Breaking History

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Sometimes the news moves so fast, you have to look closely to know if you’ve seen it before. And that’s what this show is about. Breaking History breaks down the news, by breaking down history. We cover everything from LBJ and the Roman Republic to Donald Trump and the chaos at Columbia. This twice a month show from The Free Press delivers the best historians, authors, and reporters by mining the archives of human experience to figure out the present. George Santayana wrote, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Tune in to Breaking History to resist the repetition. 

  1. 7小時前 ·  附贈內容 • 訂閱者限定

    How the Democratic Socialists Conquered New York City

    Something shifted in New York City politics this month, and it didn’t just happen overnight. When Zohran Mamdani’s allies swept three congressional primaries, the temptation was to chalk it up to a perfect storm of anti-establishment anger and Mamdani’s considerable personal charisma. Harry Siegel, one of the canniest observers of New York City politics, thinks that explanation sells the moment short. The real story starts years earlier, with a movement many considered dead on arrival. In 2019, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)–aligned Tiffany Cabán came within a few dozen ballots of winning the Queens district attorney race. Instead of considering the movement behind her near-victory, the establishment mistakenly shrugged and moved on. While party veterans were busy protecting incumbents and running out the clock on their existing voter base, a new generation of organizers was knocking on doors, finding each other, and building something that didn’t need permission to grow. What holds the movement together has also evolved. The DSA’s early binding causes were climate change and economic anxiety, the bread-and-butter grievances of downwardly mobile young people priced out of the city they thought they’d inherited. But over time, and especially since October 7, hostility toward Israel has become the movement’s defining litmus test. Siegel documents what that means for the Democratic Party’s relationship with Jewish voters, and why even nominally pro-Israel Democrats have found it easier to join the current than swim against it. The harder question is where the party goes from here. The DSA’s New York co-chairs have made no secret of their ambitions beyond the five boroughs, and with midterms approaching, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries may soon find out what it feels like to be on the wrong side of a wave. Siegel argues that establishment leaders who brush this movement aside are doing so at their own peril. New York, he suggests, is just the beginning.

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  2. 7小時前

    How the Democratic Socialists Conquered New York City

    Back in October, we traced the founding of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in our episode “Beautiful Losers: Mamdani & the End of Socialism’s Losing Streak.” Now, with Zohran Mamdani’s allies sweeping three congressional primaries in New York, we’re back for a follow-up. In this episode, journalist Harry Siegel outlines how the DSA spent the better part of a decade building the machine that just reshuffled New York City politics—from post-Trump organizing drives and close-but-no-cigar primary runs to a movement that now has the Democratic Party establishment looking over its shoulder. How did it happen and what comes next? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  3. 6月12日

    Iran’s Favourite Washington Pundit

    Journalist Jay Solomon is back on the show this week to discuss his latest explosive investigation into Trita Parsi, the Iranian-born, Swedish-raised lobbyist who spent 20 years at the center of Washington’s foreign policy debate over Iran. Parsi built two influential organizations, cultivated powerful allies on both left and right, and consistently pushed a line on Iran that looked remarkably like the one coming out of Tehran’s foreign ministry. Now the Marco Rubio State Department is taking a serious look at his immigration status, and the organization Parsi co-founded, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, is mobilizing lawyers and foundation money to fight back. Jay and Eli trace the full arc of the story, from Iran’s post-9/11 influence operation to the leaked Iranian emails that blew the lid off the Iran Experts Initiative, which counted Parsi’s brother among its members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    48 分鐘

  4. 5月27日

    Who Owns the Declaration of Independence?

    As America approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, a quiet war is being waged over what the Declaration of Independence really means — with some on the new right dismissing it as globalist fantasy and some on the left reducing it to a document written by slaveholders. Writer and former national security official Michael Anton joins Eli Lake to examine the ideas of Harry Jaffa, a Brooklyn-born philosopher who spent his career insisting that the Declaration's truths are not relics of the 18th century but eternal facts about human nature. Jaffa's argument was unfashionable when he made it and it's contested now, but Anton thinks it's never been more urgent. Along the way, Michael and Eli take on the new right's growing rejection of the ideas that made the founding possible, the left's long abandonment of the Declaration, and how both sides have managed, in their own way, to get America's origin story completely wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 小時 18 分鐘
  5. A New Series From The Free Press | The Lindbergh Conspiracies

    5月19日

    A New Series From The Free Press | The Lindbergh Conspiracies

    Hi 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 for the rest of the season. --- EP01 | The Broken Window One night in March 1932, the infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh is taken from his nursery. A warped window, a ladder, and a ransom note mark the beginning of a case that will grip the world and launch a hundred conspiracy theories. Ninety-four years later, we return to the scene of the crime to ask: What really happened that night? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    43 分鐘

  6. 5月13日

    What the Founders Really Meant to Say

    Robert 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 of the Declaration of Independence — and it argues that we’ve been reading that document wrong for most of those 250 years. In this episode, Parkinson explains why the 27 grievances that follow the famous preamble are the real heart of the Declaration, what Congress actually debated and deleted from Thomas Jefferson’s original draft, and why someone in that room made sure race would be the last and most explosive grievance on the list. He also explains why those grievances, written in panic and desperation in the summer of 1776, feel newly urgent today. Limited time: download Supremacy: World War 3 for free via our link and get an exclusive Elite Bomber Seasonal Unit worth $25 - but only for the next 30 days: https://con.onelink.me/kZW6/z3mcjbhb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    57 分鐘

  7. 5月7日

    Roald Dahl: Genius and Bigot

    For 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 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He was also a vicious antisemite. A Broadway play about Dahl’s legacy; the new Michael Jackson biopic; Kanye West’s attempted redemption arc; all of these have the culture asking again: How do we approach brilliant art produced by morally compromised artists? Throughout history, some of the world’s preeminent literary geniuses have also been deeply bigoted, even monstrous people. In this episode, Shilo is joined by Eli Lake, host of Breaking History, for a conversation about these geniuses, from Voltaire to Norman Mailer, and why we should read their work despite their odious prejudices. Old School is proudly brought to you by the Jack Miller Center. If you believe in the importance of civic education and want to help prepare the next generation to carry on our democracy, join us at JackMillerCenter.org. Become a paid subscriber to The Free Press today to enjoy exclusive bonus episodes and reduced ads. Click here to subscribe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    49 分鐘

  8. 5月1日

    Eli Lake and David Rose: The UK Censorship Machine Eats Itself

    David 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 allegations tied to Labour Together, the political network linked to Keir Starmer. David joins Eli Lake to explain how his investigation describes a murky ecosystem involving claims of journalists labeled as Russian assets, the circulation of private intelligence-style dossiers, and the growing overlap between political advocacy and “disinformation” or “digital hate” laws in the UK. Our special episode on the UK being a “censor’s paradise” is here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    52 分鐘
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Sometimes the news moves so fast, you have to look closely to know if you’ve seen it before. And that’s what this show is about. Breaking History breaks down the news, by breaking down history. We cover everything from LBJ and the Roman Republic to Donald Trump and the chaos at Columbia. This twice a month show from The Free Press delivers the best historians, authors, and reporters by mining the archives of human experience to figure out the present. George Santayana wrote, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Tune in to Breaking History to resist the repetition. 

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    The Free Press
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    The Free Press
  • 活躍年份
    2025年 - 2026年
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    Runaway Media Inc.

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