What started in the 1600s in the West Indies spread across North America in what could be described as sometimes tumultuous. Yet it opened a way to more freedom and tolerance for all religions, and how they were practiced.

This is about the formulation and the growth of the civil rights movement along with the setbacks and changes that occurred during that long period. One outcome is a strain of white guilt that continues to forcefully shape today’s political culture, discourse, and public policy. And which, ironically, may well comprise a form of racism itself. The author Shelby Steele has written powerfully and convincingly on the topic. Here we talk with him.

This show was recorded only a few years after the Vietnam war ended and gives a good perspective on how four veterans recalled it and felt about their experience.

This discussion was recorded in 2007 and in some cases tells a sometimes different story of what went on in Vietnam and what happened when it was over. Compared to the show above that was recorded in 1978, this episode reveals that for many who were there, it will never quite be over.

What’s the connection? We assert nothing more than on one fine night in 2008 we did a two part program with two biographers who had done excellent and separate books about these two men of great (and incomparable) attainment. It rather makes one wish that we could get Disraeli and Buffett together in a live, trans-chronological radio discussion.