Nov 16 2011
This week’s Coffee & Markets podcast features Mary Ann Glendon, author of The Forum and the Tower: How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt. We discussed the intersection of politics and theory through the eyes of some famous examples and what this means for the public square today.
Nov 9 2011
This weeks Coffee & Markets podcast guest is David P. Goldman aka “Spengler”, author of How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too). My most excellent Co-Host Pejman and I queried Goldman about demographic changes (in the Muslim world in particular), their impact on politics and policies, and how the US can best position itself in this changing environment.
Oct 12 2011
This week Pejman and I talk with Ken Ballen about his new book Terrorists In Love: The Real Lives or Islamic Radicals a fascinating documentation of case studies of individual extremists, their life histories, and their personal perspectives.
Sep 28 2011
This week’s Coffee & Markets tackles this subject and more with one of my favorite writers, Richard Brookhiser. Pejman Yousefzadeh and I discuss Brookhiser’s new biography of James Madison, Madison’s battle with Hamilton, his break with Washington, and the last years of his life, when he foresaw the secession of states from the Union.
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Sep 22 2011
The latest edition of Coffee & Markets is available. This week Pejman Yousefzadeh and I spoke with Walter Olson about his new book Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America.
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