Added 5.7.18. In this second installment of expert interviews conducted during the week of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, Milt talks to Morton Kondracke, then the editor of Roll Call magazine; and Bill Gertz, then the Pentagon correspondent for The Washington Times. This fascinating and historic discussion foreshadows much of the subsequent response of the U.S. and its allies.

Added 5.7.18. In these broadcast excerpts dating from shortly after the terrorist strike on the World Trade Center in New York, Milt speaks with two expert panels. The first is made up of Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Forum, plus three University of Chicago political scientists: Charles Lipson, John Mearshimer, and Robert Pape. Their conversation centers in part on the appropriate response to the attack, and the efficacy of U.S. and allied military force as a deterrent to future radical Islamic terrorism. The second group is historians Donald Kagan of Yale and Frederick Kagan of The U.S. Military Academy. This conversation includes analysis of the dangers of action versus the dangers of inaction.

Added 5.3.18. Milt in 2009 interviewed writer and political analyst P.J. O’Roure about his other life as a car journalist. O’Rourke had just had published a collection of related articles titled, “Driving Like Crazy.” The chat veers from the golden era of the U.S. auto industry toward a range of related topics including: how both the manufacturing and hot-rodding of cars has changed; government regulation of the industry; and O’Rourke’s mad adventure driving a Land Rover across northern India.

Added 5.3.18. Milt sat down in 2009 with writer and political humorist Harry Stein to discuss his book, “I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next To A Republican: A Survival Guide For Conservatives Marooned Among The Angry, Smug, And Terminally Self-Righteous.” Stein is the author of numerous books, and a contributing editor to City Journal.

Added 5.3.18. Milt in 2009 interviewed two journalists who found themselves in very hot water with the Canadian government, for what they had published relating to radical Islam. They were Ezra Levant, author of, “Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy In The Name Of Human Rights,” and Mark Steyn, author then of, “Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech, And The Twilight Of The West.”

Added 5.3.18. Milt in 2009 interviews FDR’s eldest grandson Curtis Roosevelt Dall, who authored the book, “Too Close To The Sun: Growing Up In The Shadow Of My Grandparents Franklin and Eleanor.” They talk about Curtis’ take on growing up in the White House as one of the “First Grandchildren” during The Depression and World War II, and about his later years including his role in a feature-length documentary film, “Charlotte: A Royal At War.” To discuss that film about the ties forged – under Nazi-induced duress – between the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg and President Roosevelt, Milt and Curtis Roosevelt are joined by three other guests. They are the then-Luxembourg ambassador to the U.S. and Canada, Jean-Paul Senninger, and the two co-producers of the film, Candice Allen-Olson and Lynn Rothwell.

Added 5.2.18. In this 2010 Interview, Milt talks with Bernard Wasserstein, a University of Chicago scholar, about the history of 20th Century Europe. Wasserstein had recently authored the book, “Barbarism And Civilization: A History of Europe In Our Time.”

The night before the presidential election of 2012 callers voice their voting intentions and give their reasons. The contrast between then and what will probably be on their minds this coming November is – to say the least – striking!

Salman Rushdie. Henry Kissinger, Charlton Heston, Howard Cosell, Mike Wallace, Mike Royko, Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Buck O’Neill, Herblock and Pete Hamill are some of the memorable guests in this batch of outstanding excerpts from earlier programs.

Inevitably, language guardians focus more on abuse than upon admirable use. Either way, this is a topic of eternal interest and prone to generate amusement and argument. And, by the way, which presidential candidate speaks of experts as “pundints” rather than “pundits?”