# Breaking History

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Author: The Free Press
Episodes: 55

## Resource

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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## Episodes
- [The Slow Death of Journalism, with Matt Taibbi](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/the-slow-death-of-journalism-with-matt-taibbi) — 2026-07-23T09:00:00+00:00
- [How the Democratic Socialists Conquered New York City](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/how-the-democratic-socialists-conquered-new-york-city) — 2026-06-30T09:00:00+00:00
- [Iran’s Favourite Washington Pundit](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/iran-s-favourite-washington-pundit) — 2026-06-12T09:00:00+00:00
- [Who Owns the Declaration of Independence?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/who-owns-the-declaration-of-independence) — 2026-05-27T09:00:00+00:00
- [A New Series From The Free Press | The Lindbergh Conspiracies](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/a-new-series-from-the-free-press-the-lindbergh-conspiracies) — 2026-05-19T09:00:00+00:00
- [What the Founders Really Meant to Say](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/what-the-founders-really-meant-to-say) — 2026-05-13T09:00:00+00:00
- [Roald Dahl: Genius and Bigot](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/roald-dahl-genius-and-bigot) — 2026-05-07T12:00:00+00:00
- [Eli Lake and David Rose: The UK Censorship Machine Eats Itself](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/eli-lake-and-david-rose-the-uk-censorship-machine-eats-itself) — 2026-05-01T09:00:00+00:00
- [Is This War Justified? Eli Lake Debates Iran with Robert Wright](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/is-this-war-justified-eli-lake-debates-iran-with-robert-wright) — 2026-04-16T09:00:00+00:00
- [Why Iran’s Reform Movement Failed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/why-iran-s-reform-movement-failed) — 2026-04-09T09:00:00+00:00
- [Eli Lake and Haviv Rettig Gur on Why Iran's Regime Is Hard to Kill](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/eli-lake-and-haviv-rettig-gur-on-why-iran-s-regime-is-hard-to-kill) — 2026-03-31T09:00:00+00:00
- [When ‘Good Kids’ Go Radical: A Breaking History Special](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/when-good-kids-go-radical-a-breaking-history-special) — 2026-03-27T08:00:00+00:00
- [Eli Lake and Andrew Sullivan Debate the Iran War](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/eli-lake-and-andrew-sullivan-debate-the-iran-war) — 2026-03-19T09:00:00+00:00
- [Modern Terrorism Was Born in the 1970s](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/modern-terrorism-was-born-in-the-1970s) — 2026-02-25T10:00:00+00:00
- [The Reluctant Prince: Can Reza Pahlavi Lead Iran’s Future? Q&A with Eli Lake](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/the-reluctant-prince-can-reza-pahlavi-lead-iran-s-future-q-a-with-eli-lake) — 2026-02-10T09:00:00+00:00
- [The Making of Modern Iran (Part 2) | The Red-Green Alliance](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/the-making-of-modern-iran-part-2-the-red-green-alliance) — 2026-01-14T10:15:00+00:00
- [The Making of Modern Iran (Part 1)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/the-making-of-modern-iran-part-1) — 2026-01-14T10:00:00+00:00
- [A History of Tough Jews](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/a-history-of-tough-jews) — 2025-12-22T10:00:00+00:00
- [From the Archives: Why Jews Wrote Your Favorite Christmas Songs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/from-the-archives-why-jews-wrote-your-favorite-christmas-songs) — 2025-12-10T10:00:00+00:00
- [How Clinton, Trump, and Epstein Rewired America’s Moral Compass](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/how-clinton-trump-and-epstein-rewired-america-s-moral-compass) — 2025-11-26T10:00:00+00:00
- [Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s Socrates](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/never-mind-the-bollocks-here-s-socrates) — 2025-11-12T09:00:00+00:00
- [Beautiful Losers: Mamdani & The End of Socialism’s Losing Streak](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/beautiful-losers-mamdani-the-end-of-socialism-s-losing-streak) — 2025-10-29T09:00:00+00:00
- [Trailer | Spiral: Murder in Detroit](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/trailer-spiral-murder-in-detroit) — 2025-10-21T08:00:00+00:00
- [London Falling: How the Birthplace of Free Speech Became a Censor’s Paradise](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/london-falling-how-the-birthplace-of-free-speech-became-a-censor-s-paradise) — 2025-10-15T08:00:00+00:00
- [James Comey: The Case That Could Break America](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-history-7169277/james-comey-the-case-that-could-break-america) — 2025-10-01T08:00:00+00:00

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