There are serious historic, Koranic and Sharia grounds for just such an assertion and Joe Morris reviews them here, noting some of the main reasons for the return – contested but potent – of beheading-based Jihad.  Morris, one of the founding members of our political A-Team, is a former Assistant Attorney General of the United States and one of the few non-Muslim experts ShariaLaw. In this examination of the movement to erect the beginnings of a universal Islamic Caliphate, threatening to kill all “non-believers,” we are also joined Chris Robling, a corporate consultant who once served at the CIA and is another member of our A-Team.

It is not the “opposable thumb” or “bipedal locomotion” that accounts for human superiority over other animals. Rather – and of course – it is the evolved brain of homo sapiens. Two leading brain researchers discuss the role of the brain in “language, love, liberty” and other distinctive human attributes in this 2007 conversation.

One of the best journalists ever to cover Washington was Tom Wicker of the New York Times. When finally he retired in 2004, having covered all of the regimes from Eisenhower to George W. Bush, he appeared on our program to talk about his many encounters with the Presidents – including how he got a prominent place on Nixon’s Enemies List.

All you need to know about the English language is to be found in the great Oxford dictionary, except the tale of the strange genius who conceived and organized it and the many unusual assistants – including a murderer and a madman – who worked with him. All of that is to be found in Simon Winchester’s book on the subject and in this extended 2003 conversation.

Two great historians covered the great 5th century (BC) war between Athens and Sparta. Thucydides was not available for interview – but Donald Kagan, Professor of History at Yale University, was. Our memorable conversation occurred in 2003 and provides a compelling illumination of the nature of war itself.