First air date (Links to video) |
Interviewee(s) |
Interviewer(s) |
Book |
Topic of interview / Comments
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January 4, 2014 |
Yuval Levin |
Jonah Goldberg |
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left |
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine
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January 11, 2014 |
Ranya Tabari Idliby |
Daisy Khan |
Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America |
Islam in the United States, Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in the United States
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January 18, 2014 |
Nicholas Johnson |
Zaheer Ali |
Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms |
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January 25, 2014 |
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto |
Tanzina Vega |
Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States |
Hispanic and Latino Americans, History of Hispanic and Latino Americans
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February 1, 2014 |
Angela Stent |
Dimitri Simes |
The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century |
Russia–United States relations
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February 8, 2014 |
John Rizzo |
Dana Priest |
Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency
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February 15, 2014 |
Keith Ellison |
Corey Mitchell |
My Country, 'Tis of Thee: My Faith, My Family, Our Future |
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February 22, 2014 |
Aram Goudsouzian |
Rich Benjamin |
Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear |
James Meredith
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March 1, 2014 |
Gabriel Sherman |
Jane Hall |
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News -- and Divided a Country |
Roger Ailes, Fox News
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March 8, 2014 |
Amy Chua & Jed Rubenfeld |
David Plotz |
The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America |
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March 15, 2014 |
George Nash |
Amity Shlaes |
The Crusade Years 1933-1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath |
Herbert Hoover
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March 22, 2014 |
Paul Taylor |
Jonathan Last |
The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown |
Millennials, Baby Boomers
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March 29, 2014 |
Walid Phares |
Joshua Muravchik |
The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid |
United States foreign policy in the Middle East, Arab Spring
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April 5, 2014 |
Zachary Karabell |
Kimberly Strassel |
The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers that Rule Our World |
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April 12, 2014 |
Cal Thomas |
Juan Williams |
What Works: Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America |
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April 19, 2014 |
Ezekiel Emanuel |
Sally Satel |
Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System |
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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April 26, 2014 |
Patrick Tucker |
Heidi Boghosian |
The Naked Future: What Happens in a World that Anticipates Your Every Move |
Predictive analytics
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May 3, 2014 |
Burton Folsom |
Kevin Williamson |
Uncle Sam Can't Count: A History of Failed Government Investments, from Beaver Pelts to Green Energy |
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May 10, 2014 |
Nomi Prins |
Larry Doyle |
All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power |
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May 17, 2014 |
John Paul Stevens |
Jeffrey Rosen |
Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution |
U.S. Constitution
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May 24, 2014 |
Jo Becker |
Suzanne Goldberg |
Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality |
Same-sex marriage in the United States
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May 31, 2014 |
Susan Stranahan |
Gregory Jaczko |
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster |
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
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June 7, 2014 |
Jeremy Rifkin |
Siva Vaidhyanathan |
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism |
Internet of Things
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June 14, 2014 |
Ken Adelman |
Romesh Ratnesar |
Reagan at Reykjavik: The Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War |
Reykjavík Summit, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev
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June 21, 2014 |
Rick Santorum |
Tucker Carlson |
Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works |
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June 28, 2014 |
Kwasi Kwarteng |
Toby Harnden |
War and Gold: A 500-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt |
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July 5, 2014 |
Matt Kibbe |
Tim Carney |
Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto |
Libertarianism in the United States
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July 12, 2014 |
Jason Riley |
April Ryan |
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed |
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July 19, 2014 |
Jay Barbree |
Michael Neufeld |
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight |
Neil Armstrong
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July 26, 2014 |
Chris Tomlinson |
Lavar Tomlinson |
Tomlinson Hill |
Tomlinson Hill, Texas
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August 2, 2014 |
Cheryl Chumley |
Theresa Payton |
Police State U.S.A.: How Orwell's Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality |
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August 9, 2014 |
John Dean |
Bob Woodward |
The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It |
Richard Nixon, Watergate scandal
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August 16, 2014 |
Daniel Halper |
Juan Williams |
Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine |
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August 23, 2014 |
Ben Carson |
Chuck Todd |
One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future |
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August 30, 2014 |
William Burrows |
Arlin Crotts |
The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-Earth Objects |
Asteroid impact avoidance
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September 6, 2014 |
Mike Gonzalez |
Niger Innis |
A Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic Americans |
Hispanic and Latino Conservatism in the United States
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September 13, 2014 |
Ken Silverstein |
Megan McArdle |
The Secret World of Oil |
Petroleum industry
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September 20, 2014 |
Caleb Scharf |
Ingrid Wickelgren |
The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities |
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September 27, 2014 |
Matt Richtel |
Maggie Jackson |
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention |
Distracted driving
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October 4, 2014 |
Heather Cox Richardson |
Matthew Continetti |
To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party |
Republican Party (United States)
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October 11, 2014 |
Atul Gawande |
Marty Makary |
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End |
End-of-life care, Palliative care
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October 18, 2014 |
Jake Halpern |
Nomi Prins |
Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld |
Debt buyers
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October 25, 2014 |
Linda Tirado |
Tracey Ross |
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America |
Poverty in the United States
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November 1, 2014 |
James McPherson |
James Swanson |
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief |
Jefferson Davis
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November 8, 2014 |
Jeff Chang |
Marc Lamont Hill |
Who We Be: The Colorization of America |
Race and ethnicity in the United States
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November 15, 2014 |
Karen Armstrong |
Sally Quinn |
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence |
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November 22, 2014 |
Sharyl Attkisson |
Nia-Malika Henderson |
Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation and Harassment in Obama's Washington |
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November 29, 2014 |
Jonathan Eig |
Katha Pollitt |
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution |
Birth control pill
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December 6, 2014 |
Jason Sokol |
Michael Meyers |
All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn |
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December 13, 2014 |
Lindsay Mark Lewis |
Dave Levinthal |
Political Mercenaries: The Inside Story of How Fundraisers Allowed Billionaires to Take Over Politics |
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December 20, 2014 |
William Deresiewicz |
Chester Gillis |
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life |
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December 27, 2014 |
Damon Root |
Jenna Greene |
Overruled: The Long War for Control of the Supreme Court |
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