Robert Hughes was for many years the art critic for Time magazine. At the same time he was, as an Australian, an émigré to the United States who studied and deeply understood our culture, history and politics. He was one of the most fascinating talkers we ever had on the program and here he is in brilliant form, in a 2006 conversation.

That’s the title John Drummond held in Chicago and among knowing journalists everywhere. For detailed knowledge of organized and street-crime, for perfect memory and compelling narrative style he has and had no match. Here he is in a conversation five years ago.

From 2004, Milt talks with CBS’ Bob Schieffer about his book Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast.

Milt talks with Cuban scholar Humberto Fontova about his latest book The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro.

There are about three conservative cartoonists fully employed by American daily newspapers. How do we know that? Because one of them told us so. That is Scott Stantis of the Chicago Tribune and here he is discussing the cartoonist’s art and what’s wrong (and sometimes right) in American politics.