and populists rising. AP contributing editor Charles Dunst, deputy director of research and analytics at the Asia Group, takes the practical route. How can we shore up democracies to inoculate them against the tides of illiberalism, and remind those looking for a winning governance model that democracy can deliver? Dunst joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strong Man.","content_html":"There has been plenty of ink spilled about democracies dying and populists rising. AP contributing editor Charles Dunst, deputy director of research and analytics at the Asia Group, takes the practical route. How can we shore up democracies to inoculate them against the tides of illiberalism, and remind those looking for a winning governance model that democracy can deliver? Dunst joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strong Man.
","summary":"There has been plenty of ink spilled about democracies dying and populists rising. AP contributing editor Charles Dunst, deputy director of research and analytics at the Asia Group, takes the practical route. How can we shore up democracies to inoculate them against the tides of illiberalism, and remind those looking for a winning governance model that democracy can deliver? Dunst joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strong Man.","date_published":"2023-05-03T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/61231467-202a-489c-bb59-77213076392b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29653886,"duration_in_seconds":1853}]},{"id":"3530bea6-0ca4-4147-9703-b670d70f3378","title":"Episode 102: Dana Sachs on Our Saviors at Sea","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/102","content_text":"In 2015, as refugees poured into Greece from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, the assistance delivered to desperate migrants at sea and on land was largely provided at the hand of individual volunteers. Dana Sachs joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the failure of the international aid community and heroism of those who stepped in as detailed in her new book, All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis.","content_html":"In 2015, as refugees poured into Greece from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, the assistance delivered to desperate migrants at sea and on land was largely provided at the hand of individual volunteers. Dana Sachs joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the failure of the international aid community and heroism of those who stepped in as detailed in her new book, All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis.
","summary":"In 2015, as refugees poured into Greece from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, the assistance delivered to desperate migrants at sea and on land was largely provided at the hand of individual volunteers. Dana Sachs joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the failure of the international aid community and heroism of those who stepped in as detailed in her new book, All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis.","date_published":"2023-04-26T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/3530bea6-0ca4-4147-9703-b670d70f3378.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25759759,"duration_in_seconds":1609}]},{"id":"a391ee68-1cff-494f-8326-8ee251e09067","title":"Episode 101: Ian Buruma on Three Legendary Fakes","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/101","content_text":"In an era of fake news and invented personalities, it’s worth looking back to a time when deception could mean the difference between life and death. In his new book, The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II, Ian Buruma delves into three World War II-era characters whose lives blur the lines between good and evil. The former editor of the New York Review of Books rejoins host Richard Aldous to discuss history, myth, and morality.","content_html":"In an era of fake news and invented personalities, it’s worth looking back to a time when deception could mean the difference between life and death. In his new book, The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II, Ian Buruma delves into three World War II-era characters whose lives blur the lines between good and evil. The former editor of the New York Review of Books rejoins host Richard Aldous to discuss history, myth, and morality.
","summary":"In an era of fake news and invented personalities, it’s worth looking back to a time when deception could mean the difference between life and death. In his new book, The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II, Ian Buruma delves into three World War II-era characters whose lives blur the lines between good and evil. The former editor of the New York Review of Books rejoins host Richard Aldous to discuss history, myth, and morality.","date_published":"2023-04-20T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/a391ee68-1cff-494f-8326-8ee251e09067.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25730076,"duration_in_seconds":1608}]},{"id":"715d1831-6174-4123-aa9d-0cbd4bc0c4be","title":"Episode 100: Robert D. Kaplan on Inescapable Tragedy","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/100","content_text":"The American tendency in foreign affairs to think in Manichaean terms is exemplified by the Biden Administration’s democracy-versus-autocracy lens. Yet such thinking can result in a failure of imagination, says Robert D. Kaplan, which he believes explains his own regretted support for the 2003 Iraq War. Kaplan joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, an exploration of why the Greeks believed anarchy to be worse than tyranny.","content_html":"The American tendency in foreign affairs to think in Manichaean terms is exemplified by the Biden Administration’s democracy-versus-autocracy lens. Yet such thinking can result in a failure of imagination, says Robert D. Kaplan, which he believes explains his own regretted support for the 2003 Iraq War. Kaplan joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, an exploration of why the Greeks believed anarchy to be worse than tyranny.
","summary":"The American tendency in foreign affairs to think in Manichaean terms is exemplified by the Biden Administration’s democracy-versus-autocracy lens. Yet such thinking can result in a failure of imagination, says Robert D. Kaplan, which he believes explains his own regretted support for the 2003 Iraq War. Kaplan joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, an exploration of why the Greeks believed anarchy to be worse than tyranny.","date_published":"2023-04-12T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/715d1831-6174-4123-aa9d-0cbd4bc0c4be.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":24859048,"duration_in_seconds":1553}]},{"id":"b054b414-724c-4f8e-896d-2d49372a9b5e","title":"Episode 99: Meredith Bagby on A New Kind of Astronaut","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/99","content_text":"When NASA accepted its first class of civilian astronauts in 1978, it welcomed a historic group marked by many firsts: the first American woman, the first African American, the first Jewish person, the first Asian American, the first gay person, and the first mother. This week, Meredith Bagby, author of _The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Trave_l, spoke with Richard Aldous about this landmark class of astronauts who propelled the Space Shuttle era and defined a generation of space travel.","content_html":"When NASA accepted its first class of civilian astronauts in 1978, it welcomed a historic group marked by many firsts: the first American woman, the first African American, the first Jewish person, the first Asian American, the first gay person, and the first mother. This week, Meredith Bagby, author of _The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Trave_l, spoke with Richard Aldous about this landmark class of astronauts who propelled the Space Shuttle era and defined a generation of space travel.
","summary":"When NASA accepted its first class of civilian astronauts in 1978, it welcomed a historic group marked by many firsts: the first American woman, the first African American, the first Jewish person, the first Asian American, the first gay person, and the first mother. This week, Meredith Bagby, author of The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel, spoke with Richard Aldous about this landmark class of astronauts who propelled the Space Shuttle era and defined a generation of space travel.","date_published":"2023-04-06T10:30:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/b054b414-724c-4f8e-896d-2d49372a9b5e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":23646148,"duration_in_seconds":1477}]},{"id":"a4429ee5-47c0-41e6-b1ed-243492ef02cc","title":"Episode 98: Derek Leebaert on FDR’s Circle of Four","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/98","content_text":"Such was the prestige of cabinet members during the Roosevelt Administration that a 19-gun salute accompanied their arrival to a city. Joining Richard Aldous this week is author of Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made, Derek Leebaert, who shines a new light on FDR’s inner circle of four—Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, and Henry Wallace—and FDR himself, who together helped usher the nation through the Great Depression and the Second World War.","content_html":"Such was the prestige of cabinet members during the Roosevelt Administration that a 19-gun salute accompanied their arrival to a city. Joining Richard Aldous this week is author of Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made, Derek Leebaert, who shines a new light on FDR’s inner circle of four—Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, and Henry Wallace—and FDR himself, who together helped usher the nation through the Great Depression and the Second World War.
","summary":"Such was the prestige of cabinet members during the Roosevelt Administration that a 19-gun salute accompanied their arrival to a city. Joining Richard Aldous this week is author of Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made, Derek Leebaert, who shines a new light on FDR’s inner circle of four—Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, and Henry Wallace—and FDR himself, who together helped usher the nation through the Great Depression and the Second World War.","date_published":"2023-03-28T18:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/a4429ee5-47c0-41e6-b1ed-243492ef02cc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26318984,"duration_in_seconds":1644}]},{"id":"3eac56ac-4381-4451-8b87-28ba50e59987","title":"Episode 97: Adam Kirsch on Imagining Earth without Humans","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/97","content_text":"From climate change to the potential of artificial intelligence, there are plenty of reasons to doubt the viability of human life on Earth. Adam Kirsch, author of The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us, spoke with a diverse array of people who all agree on one thing: The future of the planet may not lie in the hands of humans. Kirsch joins host Richard Aldous to share the perspectives of those who believe in—and even embrace—just such a future.","content_html":"From climate change to the potential of artificial intelligence, there are plenty of reasons to doubt the viability of human life on Earth. Adam Kirsch, author of The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us, spoke with a diverse array of people who all agree on one thing: The future of the planet may not lie in the hands of humans. Kirsch joins host Richard Aldous to share the perspectives of those who believe in—and even embrace—just such a future.
","summary":"From climate change to the potential of artificial intelligence, there are plenty of reasons to doubt the viability of human life on Earth. Adam Kirsch, author of The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us, spoke with a diverse array of people who all agree on one thing: The future of the planet may not lie in the hands of humans. Kirsch joins host Richard Aldous to share the perspectives of those who believe in—and even embrace—just such a future.","date_published":"2023-03-20T14:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/3eac56ac-4381-4451-8b87-28ba50e59987.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27703282,"duration_in_seconds":1731}]},{"id":"42fb2e8c-5020-458c-aa28-6dd960dd720c","title":"Episode 96: Van Jackson on America’s Paradoxical Role in Asia","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/96","content_text":"American statesmen often argue that the U.S. role in Asia is indispensable to maintaining peace on the continent. Van Jackson, author of Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace, counters that America has just as often been Asia’s arsonist as its savior. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the complex role America plays on both sides of Asian stability.","content_html":"American statesmen often argue that the U.S. role in Asia is indispensable to maintaining peace on the continent. Van Jackson, author of Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace, counters that America has just as often been Asia’s arsonist as its savior. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the complex role America plays on both sides of Asian stability.
","summary":"American statesmen often argue that the U.S. role in Asia is indispensable to maintaining peace on the continent. Van Jackson, author of Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace, counters that America has just as often been Asia’s arsonist as its savior. He joins host Richard Aldous to discuss the complex role America plays on both sides of Asian stability.","date_published":"2023-03-15T11:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/42fb2e8c-5020-458c-aa28-6dd960dd720c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28793736,"duration_in_seconds":1799}]},{"id":"9a5b0cad-ef4d-4c19-9c09-0e3978d47885","title":"Episode 95: James E. Cronin on the Reinvention of the Liberal Democratic Order","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/95","content_text":"From the Cold War and collapse of communism to the rise of globalization and recent financial crises, James E. Cronin, author of Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order, posits that these events have caused a constant reinvention of a liberal order that once seemed unshakeable. Cronin joins Richard Aldous for a discussion on the emergence of a new international order in the face of the election of Trump, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Brexit, and more.","content_html":"From the Cold War and collapse of communism to the rise of globalization and recent financial crises, James E. Cronin, author of Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order, posits that these events have caused a constant reinvention of a liberal order that once seemed unshakeable. Cronin joins Richard Aldous for a discussion on the emergence of a new international order in the face of the election of Trump, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Brexit, and more.
","summary":"From the Cold War and collapse of communism to the rise of globalization and recent financial crises, James E. Cronin, author of Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order, posits that these events have caused a constant reinvention of a liberal order that once seemed unshakeable. Cronin joins Richard Aldous for a discussion on the emergence of a new international order in the face of the election of Trump, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Brexit, and more.","date_published":"2023-03-01T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/9a5b0cad-ef4d-4c19-9c09-0e3978d47885.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30566702,"duration_in_seconds":1910}]},{"id":"18205b0e-8c68-46cf-980d-e533b1bdd811","title":"Episode 94: Shana Kushner Gadarian on Politics and the Pandemic","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/94","content_text":"To mask or not to mask? U.S. citizens received different messaging about the degree of the Covid-19 threat and how to respond to it depending on who they were listening to. In the end, the different choices people made largely cleaved to partisan positions. In Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of Covid, lead author Shana Kushner Gadarian (with Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas B. Pepinsky) joins Richard Aldous to discuss how U.S. politics intertwined with pandemic approaches from the very beginning.","content_html":"To mask or not to mask? U.S. citizens received different messaging about the degree of the Covid-19 threat and how to respond to it depending on who they were listening to. In the end, the different choices people made largely cleaved to partisan positions. In Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of Covid, lead author Shana Kushner Gadarian (with Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas B. Pepinsky) joins Richard Aldous to discuss how U.S. politics intertwined with pandemic approaches from the very beginning.
","summary":"To mask or not to mask? U.S. citizens received different messaging about the degree of the Covid-19 threat and how to respond to it depending on who they were listening to. In the end, the different choices people made largely cleaved to partisan positions. In Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of Covid, lead author Shana Kushner Gadarian (with Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas B. Pepinsky) joins Richard Aldous to discuss how U.S. politics intertwined with pandemic approaches from the very beginning.","date_published":"2023-02-21T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/18205b0e-8c68-46cf-980d-e533b1bdd811.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27429526,"duration_in_seconds":1714}]},{"id":"87e6aa51-6365-4377-99a1-7c9a9b8e39de","title":"Episode 93: Frank Dikötter on China’s Uneven Rise","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/93","content_text":"The transformation of the Chinese economy over the last four decades is typically thought of as near-miraculous. Yet the facts and figures that make up that picture are those that have filtered down from the Chinese Communist Party. In China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower, Frank Dikötter’s wide-ranging research pulls back the curtain to reveal a much less tidy—and much more mixed—picture.","content_html":"The transformation of the Chinese economy over the last four decades is typically thought of as near-miraculous. Yet the facts and figures that make up that picture are those that have filtered down from the Chinese Communist Party. In China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower, Frank Dikötter’s wide-ranging research pulls back the curtain to reveal a much less tidy—and much more mixed—picture.
","summary":"The transformation of the Chinese economy over the last four decades is typically thought of as near-miraculous. Yet the facts and figures that make up that picture are those that have filtered down from the Chinese Communist Party. In China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower, Frank Dikötter’s wide-ranging research pulls back the curtain to reveal a much less tidy—and much more mixed—picture.","date_published":"2023-02-13T11:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/87e6aa51-6365-4377-99a1-7c9a9b8e39de.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28317256,"duration_in_seconds":1769}]},{"id":"37a96733-bc76-42ad-971b-56523ebc3304","title":"Episode 92: Tom Dunkel on the Germans Sabotaging the Third Reich","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/92","content_text":"A number of stories of individual acts of German resistance to the Nazis have come to light over the years. What is little known is that a network of individuals — from average civilians to those within the highest reaches of government and the military — coordinated efforts in a sustained attempt to undermine the Third Reich. Tom Dunkel, author of White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler, joins host Richard Aldous to share the stories of those risking it all in an attempt to destroy a regime of terror from the inside.","content_html":"A number of stories of individual acts of German resistance to the Nazis have come to light over the years. What is little known is that a network of individuals — from average civilians to those within the highest reaches of government and the military — coordinated efforts in a sustained attempt to undermine the Third Reich. Tom Dunkel, author of White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler, joins host Richard Aldous to share the stories of those risking it all in an attempt to destroy a regime of terror from the inside.
","summary":"A number of stories of individual acts of German resistance to the Nazis have come to light over the years. What is little known is that a network of individuals — from average civilians to those within the highest reaches of government and the military — coordinated efforts in a sustained attempt to undermine the Third Reich. Tom Dunkel, author of White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler, joins host Richard Aldous to share the stories of those risking it all in an attempt to destroy a regime of terror from the inside.","date_published":"2023-02-06T12:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/37a96733-bc76-42ad-971b-56523ebc3304.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26134250,"duration_in_seconds":1633}]},{"id":"95be5eeb-0737-4b20-a878-45c92a00b162","title":"Episode 91: Dan Akst on the WWII Pacifists Who Revolutionized Resistance","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/91","content_text":"In War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance, author Daniel Akst traces the founding of the American progressive movement back to when the United States was on the brink of war. Akst joins Richard Aldous to discuss how four unlikely real-life characters in the time of World War II—David Dellinger, Dorothy Day, Dwight MacDonald, and Bayard Rustin—created the spark that ignited the modern progressive movement","content_html":"In War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance, author Daniel Akst traces the founding of the American progressive movement back to when the United States was on the brink of war. Akst joins Richard Aldous to discuss how four unlikely real-life characters in the time of World War II—David Dellinger, Dorothy Day, Dwight MacDonald, and Bayard Rustin—created the spark that ignited the modern progressive movement
","summary":"In War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance, author Daniel Akst traces the founding of the American progressive movement back to when the United States was on the brink of war. Akst joins Richard Aldous to discuss how four unlikely real-life characters in the time of World War II—David Dellinger, Dorothy Day, Dwight MacDonald, and Bayard Rustin—created the spark that ignited the modern progressive movement","date_published":"2023-01-30T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/95be5eeb-0737-4b20-a878-45c92a00b162.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31532617,"duration_in_seconds":1970}]},{"id":"6fd2f542-f1c3-4935-b7b2-132fd41a534e","title":"Episode 90: John Lahr on How Arthur Miller Captured American Life","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/90","content_text":"Catapulted into the spotlight with his marriage to Marilyn Monroe, American playwright Arthur Miller’s life had more complexity and nuance than his claim to pop culture fame. Theatre critic and author John Lahr joins Richard Aldous to talk about Miller, the subject of his latest book—the man behind 20th century masterpieces like The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, and All My Sons. Do Miller’s plays offer an exploration of timeless themes or are they just time capsules that reflect the era in which he wrote them? Lahr and Aldous explore this question and more in discussing the new book Arthur Miller: American Witness.","content_html":"Catapulted into the spotlight with his marriage to Marilyn Monroe, American playwright Arthur Miller’s life had more complexity and nuance than his claim to pop culture fame. Theatre critic and author John Lahr joins Richard Aldous to talk about Miller, the subject of his latest book—the man behind 20th century masterpieces like The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, and All My Sons. Do Miller’s plays offer an exploration of timeless themes or are they just time capsules that reflect the era in which he wrote them? Lahr and Aldous explore this question and more in discussing the new book Arthur Miller: American Witness.
","summary":"Catapulted into the spotlight with his marriage to Marilyn Monroe, American playwright Arthur Miller’s life had more complexity and nuance than his claim to pop culture fame. Theatre critic and author John Lahr joins Richard Aldous to talk about Miller, the subject of his latest book—the man behind 20th century masterpieces like The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, and All My Sons. Do Miller’s plays offer an exploration of timeless themes or are they just time capsules that reflect the era in which he wrote them? Lahr and Aldous explore this question and more in discussing the new book Arthur Miller: American Witness.","date_published":"2023-01-23T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/6fd2f542-f1c3-4935-b7b2-132fd41a534e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":33736092,"duration_in_seconds":2108}]},{"id":"ccdb0843-9ef9-48fe-9994-4ded8f2fbc40","title":"Episode 89: William Inboden on How Reagan Kept the Cold War Cold","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/89","content_text":"Based on newly declassified material, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink by William Inboden plunges readers into the uncertainty of the late Cold War when the Soviet Union’s fate was far from a fait accompli. In conversation with Richard Aldous, Inboden explores Reagan’s thinking in trying to achieve a negotiated surrender that saw both a nuclear drawdown and a peaceful end to the Soviet system. The Peacemaker avoids a hagiographic retelling of the Reagan years and asks the question–is the Republican party still the party of Reagan?","content_html":"Based on newly declassified material, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink by William Inboden plunges readers into the uncertainty of the late Cold War when the Soviet Union’s fate was far from a fait accompli. In conversation with Richard Aldous, Inboden explores Reagan’s thinking in trying to achieve a negotiated surrender that saw both a nuclear drawdown and a peaceful end to the Soviet system. The Peacemaker avoids a hagiographic retelling of the Reagan years and asks the question–is the Republican party still the party of Reagan?
","summary":"Based on newly declassified material, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink by William Inboden plunges readers into the uncertainty of the late Cold War when the Soviet Union’s fate was far from a fait accompli. In conversation with Richard Aldous, Inboden explores Reagan’s thinking in trying to achieve a negotiated surrender that saw both a nuclear drawdown and a peaceful end to the Soviet system. The Peacemaker avoids a hagiographic retelling of the Reagan years and asks the question–is the Republican party still the party of Reagan?","date_published":"2023-01-17T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/ccdb0843-9ef9-48fe-9994-4ded8f2fbc40.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26068216,"duration_in_seconds":1629}]},{"id":"200b055d-04d6-49f9-af16-20972b93a208","title":"Episode 88: Megan Walsh on China’s Lively Literary Scene","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/88","content_text":"In The Subplot, Megan Walsh explores China’s diverse literary landscape, which ranges from underground comics and surrealist works to migrant-worker poetry and the less-regulated world of online fiction. She joined Richard Aldous to discuss how China’s modern literary culture offers a window into the lives of its citizens and a country grappling with shifting norms.","content_html":"In The Subplot, Megan Walsh explores China’s diverse literary landscape, which ranges from underground comics and surrealist works to migrant-worker poetry and the less-regulated world of online fiction. She joined Richard Aldous to discuss how China’s modern literary culture offers a window into the lives of its citizens and a country grappling with shifting norms.
","summary":"In The Subplot, Megan Walsh explores China’s diverse literary landscape, which ranges from underground comics and surrealist works to migrant-worker poetry and the less-regulated world of online fiction. She joined Richard Aldous to discuss how China’s modern literary culture offers a window into the lives of its citizens and a country grappling with shifting norms.","date_published":"2022-12-19T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/200b055d-04d6-49f9-af16-20972b93a208.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":22200838,"duration_in_seconds":1387}]},{"id":"e6daee4c-823f-4b68-8250-f2034859ce21","title":"Episode 87: Jacob Soll on the Ever-Changing Free Market","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/87","content_text":"To meet today’s economic challenges, a reappraisal of America’s free-market ideology might be in order. Jacob Soll, author of Free Market: The History of an Idea, spoke with Richard Aldous about the world’s constantly evolving free-market ideologies and how they have functioned throughout different eras, from ancient Rome to today. In a work that took eight years of research to assemble, Free Market offers a lesson in history as much as critical thought.","content_html":"To meet today’s economic challenges, a reappraisal of America’s free-market ideology might be in order. Jacob Soll, author of Free Market: The History of an Idea, spoke with Richard Aldous about the world’s constantly evolving free-market ideologies and how they have functioned throughout different eras, from ancient Rome to today. In a work that took eight years of research to assemble, Free Market offers a lesson in history as much as critical thought.
","summary":"To meet today’s economic challenges, a reappraisal of America’s free-market ideology might be in order. Jacob Soll, author of Free Market: The History of an Idea, spoke with Richard Aldous about the world’s constantly evolving free-market ideologies and how they have functioned throughout different eras, from ancient Rome to today. In a work that took eight years of research to assemble, Free Market offers a lesson in history as much as critical thought.","date_published":"2022-12-12T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/e6daee4c-823f-4b68-8250-f2034859ce21.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29519300,"duration_in_seconds":1844}]},{"id":"72ce3b6b-95f4-450b-9bc4-3cefbd9e7615","title":"Episode 86: John A. Farrell on Ted Kennedy’s Epic, Turbulent Life","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/86","content_text":"Ted Kennedy’s life was buffeted by heartbreak: the violent deaths of his three older brothers, his own terrible plane crash, his children’s bouts with cancer, the hideous self-inflicted wounds of Chappaquiddick. Those wounds scarred Ted deeply but also tempered his character, and, eventually, he embarked on a run as legislator that would change America for the better. John A. Farrell joins Richard Aldous to discuss his new biography, Ted Kennedy: A Life.","content_html":"Ted Kennedy’s life was buffeted by heartbreak: the violent deaths of his three older brothers, his own terrible plane crash, his children’s bouts with cancer, the hideous self-inflicted wounds of Chappaquiddick. Those wounds scarred Ted deeply but also tempered his character, and, eventually, he embarked on a run as legislator that would change America for the better. John A. Farrell joins Richard Aldous to discuss his new biography, Ted Kennedy: A Life.
","summary":"Ted Kennedy’s life was buffeted by heartbreak: the violent deaths of his three older brothers, his own terrible plane crash, his children’s bouts with cancer, the hideous self-inflicted wounds of Chappaquiddick. Those wounds scarred Ted deeply but also tempered his character, and, eventually, he embarked on a run as legislator that would change America for the better. John A. Farrell joins Richard Aldous to discuss his new biography, Ted Kennedy: A Life.","date_published":"2022-12-05T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/72ce3b6b-95f4-450b-9bc4-3cefbd9e7615.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27183346,"duration_in_seconds":1698}]},{"id":"935f381d-ce12-4951-9fcf-d0fc7f8f7af7","title":"Episode 85: Gautam Mukunda on Choosing a Presidential Candidate","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/85","content_text":"What’s the best way to determine whether a presidential candidate is truly up to the task? Former Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda joins Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World. Mukunda outlines his non-partisan set of criteria for how we can evaluate if a presidential candidate would be an effective leader and why some of the worst—and best—leaders are of the “unfiltered” variety.","content_html":"What’s the best way to determine whether a presidential candidate is truly up to the task? Former Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda joins Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World. Mukunda outlines his non-partisan set of criteria for how we can evaluate if a presidential candidate would be an effective leader and why some of the worst—and best—leaders are of the “unfiltered” variety.
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\n\nOur guest Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at Kings College, joins host Richard Aldous to talk about his new book, Britain and Europe in a Troubled World.
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\n\nLawrence J. Haas joins host Richard Aldous to talk about his new book, The Kennedys in the World: How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America’s Empire.
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\n\nThis week, Cristina Groeger joins Richard Aldous to talk about her new book, The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston, and discusses how education came to be seen as a panacea even as it paved the way for deepening inequality.
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\n\nOn today’s episode, author Paula Marantz Cohen joins host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, as well as her new book Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy.
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","summary":"Roya Hakakian joins host Richard Aldous to talk about her new book A Beginner’s Guide to America.","date_published":"2021-03-26T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/b074ad66-c3e4-46b7-9ccb-d927cde1d113.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":55109351,"duration_in_seconds":2296}]},{"id":"471f49d4-ec24-4c4b-9870-8a017d513cfb","title":"Episode 19: Ritchie Robertson on the Enlightenment, 1680-1790","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/19","content_text":"Enlightenment thinking across Europe addressed the full breadth of human experience. From the nature of beauty to practical improvements in administering prisons, the array of viewpoints and subjects stretches well beyond today’s shorthands for the era.\n\nRitchie Robertson joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790.","content_html":"Enlightenment thinking across Europe addressed the full breadth of human experience. From the nature of beauty to practical improvements in administering prisons, the array of viewpoints and subjects stretches well beyond today’s shorthands for the era.
\n\nRitchie Robertson joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790.
","summary":"Ritchie Robertson joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790","date_published":"2021-03-19T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/471f49d4-ec24-4c4b-9870-8a017d513cfb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32213367,"duration_in_seconds":2013}]},{"id":"a460d042-9310-436d-9a7e-621f923d0985","title":"Episode 18: Richard Thompson Ford on Fashion, Law, and Social Change","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/18","content_text":"Fashion matters. Clothes both tell a story about power, prestige, and privilege, and can serve as important means of critiquing and subverting these very same things.\n\nRichard Thompson Ford joins host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, along with his new book, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History.","content_html":"Fashion matters. Clothes both tell a story about power, prestige, and privilege, and can serve as important means of critiquing and subverting these very same things.
\n\nRichard Thompson Ford joins host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, along with his new book, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History.
","summary":"Richard Thompson Ford joins host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, along with his new book, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History.","date_published":"2021-03-05T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/a460d042-9310-436d-9a7e-621f923d0985.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":39901544,"duration_in_seconds":1662}]},{"id":"42295555-db7f-4089-b660-508920392375","title":"Episode 17: R. James Breiding on Small-Nation Success","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/17","content_text":"Why is it that some small countries do so well at tackling large, difficult problems that trip up their larger competitors?\n\nR. James Breiding joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book Too Small To Fail: Why Some Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World.","content_html":"Why is it that some small countries do so well at tackling large, difficult problems that trip up their larger competitors?
\n\nR. James Breiding joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book Too Small To Fail: Why Some Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World.
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","summary":"\"History from below” is usually an effort at social history seen through statistics and figures. Our guest this week, Emma Rothschild, takes a different approach in her new book, An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries, by recounting a vast narrative at times resembling a period novel.","date_published":"2021-02-19T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/aa66d09a-3ef2-4e59-a296-62dc39b3e272.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41880342,"duration_in_seconds":1744}]},{"id":"d6322d2e-c3f8-489a-bdb3-3b94482902af","title":"Episode 15: Robert D. Kaplan on Humanitarian Bob Gersony","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/15","content_text":"An unassuming high-school dropout, the son of Holocaust survivors, Bob Gersony became the U.S. government’s most intrepid researcher and reporter, a humanitarian icon who never lost sight of the importance of reconciling values with national interests.\n\nBestselling author Robert D. Kaplan joins Richard Aldous to discuss human rights, activism, realism, and his new book, The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government’s Greatest Humanitarian.","content_html":"An unassuming high-school dropout, the son of Holocaust survivors, Bob Gersony became the U.S. government’s most intrepid researcher and reporter, a humanitarian icon who never lost sight of the importance of reconciling values with national interests.
\n\nBestselling author Robert D. Kaplan joins Richard Aldous to discuss human rights, activism, realism, and his new book, The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government’s Greatest Humanitarian.
","summary":"Bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan joins Richard Aldous to discuss human rights, activism, realism, and his new book, The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government’s Greatest Humanitarian.","date_published":"2021-02-12T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/d6322d2e-c3f8-489a-bdb3-3b94482902af.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":47773001,"duration_in_seconds":1990}]},{"id":"a1f30f80-c427-46d2-959a-a11ee076351e","title":"Episode 14: Dominique Kirchner Reill on Interwar Fascism in Fiume","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/14","content_text":"The multiculturalism and pluralism of the Habsburg Empire gave way to the nationalist agitation of the flamboyant poet-soldier Gabriele D’Annunzio in a small Adriatic port city in 1919. And yet the Fiume crisis played out differently than other post-World War I episodes around Europe.\n\nThis week, Dominique Kirchner Reill joins host Richard Aldous to discuss fascism, resilience, the indeterminacy of history, and her new book, The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire.","content_html":"The multiculturalism and pluralism of the Habsburg Empire gave way to the nationalist agitation of the flamboyant poet-soldier Gabriele D’Annunzio in a small Adriatic port city in 1919. And yet the Fiume crisis played out differently than other post-World War I episodes around Europe.
\n\nThis week, Dominique Kirchner Reill joins host Richard Aldous to discuss fascism, resilience, the indeterminacy of history, and her new book, The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire.
","summary":"This week, Dominique Kirchner Reill joins host Richard Aldous to discuss fascism, resilience, the indeterminacy of history, and her new book, The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire.","date_published":"2021-02-05T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/a1f30f80-c427-46d2-959a-a11ee076351e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":45466685,"duration_in_seconds":1894}]},{"id":"28a05aac-22f8-4d07-90d5-e48f51e7c865","title":"Episode 13: Kevin Kosar on Congressional Dysfunction","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/13","content_text":"Congress is in a bad way. Why is this the case, when all the instruments for its revival are literally within its grasp? What can we do to encourage change? And will the Biden era move the needle?\n\nThe American Enterprise Institute’s Kevin Kosar joins host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, as well as a new volume he has edited, Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline of Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform.","content_html":"Congress is in a bad way. Why is this the case, when all the instruments for its revival are literally within its grasp? What can we do to encourage change? And will the Biden era move the needle?
\n\nThe American Enterprise Institute’s Kevin Kosar joins host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, as well as a new volume he has edited, Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline of Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform.
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\n\nTune in for the discussion, and read Larry Diamond’s Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency, now in paperback.
","summary":"With the transfer of power to President Joe Biden complete, American Purpose Editorial Board member Larry Diamond joins host Richard Aldous to take the temperature of American democracy. While there was plenty to lose sleep over, is there cause for optimism about American democracy? What kind of reforms are still necessary? And how is the next generation of young Americans thinking about the challenges?","date_published":"2021-01-22T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/1bde5207-ce8a-42d8-9ca4-2d08f0a90590.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48740059,"duration_in_seconds":2030}]},{"id":"4100c021-c3e5-4b70-99a0-fe9fbc3471e2","title":"Episode 11: Satia on Progress and Colonialism","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/11","content_text":"How does writing history influence the future? How did Enlightenment thinkers help prepare the ground for Empire? And how can we rescue the Enlightenment project to build a better future? \n\nThis week, Priya Satia of Stanford University joins our host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, as well as her new book Time’s Monster: How History Makes History.","content_html":"How does writing history influence the future? How did Enlightenment thinkers help prepare the ground for Empire? And how can we rescue the Enlightenment project to build a better future?
\n\nThis week, Priya Satia of Stanford University joins our host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, as well as her new book Time’s Monster: How History Makes History.
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\n\nG. John Ikenberry joins host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, as well as his new book, A World Safe for Democracy on the first episode of 2021.
","summary":"Is liberal democracy the foundation of a lasting world order, or should we be constructing a world order to help fragile democracies thrive? And after a rough few years for liberal democracy around the globe, what are the chances that such an order can be built?","date_published":"2021-01-08T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/27337536-95aa-4b3a-a10f-f71be794e7f6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":49208014,"duration_in_seconds":2050}]},{"id":"662d9292-1fbc-4db9-b4f8-c363757631ba","title":"Episode 9: Teasel Muir-Harmony on the Power of the Moon Landing","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/9","content_text":"Project Apollo captured the world’s imagination, and as a feat of “soft power” public diplomacy, it has few peers in the history of mankind, and has not been matched since.\n\nWith hopes expressed that President Biden’s election can start to bring the world together after several years of polarization, Smithsonian curator Teasel Muir-Harmony joins Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo.","content_html":"Project Apollo captured the world’s imagination, and as a feat of “soft power” public diplomacy, it has few peers in the history of mankind, and has not been matched since.
\n\nWith hopes expressed that President Biden’s election can start to bring the world together after several years of polarization, Smithsonian curator Teasel Muir-Harmony joins Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo.
","summary":"Project Apollo captured the world’s imagination, and as a feat of “soft power” public diplomacy, it has few peers in the history of mankind, and has not been matched since.","date_published":"2020-12-18T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/662d9292-1fbc-4db9-b4f8-c363757631ba.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44596221,"duration_in_seconds":1858}]},{"id":"56e3c7d1-0344-4899-980e-eab4650aaecc","title":"Episode 8: Thomas E. Ricks on First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/8","content_text":"Is the America we have today, the America that elected Donald Trump and is still struggling to move on from his term in office, the country our Founding Fathers envisioned? And just what is it that this illustrious group really thought they were building?\n\nPulitzer Prize winning author Thomas E. Ricks joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country.","content_html":"Is the America we have today, the America that elected Donald Trump and is still struggling to move on from his term in office, the country our Founding Fathers envisioned? And just what is it that this illustrious group really thought they were building?
\n\nPulitzer Prize winning author Thomas E. Ricks joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country.
","summary":"Is the America we have today, the America that elected Donald Trump and is still struggling to move on from his term in office, the country our Founding Fathers envisioned? And just what is it that this illustrious group really thought they were building?","date_published":"2020-12-11T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/56e3c7d1-0344-4899-980e-eab4650aaecc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40544395,"duration_in_seconds":1689}]},{"id":"ee72f772-1b2c-4e76-96ea-f3d58c101af3","title":"Episode 7: Susan Glasser and Peter Baker on James A. Baker","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/7","content_text":"To paraphrase Henry Kissinger, \"Who the heck is James Baker?” For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice.\n\nSusan Glasser and Peter Baker join our host Richard Aldous to discuss their new book, The Man Who Ran Washington, a biography of George H. W. Bush's legendary White House chief of staff and Secretary of State, and a rumination about a Washington that perhaps no longer exists.","content_html":"To paraphrase Henry Kissinger, "Who the heck is James Baker?” For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice.
\n\nSusan Glasser and Peter Baker join our host Richard Aldous to discuss their new book, The Man Who Ran Washington, a biography of George H. W. Bush's legendary White House chief of staff and Secretary of State, and a rumination about a Washington that perhaps no longer exists.
","summary":"Susan Glasser and Peter Baker join our host Richard Aldous to discuss their new book, The Man Who Ran Washington, a biography of George H. W. Bush's legendary White House chief of staff and Secretary of State, and a rumination about a Washington that perhaps no longer exists.","date_published":"2020-12-04T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/ee72f772-1b2c-4e76-96ea-f3d58c101af3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":51163275,"duration_in_seconds":2131}]},{"id":"6f14d262-0394-48e9-b078-4bf9a18e791b","title":"Episode 6: Ian Buruma on America's Special Relationship with the UK","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/6","content_text":"What’s so special about the special relationship? Was it built on anything more than Winston Churchill’s charisma and cunning? What can we learn about the history of the European project by studying its contours? And is it doomed after Brexit?\n\nIan Buruma, author, historian, and a professor at Bard College, joins our host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, as well as his new book, The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit.","content_html":"What’s so special about the special relationship? Was it built on anything more than Winston Churchill’s charisma and cunning? What can we learn about the history of the European project by studying its contours? And is it doomed after Brexit?
\n\nIan Buruma, author, historian, and a professor at Bard College, joins our host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, as well as his new book, The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit.
","summary":"Ian Buruma, author, historian, and a professor at Bard College, joins our host Richard Aldous to discuss all this, as well as his new book, The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit.","date_published":"2020-11-20T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/6f14d262-0394-48e9-b078-4bf9a18e791b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":45976895,"duration_in_seconds":1915}]},{"id":"e3826a1e-5126-45a4-bdfd-611393df4a93","title":"Episode 5: Edmund Fawcett on \"Conservatism\"","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/5","content_text":"Conservatism. It arose out of the ashes of the French Revolution. Margaret Thatcher famously denied she was an adherent. And today, it is taking yet another new shape as the world changes at a breathtaking pace.\n\nEdmund Fawcett, a correspondent for The Economist for more than three decades, joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition, a companion volume to his earlier volume on liberalism.","content_html":"Conservatism. It arose out of the ashes of the French Revolution. Margaret Thatcher famously denied she was an adherent. And today, it is taking yet another new shape as the world changes at a breathtaking pace.
\n\nEdmund Fawcett, a correspondent for The Economist for more than three decades, joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition, a companion volume to his earlier volume on liberalism.
","summary":"Edmund Fawcett, a correspondent for The Economist for more than three decades, joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition, a companion volume to his earlier volume on liberalism.","date_published":"2020-11-13T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/e3826a1e-5126-45a4-bdfd-611393df4a93.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46794569,"duration_in_seconds":1949}]},{"id":"2b2e120e-2033-47be-81e7-2d53e6f598d2","title":"Episode 4: Bookstack: Mark Salter on Senator John McCain’s Legacy","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/4","content_text":"Codes of honor. Ethics. Values. The rough-and-tumble of American electoral politics. And the fateful choice of Sarah Palin as VP pick.\n\nMark Salter, the late Senator John McCain’s speechwriter, aide, and close confidant, joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, The Luckiest Man: Life With John McCain.","content_html":"Codes of honor. Ethics. Values. The rough-and-tumble of American electoral politics. And the fateful choice of Sarah Palin as VP pick.
\n\nMark Salter, the late Senator John McCain’s speechwriter, aide, and close confidant, joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, The Luckiest Man: Life With John McCain.
","summary":"As we await the final vote tally from the 2020 presidential election, some reflections on political leadership.","date_published":"2020-11-06T14:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/2b2e120e-2033-47be-81e7-2d53e6f598d2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":52770259,"duration_in_seconds":2183}]},{"id":"0dc2ad4a-e3c3-470c-93d3-39cecc0bfb6a","title":"Episode 3: Francis Fukuyama on the End of History and the Last Man","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/3","content_text":"Francis Fukuyama, chairman of the board of American Purpose and the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, has published a new UK edition of his famous book, The End of History and the Last Man, accompanied with a new foreword.\n\nHe joined host Richard Aldous to discuss how his seminal work has aged, the challenges liberalism is facing today from both the left and the right, and why now is the perfect time to start a new magazine.","content_html":"Francis Fukuyama, chairman of the board of American Purpose and the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, has published a new UK edition of his famous book, The End of History and the Last Man, accompanied with a new foreword.
\n\nHe joined host Richard Aldous to discuss how his seminal work has aged, the challenges liberalism is facing today from both the left and the right, and why now is the perfect time to start a new magazine.
","summary":"Francis Fukuyama joins host Richard Aldous to discuss how his seminal work has aged, the challenges liberalism is facing today from both the left and the right, and why now is the perfect time to start a new magazine.","date_published":"2020-10-30T16:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/0dc2ad4a-e3c3-470c-93d3-39cecc0bfb6a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":42178933,"duration_in_seconds":1757}]},{"id":"d7eab6c7-301d-4dff-9bb0-14f365486f95","title":"Episode 2: Lindsay M. Chervinsky on the Origins of the Presidential Cabinet","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/2","content_text":"In her book The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, published this year by Harvard University Press, historian Lindsay M. Chervinsky explains why George Washington came to convene his cabinet, how he used it, and how later presidents adapted the institution.\n\nChervinsky formerly worked as a historian at the White House Historical Association, and has been a scholar-in-residence at the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona College, a senior fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.\n\nIn this episode, she discusses her book with Bookstack host Richard Aldous.","content_html":"In her book The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, published this year by Harvard University Press, historian Lindsay M. Chervinsky explains why George Washington came to convene his cabinet, how he used it, and how later presidents adapted the institution.
\n\nChervinsky formerly worked as a historian at the White House Historical Association, and has been a scholar-in-residence at the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona College, a senior fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.
\n\nIn this episode, she discusses her book with Bookstack host Richard Aldous.
","summary":"Lindsay M. Chervinsky joins Bookstack host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book 'The Cabinet.'","date_published":"2020-10-23T11:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/d7eab6c7-301d-4dff-9bb0-14f365486f95.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":33211960,"duration_in_seconds":1709}]},{"id":"7e2ecc7f-fbf2-4da4-9e61-f2a25f137247","title":"Charles A. Kupchan on 'Isolationism'","url":"https://bookstack.fireside.fm/1","content_text":"Charles A. Kupchan is a professor in the School of Foreign Service and the Government Department at Georgetown University. He joins Bookstack host Richard Aldous to discuss his book Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World, published by Oxford University Press in October 2020.","content_html":"Charles A. Kupchan is a professor in the School of Foreign Service and the Government Department at Georgetown University. He joins Bookstack host Richard Aldous to discuss his book Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World, published by Oxford University Press in October 2020.
","summary":"Author Charles A. Kupchan joins Bookstack host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book 'Isolationism.'","date_published":"2020-10-16T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/3457625e-1bce-48c4-b304-22ed2a19107c/7e2ecc7f-fbf2-4da4-9e61-f2a25f137247.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38079426,"duration_in_seconds":2047}]}]}