Pulitzer Prize–winner Rick Atkinson joins to discuss The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777 to 1780, the second volume in his Revolutionary War trilogy. He explores the crucial but often-overlooked role of France, the underestimated grit of American generals, and the British strategic failures rooted in imperial delusi ... Show More
Yesterday
Steven Hahn Unmasks the Myth of Liberal America
Diplomacy via tweet rarely ends well, but US ambassadors are now flailing into their way through international tensions with sarcasm, memes, and zero restraint. Plus Steven Hahn, NYU historian and author of Illiberal America: A History, joins to unpack how liberalism has always s ... Show More
37m 10s
Aug 6
Not Her Type: E. Jean Carroll vs. The President
E. Jean Carroll joins to talk about the lawsuit she won, the president she sued, and the dressing room encounter that changed everything. The author of Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President opens up about the attack by Donald Trump, how she fought to be heard, and what it took—m ... Show More
41m 6s
Aug 5
High Stakes, Low Standards: America's Gambling Gamble
Jonathan D. Cohen, author of Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling, joins to explain why our national rush into online sports betting might be a bigger mess than we realize. They talk sketchy app rollouts, bad state deals, and how betting lines went from shady cor ... Show More
38m 12s
Sep 2024
Market Garden 80: Trapped (Part 4)
Al Murray and James Holland dive deeper into the brutal fighting at Arnhem as the British forces face relentless German attacks. In this episode, they explore the desperate efforts of the British airborne, cut off from support and low on ammunition, trying to hold their ground am ... Show More
52m 29s
Oct 2024
504. The French Revolution: War to the Death (Part 2)
“You have shaken off the yoke of your despots, but surely this was not to bend the knee before a foreign tyrant…”It’s January 1792, and one of the largest factions in revolutionary France, the Gironde, is calling for war against Austria. The French people’s hatred of Marie Antoin ... Show More
1h 3m
Jul 2024
Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor is Tyler’s pick for one of the greatest living historians. His many books cover the early American Republic, American westward expansion, the War of 1812, Virginian slavery, Thomas Jefferson, the revolutionary settlements in Maine, and m ... Show More
57m 6s
Mar 2023
TotalEnergies : des «superprofits» qui passent mal
Le 8 février dernier, le groupe pétrogazier français TotalEnergies dévoile ses résultats 2022 : 19,5 milliards d’euros de bénéfices, en hausse de 28 % par rapport à 2021, soit le plus haut bénéfice jamais réalisé par la major française. Des résultats dopés par la reprise d’activi ... Show More
18m 14s