Crushing myths about the 1917 Russian Revolution that both Russians and Americans still get from Soviet textbooks. Understanding that is the key to understanding today’s Russia as well. A very interesting conversation with Mikhail Zygar, Editor in Chief of the TV Dozhd and the Author of All the Kremlin’s Men. He joins us to speak…
Month: November 2017
The Trial of Thomas Jefferson, Governor
“Public offices are, what they should be, burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring with them intense labor and great private loss.” So wrote a newly elected governor Jefferson to a friend. Thomas Jefferson’s experience as a wartime governor was, even as judged the…
William McKinley Got Us Here: Interview with Robert W. Merry about POTUS 25, American Expansion, Income Taxes, Presidents and Press and More
He’s more than the President that was shot in office, more than just the guy before Teddy Roosevelt. And he wasn’t handled by anyone. William McKinley set in motion the America that we have now. His views on expansion, free trade, taxes, and money set up modern America. We speak with Robert W. Merry, the…