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Breaking History

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Sometimes the news moves so fast, you have to look closely to know if you’ve seen it before. And that’s what this show is about. Breaking History breaks down the news, by breaking down history. We cover everything from LBJ and the Roman Republic to Donald Trump and the chaos at Columbia. This twice a month show from The Free Press delivers the best historians, authors, and reporters by mining the archives of human experience to figure out the present. George Santayana wrote, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Tune in to Breaking History to resist the repetition.

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How Republics Unravel: From Rome to…America? (From the Honestly Archives) 14.01.2025 40:00

*This episode originally ran on September 26, 2024 on Honestly with Bari Weiss* In September 2024, a man armed with an assault rifle was apprehended on a southern Florida golf course. He was planning to murder Donald Trump on the links. It was the second near miss in two months. It seems likely that the shooter, Ryan Routh, was acting alone. But he is not alone in the hatred he has for Trump. He...

Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting (From the Honestly Archives) 14.01.2025 42:36

*This episode originally ran on August 6, 2024 on Honestly with Bari Weiss* Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to be cruising after she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. But in her anointment to the top of the ticket, there was a strange and silent rewriting of history by the press and party loyalists with the support of a lot of tech companies, who together were changing...

When Students Become Terrorists (From the Honestly Archives) 14.01.2025 43:14

*This episode originally ran on September 7, 2024 on Honestly with Bari Weiss* After Oct. 7, 2023—when Hamas attacked Israel— students at colleges across America etched themselves into infamy with the most dramatic campus protests in a generation. In preparation for the 2024 fall semester, some major universities—from NYU to UCLA—have implemented new rules and decided to enforce old ones to prote...

When a President Drops Out: What Biden Can Learn from 1968 (From the Honestly Archives) 14.01.2025 40:42

*This episode originally ran on July 4, 2024 on Honestly with Bari Weiss* On our nation’s 248th birthday, Joe Biden faced the wrath of a thousand pundits. The whole world watched the elected leader of the world’s oldest republic befogged, slack-jawed, and mentally vacant in a debate he had to win. A poll from CBS showed that after Biden’s infamous debate performance last week, 72 percent of regis...