Myths that Made America
by Mark BauerleinAlex Zakaras joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Roots of American Individualism: Political Myth in the Age of Jackson. Continue Reading »
Bring Back American History Class
by Mark BauerleinTimothy S. Goeglein joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story. Continue Reading »
The Glorious Midwest
by Mark BauerleinOn this episode, Jon K. Lauck joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900. Continue Reading »
The Great American Conversation
by Mark BauerleinOn this episode, Akhil Reed Amar joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840. Continue Reading »
History for the Kids
by Mark BauerleinBill McClay joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Young Reader's Edition to Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story. Continue Reading »
The Antidote to Apocalyptic Thinking
by John WilsonDoes apocalypticism about American Christianity merit more serious consideration? Hard to say, but I’m struck by the radically truncated and highly selective historical memory that seems to characterize so many accounts of our current situation. Continue Reading »
The Claims of Memory
by Wilfred M. McClayI write in defense of memory. Not Memory in her gaudy mythological form, the Titan goddess Mnemosyne, mother of the nine Muses—but memory as the glue that holds our lives together and imposes order and continuity amid the blooming buzzing confusion of sensations, thoughts, and activities that . . . . Continue Reading »
Wilfred McClay on Historical Memory
by R. R. RenoWilfred McClay joins R. R. Reno to talk about his Erasmus Lecture. Continue Reading »
Goodbye Robert E.Lee
by Mark BauerleinCatesby Leigh joins the podcast to discuss his recent article, “Richmond's Rage of the Woke.” Continue Reading »
History Never Ended
by Nathan PinkoskiIs liberalism giving way to something new? The most notable contemporary case for postliberalism, Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed, has four tacit assumptions: First, America is in decline. Second, liberalism is responsible for this decline. Third, liberalism is collapsing under the . . . . Continue Reading »
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