Milt talks with Robert Merry, editor of The National Interest, about his new book Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians.

From 2009, Milt talks with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Richard Myers.

From 2006, Milt talks with British historian David Cannadine about his biography of Andrew Mellon.

From 2004, a short excerpt where Milt talks with former FBI agent Joe Pistone, also known as Donnie Brasco, about his time undercover in the Mafia.

David Satter, Russian correspondent, recently kicked out of Russia by Putin (the first American journalist since the end of the Cold War) talks to us about the real meaning of the Ukrainian “crisis.” His expulsion was clearly due to his knowing and saying too much.

From 2008, Milt talks with Joseph Epstein on his biography of Fred Astaire.

From 2003, Milt talks with three veterans of  the Battle of the Bulge.

From 2005, Milt talks with the authors of Going to Mars, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens.

Not necessarily, says Steven Smith of Yale in his recent book (Reading Leo Strauss) and in this conversation. The Iraq War, the Weekly Standard, “noble lies” in politics, renascent Judaism as a source of political analysis, “exoteric” and “esoteric” political commentary: these are some of the areas into which one must venture, says Smith, when trying to account for Strauss’s thought and his influence upon the rise of neo-conservatism.

From 2006, Milt talks with Harvey Mansfield about his book Manliness.