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Send us Fan Mail mysteryhints@gmail.com   email for Michele McAloon Trump. Presidential history was made this past week whether or not you agree or disagree with the verdict.   The President of the United States of America. There is no other political office in the world like it.  The 45 men who have filled the office have come from diverse backgrounds to embrace the many different  challenges uni...

Send us Fan Mail What is really  behind the campus protests and possibly all the vocal ills of current society?  Didn't Marxism die when the Berlin Wall fell? Dive in with me as we discuss NextGen Marxism   with authors Katie Gorka and Mike Ryan.  We talk about how a Marxism shaped by European Intellectuals and  adapted by 1960's radicals has once again reared it's ugly head in the...

Send us Fan Mail Paris..a charachter in it's own right.  Join me in conversation with Professor Mike Rapport  Author of City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Epoque    published by Basic Books  https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/imprint/basic-books/ If you are traveling to Paris this summer, have traveled to Paris or have ever dreamed of traveling to Paris this is a book you MUST...

Send us Fan Mail Anna Reid, author of Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine   writes about the history of Ukraine in a prosaic story of the people who through the centuries have claimed Ukraine as home.  From saber rattling Cossacks to Kiev Rus, to Poles, Jews, Lithuanians and Crimean Tatars  all who have walked and fought in Ukraine have woven a tale of hardship, endurance and dete...

Send us Fan Mail Two royal princesses from a small principality in late 19th century German lands marry into the House of the Russian Romanovs.  Princess Alex of Hesse and her sister Princess Ella lives end tragically when killed by the Russian Communists in 1918.  Clare McHugh in her second novel tell the history of the fate of these two young women. Join me in conversation as we talk about Clare...

Send us Fan Mail A French scandal over 125 years ago that still reverberates around the world. Alfred Dreyfus was a captain in the French Army whose faith was Jewish.  He was accused of spying for the German Army.  His conviction in 1894 and subsequent acquittal gripped the attention of the world  and forever changed France. Join me in conversation with Dr Maurice Samuels about his recent book Alf...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know that American soldiers actually went to war in Russia in 1918? Listen to this discussion with Anna Reid, author of "A Nasty Little War; The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution" published by Basic Books. It is a tale of heroes and scoundrels that few in the West know about much less understand.  Check out Basic Books ...they have some very wel...

Send us Fan Mail A conversation with Father Fessio, Founder of Ignatius Press about "He Left Us So Much" A Tribute to Pope Benedict XVI written by Cardinal Robert Sarah. Pope Benedict XVI -Cardinal Ratzinger was an amazing man.  His life spanned the 20th century.  He saw the rise of Nazi Germany to the 21st Century crisis in the Church.  Throughout it all he followed a spiritual itinerar...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know that Stalin, Hitler and Mao were voracious readers? Where did the paper book pocket book come from?  Join me in this conversation with renowned historian Andrew Pettegree, as we discuss his latest  The Book at War, How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading .  We discuss the fascinating and often overlooked role of books in warfare, exploring how reading...

Send us Fan Mail  Napoleon Bonaparte was not only a brilliant military strategist but also a master of propaganda. Join me in this conversation with Professor David A Bell from Princeton University.  He is an author of several books to include   Napoleon: A Concise Biography (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a short study written for Oxford's "Very Short Introductions" series. You...

Send us Fan Mail Join me in conversation with Melanie Kirkpatrick to talk about all things Thanksgiving!! Have a great Thanksgiving!

Send us Fan Mail What is purgatory? is it horrible? Does it lack joy? What is it suppose to achieve? Join me in conversation with first time author Michael Norton to discuss his book A Hitchhiker's Guide to Purgatory published by Ignatius Press.  This is a charming tale of the possible journey toward eternity.  Find Michele McAloon @MicheleMcAloon1

Send us Fan Mail To some it was a disaster and the ruin of the Roman Catholic Church to others a saving grace..Vatican II from its very inception until today has been the center of a storm of controversey.  Join me in conversation with none other than the leading Catholic intellectual in the world today--Mr. George Weigel as we talk about his book To Sanctify the World ; The Vital Legacy of Vatica...

Send us Fan Mail Because you can never get enough Dracula this time of year. This is a repeat performance!  Dracula ..the Motherlode of all horror stories just  in time for all hallows eve and all souls day . Join me in conversation with Dr Doug Mitchell, my friend with a PhD in literature, as we talk about Brahm Stoker"s 1897 classic Dracula.   Redemption. purity, bats and werewolves all rol...

Send us Fan Mail The Sassoon family was one of the richest families in the world in the 19th century, From a Baghdadi Jewish community to the dizzying heights of British aristocracy the Sassoons were an economic success story  mirroring the fortunes of colonial Britian. Join me in conversation with Joseph Sassoon, author of The Sassoons: The Great Globbal Merchants and the Making of an Empire  pub...

Send us Fan Mail Want io understand why individualism does not work for human beings, familiies or communities?  Want to understand how our individualistic understanding of our selves is not the turth? Join in Conversation with Father Timothy Vivarek, author of as I have Loved You . published by Emmaus Road Publishing.  BE A RADICAL listen to this PODCAST! You can read Father Timothy Vavarek'...

Send us Fan Mail Casey Chalk is one of the premier Catholic voices in the US today.  Join me in conversation with Casey as we discuss his book, The Persecuted:  The Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands published by Sophia Institute Press.    You can find Casey at https://www.caseychalk.com/ Talk to Micele on Twitter @michelemcaloon1  

Send us Fan Mail One of my most interesting conversations yet! Join me as we discuss Islam in view of Christianity , with Dr David Pinault, author of The Crucifix on Meccas Front Porch   (Ignatius Press)  This is not an apology for Islam but an analytical view of Islam in order to better understand Christianity. Dr Pinault is also the author of Providence Blue , a fictional tale of kenotic theolog...

Send us Fan Mail Join me in conversation with Joesph Pearce, author of Faith of Our Fathers, A History of True England (Ignatius Press)   as we talk about St Albin, Edward the Confessor, the Glastonbury thron tree, middle English and Shakespeare as a Catholic.   Find Michele on Twitter @MicheleMcAloon1.

Send us Fan Mail The family of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth is an integral part of the history of Europe.  Join me in conversation as we talk about some of  the Queens 20 th century family desendants . Two young girls Alexandra and Ella, ( who were also Prince Phillip's great aunts)  of the royal Hesse family in Darmstadt Germany marry into the Russian royal family for love. They both come to...

Send us Fan Mail If alien  life is discovered on another planet or in another universe how woud they relate to us and God?  Would they  be marked by origninal sin like us?  Would aliens need baptizing? join me in conversation with  Dr Paul Thigpen author of ETI and Catholic Theology , published by Tan Books.  Dr Thigpen traces the history of man's wandering about the existence of alien life....

Send us Fan Mail In a world without God  can suffering and evil be understood? What makes a Mass Shooter? Kaye Park Hinkcley author of Shooting At Heaven's Gate explores these questions in her well written fictional story set in Alabama. Ms Hinkcley creates a crisp, poignant and sometimes humorous narrative in asking how does suffering and faith shape our lives. Summer Reading at its Best! Fi...

Send us Fan Mail July 31st is the Feast Day of St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order. Join me in  dicussion with  German Professor Markus Friedrich as we discuss his book The Jesuits; A History,   an Amazon's  Editor's pick. (published Princeton University Press) From St Ignatius, a wounded war veteran to Pope Francis I, Jesuits have always been on the forefront of contempro...

Send us Fan Mail Who really was this man President Andrew Jackson?  Join me in conversation with David S. Brown author of The First Populist; The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackon    published by Scribner.  Andrew Jackson looms large in the American historical imagination  Find out who the man really was from frontiersman, war hero to the seventh president of the Untied States. A very well informed an...

Send us Fan Mail July 14 is Bastille Day. A great way to commenorate this auspicious event is to grab a glass of chmpagne or a good bordeaux and listen to my interview with Professor Olivier Zunz, author of The Man Who understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville published by Princeton University Press.  A wonderfully well crafted biography about a French man who truly beleived in democ...