Dec 1, 2016 | Featured, Free, Latest, Podcast, Recent |
With the recent death of Fidel Castro, we decided to take a quick detour from our linear narrative to jump ahead in time and talk about one of the major figures, not only of the Cold War, but of the 20th century. A hero to many, reviled by just as many, his death...
Nov 11, 2016 | Free, Latest, Premium, Recent |
Today we have another special guest – Pulitzer Prize-winning author, the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Professor of History in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Prof Fredrik...
Oct 14, 2016 | Free, Podcast, Premium |
This is the first of two episodes about the Cambridge Five! This week – Kim Philby, arguably the most effective spy in the history of spying. The man running British operations against the Russians in the early years of the Cold War was actually working for the...
Sep 15, 2016 | Free, Podcast, Premium |
Professor Campbell Craig is the Professor of International Relations at Cardiff University. He has held senior fellowships at Yale University, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the European University Institute, and, most recently, at the Institute for Advanced...
Aug 26, 2016 | Free, Podcast, Premium |
We start in August 1942. Churchill is still in Moscow, getting down with Uncle Joe. Stalin accuses the British of being a bunch of pussies, too scared to fight the big bad Nazis.To try to break up the UK/USA/USSR love nest, the Nazis dig up 3000 dead bodies of...
Jul 1, 2016 | Featured, Free, Podcast, Premium |
Part 3 of our three-part series on economics and war, where we drill down into the various ways companies profiteer from war and how it stimulates the economy via “Military Keynesianism”. To summarise the last three episodes, here are some of the main ways war is...
