Craig Singleton joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the ways China has made end runs around the policies of the Biden, Trump and Obama presidencies and the troubling clashes we’re now seeing around Taiwan and the Philippines.
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Did the 1860s make the Civil War inevitable?
Author Erik Larson joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the presidential election of 1860, how Southerners labeled it a “hostile act,” and the chaotic months that followed before the first bullets flew at Fort Sumpter.
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Is democracy in decline globally?
Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, Kelly and David Pfeil discuss the health of democracies amid the rise of authoritarianism – and what can be done to strengthen them.
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A Lesson In Texas Mythology
W.F. Strong joins guest host John McCaa to tell some tales – some tall, some not – and to talk about the mythology that surrounds the Lone Star State. His new book is called “Stories from Texas: Some of Them Are True”.
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How We’re Still Funding The Civil War
Brian Palmer of the Investigative Fund joins guest host John McCaa to talk about the millions of dollars tax payers spend each year to conserve memorials to the Confederacy.
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Texans Of The Year
Elizabeth Souder and Brendan Miniter of the Dallas Morning News’s editorial board join guest host John McCaa to talk about the finalists for the paper’s Texan of the Year.
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