…was not what Hannah Arendt claimed she had discovered. Rather than being merely a  routinized bureaucrat who represented “the banality of evil,” he was a willing and enthusiastic organizer of the destruction of European Jewry. One of the first to lay out the detailed historical proof was Neal Bascomb, who joined us in this riveting 2009 discussion. Also heard here is the prosecutor at the Jerusalem trial and a portion of Eichmann’s testimony.

Yes it is, says Martin Kramer, long-time director of the major strategy research center at Tel Aviv University and now President of Shalem College in Jerusalem. How and why the Islamic State movement has become a potent rallying cause – and who will do what with which to turn them back – is discussed here by Kramer and  political scientist Charles Lipson.

Thus from the beginnings of World War II to Blair’s entry of the UK into Iraq. One of the great generation of post-war British historians, Cannadine in this 2003 conversation combines wonderful stories in high narrative style with a rich theory of the changing nature of British politics and culture. The show includes some wonderful sound clips of Churchill at the top of his form as war leader.

According to Margaret Thatcher, talking on our radio program some years ago, the crucial occasion was the meeting between Gorbachev and Reagan in the mid 1980s in a haunted house in Iceland. The meeting seemed to be a failure – floundering over the issue of the “Star Wars” program – but it led to a halving of the nuclear arsenals of both nations within a year. A fly on the wall at the original meeting was Ken Adelman, then the Director of the Office of Arms Control and Disarmament. Here is our recent discussion with him as based upon his new book in which he reveals the almost surreal story of that weekend  in Reykyavic.

There are serious historic, Koranic and Sharia grounds for just such an assertion and Joe Morris reviews them here, noting some of the main reasons for the return – contested but potent – of beheading-based Jihad.  Morris, one of the founding members of our political A-Team, is a former Assistant Attorney General of the United States and one of the few non-Muslim experts ShariaLaw. In this examination of the movement to erect the beginnings of a universal Islamic Caliphate, threatening to kill all “non-believers,” we are also joined Chris Robling, a corporate consultant who once served at the CIA and is another member of our A-Team.