A team of academically based historical specialists examines “the anatomy of revolution” and inquires what was shared by – and distinctive about – the French, English, American and Russian revolutions. A guiding question is whether modern convulsions in the alteration of power are truly “revolutionary.”

It has been about 65 years since their discovery. Our guests are two famous specialists who have long researched the Scrolls as they bear upon the composition and special strands of meaning in both the Old and the New Testaments.

This 2006 conversation with the main man at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) aroused and infuriated – and all the more so today because the problems it highlighted then persist.

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.

Elizabeth the First had a much more demanding assignment than the current Queen of England. The arts of ambiguity – combined, where necessary, with ruthlessness – seem to have been the basis of her effective and creative rule. All of this is under delightfully detailed examination in this 2003 conversation with two specialists in “Elizabethan” history.