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A New Series From The Free Press | The Lindbergh Conspiracies
May 19, 2026Hi Breaking History listeners! My colleague Joe Nocera has launched a six part series about the Lindbergh kidnapping. Enjoy episode one here and then head on over to The Lindbergh Conspiracies feed fo...
What the Founders Really Meant to Say
May 13, 2026Robert Parkinson is a historian at SUNY Binghamton who has spent 25 years studying the American Revolutionary period. His new book, Tyrants and Rogues, arrives just in time for the 250th anniversary o...
Roald Dahl: Genius and Bigot
May 07, 2026For tickets to our live recording with Jon Meacham in Philadelphia, click here and register. Use code TFP for a 20 percent discount. Roald Dahl gave the world Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and...
Eli Lake and David Rose: The UK Censorship Machine Eats Itself
May 01, 2026David Rose is the director of policy and research at the Free Speech Union (FSU), a UK-based nonpartisan organization that campaigns for freedom of speech. The FSU will publish a new report examining ...
Is This War Justified? Eli Lake Debates Iran with Robert Wright
Apr 16, 2026Eli Lake joins Robert Wright over at his podcast NonZero, which offers “conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what th...
Why Iran’s Reform Movement Failed
Apr 09, 2026Arash Azizi lived through the democracy movement in Iran before he wrote about it. Now a historian at Yale, he joins Eli Lake to trace the arc from former president Mohammad Khatami’s unlikely rise to...
Eli Lake and Haviv Rettig Gur on Why Iran's Regime Is Hard to Kill
Mar 31, 2026What does it actually take to break a regime built on martyrdom? Eli Lake sits down with Haviv Rettig Gur — host of Ask Haviv Anything and one of the deepest thinkers on the Middle East — to assess w...
When ‘Good Kids’ Go Radical: A Breaking History Special
Mar 27, 2026What drives someone from an ordinary background into extremism? In this Breaking History special, journalist Jay Solomon joins Eli Lake to discuss his investigation into American extremist Calla Wals...
Eli Lake and Andrew Sullivan Debate the Iran War
Mar 19, 2026This week I joined The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, who has generously agreed to let us share the conversation here. Andrew and I go way back, and few people are as willing as he is to really go toe...
Modern Terrorism Was Born in the 1970s
Feb 25, 2026Breaking History producer Poppy Damon sits down with Guardian security correspondent Jason Burke to unpack his new book, The Revolutionists, a sweeping history of the 1970s wave of extremism that tr...