The Inquiring Mind Podcast

Stanley Goldberg

A podcast that fosters free speech and creates a platform for respectful conversations about history, economics, public policy, philosophy, psychology, and numerous other topics.

  1. 12/09/2021

    44. IMPACT of the COLD WAR on the WORLD with Louis Menand

    Louis Menand is the Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences and the Anne T. and Robert M.Bass Professor of English at Harvard University. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker Magazine and has served as an associate editor at The New Republic and a contributing editor at The New York Review of Books. His book The Metaphysical Club earned him the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for history and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. In 2016, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama. Most recently he is the author of the triumphant new book The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, which was published in April 2021 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Louis Menand Book Recommendations: Tristes Tropiques - Claude Levi-Strauss Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham -  Carolyn Brown Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Tony Judt Warhol - Blake Gopnik Wolf Hall Trilogy - Hilary Mantel About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

    55 min
  2. 43. GREAT SOCIETY and AMERICAN CONSERVATISM with Amity Shlaes

    12/09/2021

    43. GREAT SOCIETY and AMERICAN CONSERVATISM with Amity Shlaes

    Amity Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, Coolidge, The Forgotten Man, The Forgotten Man/Graphic, and The Greedy Hand. Miss Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. She chairs the Hayek Prize, a prize for free market books given by the Manhattan Institute. She is a presidential scholar at Kings College/New York. Most recently she is the author of Great Society: A New History, which is a stunning analysis of the social welfare policies passed in the 1960s.  Amity Shlaes Book Recommendations:  The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge - Amity Shlaes Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy - Jeffrey Garten  Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 - Rick Perlstein Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition - Jean M. Yarbrough The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs - John Cogan About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

    37 min
  3. 39. STATE of POLITICS: Past and Present? with Sidney Blumenthal

    11/01/2021

    39. STATE of POLITICS: Past and Present? with Sidney Blumenthal

    Sidney Blumenthal is the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He was a national staff reporter for The Washington Post and Washington editor and writer for The New Yorker. He is the author of numerous bestselling books including "The Clinton Wars", "The Rise of the Counter Establishment", and "The Permanent Campaign." He's embarking on an ambitious 5-volume series on the political life of President Abraham Lincoln.  Three of five of his books are now on sale including, "A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849", "Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856", and most recently "All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860'. Sidney Blumenthal Book Recommendations:  Life of Andrew Jackson - James Parton JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 - Fredrik Logevall Landmark Book Series on American History - Various Authors USA Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money) - John Dos Passos The Lanny Budd Novels - Upton Sinclair  About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg  TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

    1h 5m

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A podcast that fosters free speech and creates a platform for respectful conversations about history, economics, public policy, philosophy, psychology, and numerous other topics.