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 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.

What will we be eating (and why) a hundred years from now or – for that matter – in 2020? The future of food depends upon climate, politics, costs and sheer human curiosity and perversity, according to the three experts who joined us in this discussion.

What a week it’s been in the political world. Hillary Clinton was back on the Hill again testifying about Benghazi. U.S. troops engaged in the Middle East. Assad visited Putin in Moscow. Putin’s troops continued their assault on ISIS. A wave of terror and retaliation once again grips Israel. Joe Biden dropped out of the race for the American presidency. And there was much more.

To help us make sense of all of this we turned to Art Cyr of Carthage College, Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post, Daniel Halper of the Weekly Standard, and Michael Barone of the Washington Examiner. What a week it was, and what happened will surely lead to more reasons for ongoing discussion.