Ron Chernow, a great biographer, joins us in 2004 to discuss the astonishing life and achievement – and death in a duel – of the youngest of the founding fathers.

Vernon Walters wound up as second-in-command at the CIA after a long career stranger than fiction. Here he is talking with Milt in 1978 and recounting, among many other things, his involvement in Watergate.

Milt talks with Robert Merry, editor of The National Interest, about his new book Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians.

Not necessarily, says Steven Smith of Yale in his recent book (Reading Leo Strauss) and in this conversation. The Iraq War, the Weekly Standard, “noble lies” in politics, renascent Judaism as a source of political analysis, “exoteric” and “esoteric” political commentary: these are some of the areas into which one must venture, says Smith, when trying to account for Strauss’s thought and his influence upon the rise of neo-conservatism.

From 2007, Milt talks with humorist P.J. O’Rourke on his great book looking at the works of economist Adam Smith.