Yeltsin opened the files in 1992. The first  American who got full access was Harvey Klehr. Here in 2003 we discuss with him the evidence of Soviet penetration of the American government and its full management of the American Communist party. This is not loose “McCarthyism” but, rather, effective if delayed counterespionage. Of special interest is the way in which American historians turned blind eyes until Klehr’s book appeared.

That is the number of galaxies – on average, each containing a hundred billion suns – that we used to think composed the total universe. In this 2001 conversation we learn that that is merely the number for the “visible universe,” but that there is much more out there. Even more exciting there are quite likely many other universes – perhaps an infinity of them.

Modern American divorce has become “a system for plundering the father” says our guest in this program from 2006.  The “no fault” approach in divorce law has done considerable damage to all concerned except, of course, the lawyers. Baskerville, a sociologist, argues that the way the law brings marriages to termination can, should and must be changed and, in the opinion of his interlocutor, makes a very persuasive case.

…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.