Added 5.15.18. In this brief historical excerpt shortly following the 1973 publication of a young, Cambridge-educated Arianna Huffington’s critique of Western feminism, “The Female Woman,” Milt opens the disquisition with an admittedly chauvinist question: “What’s a nice Greek girl like you doing taking on the women’s liberation movement?” Arianna explains that although there has been no shortage of male chauvinist pigs to which she has been exposed in her homeland, and while she fully supports equal opportunity and equal pay, she was “repelled” by modern Western feminism for denigrating traditional female values and roles. Then she faces callers to the show.

Added 5.10.18. In this 2012 interview, Milt with author Paul Dickson brings to life the epic adventures of Major League Baseball’s most prodigious innovator, the larger-than-life Bill Veeck. The Baseball Hall of Famer – and owner, variously, of the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Browns – managed to offend and irritate other owners at the same time he delighted fans and sportswriters. To delve into Veeck’s colorful family, personal and professional history is to go on a ride across the landscape of broader 20th Century American culture and society. Dickson’s storytelling on this episode puts the listener right in the middle of it all. He is the author of 60 books including an equally colorful biography of Leo Durocher, and “Dickson’s Baseball Dictionary.”

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 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.