From 2007, Milt talks with Amity Shlaes about her book The Forgotten Man, a sprawling take on the years of the Great Depression.

We talked once again with Stanley Kurtz, at the time a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Institute and recent author of Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities. We talk with Kurtz about his book, President Obama’s attempts at “regionalism,” and even reminisce about our mutual run-in with the Obama campaign back in 2008.

Our 30th President, Calvin Coolidge, is often listed by historians in the bottom quarter of Presidential rankings. Does he belong there? Amity Shlaes, the author of the excellent new biography Coolidge, certainly doesn’t believe so. We talked in 2013 with Shlaes about her new book, the life and times of a severely misunderstood President, and Shlaes’ role in furthering the understanding of conservative economic policy.