Best Alan Alda Podcasts (2025)

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Bob Odenkirk: Comedy? Action? Drama? Better Call Bob! 37:37

24h ago37:37

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From his long running role as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, to his recent Broadway appearance in Glenngary Glen Ross, and his new incarnation as an off-beat action hero in the movies Nobody and Nobody 2, Bob Odenkirk does it all.By Bobi NYC

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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Bob Odenkirk: Comedy? Action? Drama? Better Call Bob! 37:37

7h ago37:37

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From his long running role as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, to his recent Broadway appearance in Glenngary Glen Ross, and his new incarnation as an off-beat action hero in the movies Nobody and Nobody 2, Bob Odenkirk does it all.By Bobi NYC

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Amarica's Constitution: Skrmetti Skirmish 1:30:26

1h ago1:30:26

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We continue our discussion of the deep issues raised in the case of US v. Skrmetti. Last time we observed the Court wrestling with questions of whether the Tennessee law banning gender dysphoria treatments in minors was a form of sex discrimination. Later in the argument the Court addressed the question of whether transgender individuals, or some r…

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Better Offline: Building A Newspaper Out of the Internet with Molly White 35:13

1h ago35:13

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In this episode, Ed is joined by writer and critic Molly White to talk about how RSS can purify your news experience, the challenge of the newsletter economy, and what gives her optimism for the future. Citation Needed Newsletter: https://www.citationneeded.news Molly on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki Better Offline listener deal: Get…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 08-06-2025 12AM EDT 4:40

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 08-05-2025 11PM EDT 4:40

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 08-05-2025 10PM EDT 4:40

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Bannon`s War Room: WarRoom Battleground EP 822: Exposing The Soros Funding Behind The Dems Jailbreak; Rethinking mRNA

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WarRoom Battleground EP 822: Exposing The Soros Funding Behind The Dems Jailbreak; Rethinking mRNABy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4685: Texas Plan To Arrest And Vacate The Seats Of Dems Who Fled Texas

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Episode 4685: Texas Plan To Arrest And Vacate The Seats Of Dems Who Fled TexasBy WarRoom.org

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The Gist: High Stakes, Low Standards: America's Gambling Gamble 38:12

1h ago38:12

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Jonathan D. Cohen, author of Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling, joins to explain why our national rush into online sports betting might be a bigger mess than we realize. They talk sketchy app rollouts, bad state deals, and how betting lines went from shady corners to college campus. Plus, why Malaysian women’s doubles badminton …

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 3553 - Republicans Rush to Redistrict as Their Base Turns on Them; Gaza Has Been Completely Destroyed 1:36:49

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It's Tuesday Newsday at Majority Report. On today's show: Sen. Elizabeth Warren cooks Squawk box over they're lazy rejections of Zohran Mamdani's policy proposals. Meanwhile Corey Booker chooses to "stay out of NY politics". Rep Mike Flood (R-NE) holds a town hall meeting and over 750 packed into the theater to relentlessly boo, heckle and jeer him…

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Letters from an American: August 4, 2025 9:49

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson

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The Bulwark Podcast: Chuck Todd: Is the Economy the Biggest Political Threat to Trump? 54:45

3h ago54:45

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Voters in the seven swing states that elected Trump in 2024 thought he'd make the economy better. His perceived strength on the economy is the cornerstone Jenga piece of the whole Trump Tower. And he keeps making the economy worse. Meanwhile, Democratic voters are highly engaged—but just not with the party, whose brand is struggling. Plus, Republic…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4684: Arresting The Texas Dems; Dawn of the Digital Undead

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Episode 4684: Arresting The Texas Dems; Dawn of the Digital UndeadBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4683: Investigations Continue Into The Russia Hoax; Texas Might Win 5 Seats In Redistricting Fight

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Episode 4683: Investigations Continue Into The Russia Hoax; Texas Might Win 5 Seats In Redistricting FightBy WarRoom.org

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99% Invisible: Weeding is Fundamental Revisited 38:03

4h ago38:03

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Libraries get rid of books all the time. There are so many new books coming in every day and only a finite amount of library space. The practice of freeing up library space is called weeding. When the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library was damaged by an earthquake 1989, the argument over which books need to be weeded, and how they were…

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Columbia Energy Exchange: A Reckoning for Core US Climate Finding 40:10

4h ago40:10

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The US Environmental Protection Agency plans to rescind the foundation of its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Eliminating the so-called “endangerment finding” is a key part of President Trump’s efforts to reverse Obama- and Biden-era climate policy. The finding was also targeted in the conservative Project 20…

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China Global: After Stockholm: What's Next for US-China Trade Talks? 32:07

6h ago32:07

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The United States and China wrapped up the third round of high-level trade negotiations earlier this week. American and Chinese negotiators met in Stockholm on July 28 and 29. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described the talks as constructive and wide ranging. He acknowledged that an extension of the 90-day tariff pause was discussed but said …

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 8/5/25: Texas California Battle On Gerrymandering, Andrew Shculz Betrayed By Trump On IVF, Cory Booker Refuses Zohran Endorsement 39:58

6h ago39:58

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Ryan and Saagar discuss Texas And California battle on gerrymandering, Andrew Schulz betrayed by Trump on IVF, Cory Booker refuses Zohran endorsement. Abdul: https://abdulforsenate.com/ To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.com Merch Store: https://shop.brea…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 8/5/25: Trump Blocks Disaster Relief Over Israel, Bibi Plans Gaza Conquest, Trump Tariffs India Over Russia 1:08:30

6h ago1:08:30

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Ryan and Saagar discuss Trump blocks disaster relief for Israel boycotts, Bibi plans conquest of Gaza, Trump tariffs India over Russia support. Abdul: https://abdulforsenate.com/ To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.com Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoi…

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The Nation Podcasts: How Land Determines Our Fate | American Prestige 50:28

1h ago50:28

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Michael Albertus, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, joins the program to talk about his book Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies. The group explores notions of land from archaeological evidence thousands of years ago, the enclosure movement of the medieval era, the European m…

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Jacobin Radio: Dig: Chicago’s Left Experiment 2:00:39

2h ago2:00:39

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Featuring Alex Han, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and alderwoman Jeanette Taylor on Chicago’s left political experiment. In the wake of Zohran’s remarkable victory in New York, organizers all over the country are taking a close look at Chicago under Mayor Brandon Johnson. A Chicago Teachers Union leader elected in 2023, Johnson’s win was the culmination of ye…

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Bankless: Should I Buy ETH Treasuries? Early Stage Greed Cycle? | Michael Nadeau’s DeFi Report #4

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Public companies are racing to lock ETH onto their balance sheets, but is this the spark for a late-cycle greed run or a setup for a painful reversal? Mike Nadeau from The DeFi Report joins Ryan to unpack the ETH treasury boom, explain how staking yield and convertible debt amplify reflexivity, and show why onchain signals place us around 9 p.m. on…

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The Daily: The Most Closely Watched Trump Firing in Washington 29:21

12h ago29:21

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For many Americans, the government’s monthly jobs number was a pretty dull statistic — until a few days ago, when President Trump angrily fired the person responsible for producing it, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now, from Washington to Wall Street, many people are wondering whether you can still trust federal statistics if …

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The Ezra Klein Show: Mahmoud Khalil Tells His Story 1:22:28

4h ago1:22:28

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Mahmoud Khalil was a leader in Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protests. In March, he was arrested by ICE agents and held for more than 100 days in a Louisiana detention facility. The Trump administration claims Khalil is deportable — even though he has a green card, married to a U.S. citizen — because he poses a threat to U.S. foreign policy…

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Trending In Ed with Mike Palmer: Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math with Author Shalinee Sharma 43:19

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Shalinee Sharma is the CoFounder and CEO of Zearn and the author of Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math. She joins host Mike Palmer in a conversation about what it takes to instill a genuine love of math in all kids. We begin by hearing Shalinee's origins in consulting at Bain before she jumped into the opportunity to cofound Zearn and lead i…

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Otherppl with Brad Listi: 982. Shelby Hinte 1:08:48

5h ago1:08:48

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Shelby Hinte is the author of the debut novel Howling Women, available from Leftover Books. Hinte is the Senior Editor of Write or Die Magazine and teaches writing classes at the Writing Salon and WritingWorkshops.com. She has been a reader and intern for various independent presses and magazines including ZYZZYVA, Split/Lip Press, and No Contact. …

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5-4: Trump Brings the War Home [TEASER] 5:45

5h ago5:45

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California has become a testing ground for Trump's police state ambitions. In Los Angeles and across the country, he’s merging the military and the police into one entity, with its guns aimed inward. If you're not a 5-4 Premium member, you're not hearing every episode! To hear this and other Premium-only episodes, access to our Slack community, and…

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Bell Curve: Empire Cross-Post: The Bull Case For GLXY With Duncan & Rittenhouse Research 1:32:18

5h ago1:32:18

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Gm! This week, Duncan and Matt join Yano to dive into Galaxy’s unique business model and how it’s perfectly positioned for the AI, crypto and datacenter narratives as we move into the future. -- Arkham is a crypto exchange and a blockchain analytics platform. Arkham allows crypto traders and investors to look inside the wallets of the best traders,…

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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast: 'Not My Type' with E. Jean Carroll 50:51

6h ago50:51

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Author and journalist E. Jean Carroll successfully sued Donald Trump in two civil suits, one for sexual abuse and another for defamation. The two suits resulted in a total of $88.3 million in damages awarded to Carroll, both of which are under appeal. She has written five books including her latest, “Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President." She joi…

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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning: Jack Despain Zhou: in defense of tracking 1:16:24

7h ago1:16:24

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On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Jack Despain Zhou, executive director of the Center for Educational Progress (CEP). Despain Zhou is a graduate of Western Governors University, and is completing his J.D. at Temple University. A former cryptographic analyst for the US Air Force, Despain Zhou is better known as a former produce…

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Organized Money: The Coup at the Antitrust Division 46:00

8h ago46:00

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Last week, the journalist Sohrab Ahmari broke a story titled The Antitrust War Inside MAGA: Powerful Lobbyists Are Battling Populist Reformers. In it, he reported that the recent $14 billion deal in which Hewlett-Packard acquired its competitor, Juniper Networks, was quietly shepherded along with help from the Justice Department, complete with mart…

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The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish: Ryan Petersen: Building the Hidden Engine of Global Trade 1:40:59

9h ago1:40:59

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Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport, the platform that coordinates global logistics from factory floor to customer door. In this conversation, he’s refreshingly transparent about the mistakes and painful lessons he’s learned building several companies. He opens up about stepping down as CEO, his struggles with self-confidence, and what…

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The Dig: Chicago’s Left Experiment

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Featuring Alex Han, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor on Chicago’s left political experiment. In the wake of Zohran’s remarkable victory in New York, organizers all over the country are taking a close look at Chicago under Mayor Brandon Johnson. A Chicago Teachers Union leader elected in 2023, Johnson’s win was the culmination of ye…

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Bannon`s War Room: WarRoom Battleground EP 821: No FEMA Funds For Antisemitism; Rebuilding The Jobs Data

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WarRoom Battleground EP 821: No FEMA Funds For Antisemitism; Rebuilding The Jobs DataBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4682: Bondi Pushes For Investigation Into Clinton Russia Hoax; Arresting Texas Dems

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Episode 4682: Bondi Pushes For Investigation Into Clinton Russia Hoax; Arresting Texas DemsBy WarRoom.org

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The Gist: Pay to Play: The NCAA’s Big Payout Era Begins 35:29

1d ago35:29

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The NCAA’s $2.8 billion settlement doesn’t just change the rules—it rewrites the entire playbook. Mike talks with Gabe Feldman, director of Tulane’s Sports Law Program, about what happens now that schools can pay athletes directly. They get into how the money will be split, why Olympic sports are suddenly on the chopping block, and whether this new…

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 3552 - BLS Reports Slowing Economy, So Trump Fires the Chief; Resisting Authoritarianism w/ Daniel Hunter & Erica Chenoweth 1:37:58

16h ago1:37:58

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It’s Monday Fun Day on the Majority Report! On today’s show: Donald Trump claims the Bureau of Labor Statistics manipulated job reports to help Kamala Harris win the election—conveniently forgetting that last year he said those same reports were terrible for her. We’re joined by Daniel Hunter and Erica Chenoweth to discuss the shrinking window for …

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The Reason Roundtable: The New York Times Doesn't Understand Men 1:10:08

24m ago1:10:08

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This week, editors Peter Suderman and Matt Welch are joined by Reason reporter Eric Boehm and special guest Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party. They begin with the media's growing fixation on men and masculinity, from a wave of New York Times essays to broader questions about dating, education, and work. What does this coverage reveal about how t…

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The Eurasian Knot: City Symphonies 53:24

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What does it mean for the city to be a symphony? True, city symphonies are a silent film genre best represented by Dziga Vertov and Walter Ruttmann. These early silent films tried to capture the “sound” of the city by editing images symphonically–to give the viewer a sense of the urban soundscape. But, as Daniel Schwartz explains, early 20th centur…

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Changelog: The smell of vibe coding 7:33

2h ago7:33

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Alex Kondov knows when you’ve been vibe coding. (He can smell it.) our friends at Charm release a Go-based AI coding agent as a TUI, Jan Kammerath disassembled the “hacked’ Tea service’s Android app, Alex Ellman made a website that provides up-to-date pricing info for major LLM APIs, and Steph Ango suggests remote teams have “ramblings” channels. V…

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The Bulwark Podcast: Bill Kristol: This Is So Third World 56:41

2h ago56:41

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The boss only wants to hear good news: that's the takeaway from Trump's high-profile firing over the weak job numbers. So if a government worker has something bad to report, they now know they'll have to lie to keep their jobs. And this isn't only about key information on the economy—it's also about hurricane forecasts, intel threats, and potential…

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Odd Lots: Bill Beach on How Trump Just Politicized US Economic Data 24:29

1h ago24:29

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Late last week, Donald Trump shocked Wall Street by firing Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the agency responsible for publishing some of America's most important economic data. The firing came after the BLS released a weaker than expected jobs report for July, with just 73,000 new jobs added for the month (compared to …

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4681: Intel Confirms Clinton Plans To Smear Trump; CCP Inside The Fed

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Episode 4681: Intel Confirms Clinton Plans To Smear Trump; CCP Inside The FedBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4680: Democrats Flee Texas For Radical Far Left States; The McConnell Senate

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Episode 4680: Democrats Flee Texas For Radical Far Left States; The McConnell SenateBy WarRoom.org

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Letters from an American: August 3, 2025 8:48

2h ago8:48

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson

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Hillsdale College Podcast Network: The Road to the American Revolution, Part Five

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Once per week, Hillsdale College president Larry P. Arnn joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss Great Books, Great Men, and Great Ideas. This week: Interesting parallels between the lives of Presidents George Washington and Donald Trump, the early campaigns of the Continental Army, and the Battle of Bunker Hill. Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington…

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