Dan talks to academic and Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas the decay of democracy and the slide into authoritarian nationalism.
I was thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the Pulitzer Prizeβwinning historian, Anne Applebaum. Anne's written extensively on MarxismβLeninism, the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, and was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic ...
What does it take to get the reputation as one of the least popular queens in history?
Should we remember Henrietta Maria as the wife of the King executed by his subjects, the Catholic influencer and a serial adulterer? Or as a prankster, a patron of the arts and a mother of two Kings?
Henriett...
I was delighted to be joined by Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, who took me through the remarkable rise of Adolf Hitler. Starting with his experience of the First World War, Nicholas took me through the events and turning points which turned a failed art student into one of the most powerful men in histo...