Hosted by The Heartland Institute · EN-US · 114 episodes
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The Heartland Institute's podcast discussing notable new works with their authors. Hosted by Tim Benson.
The Heartland Institute hosts Ill Literacy: Books with Benson, a arts show with 114 episodes published.
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Philip K. Howard, Chair of Common Good, to discuss his latest book, Saving Can-Do: How to Revive the Spirit of America . They chat about how nothing works as it should because red tape
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined once again by Daniel J. Mahoney, professor emeritus at Assumption University and senior fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, to discu
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Harold Holzer, director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, to discuss his latest book, Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immi
In Episode 182 of Ill Literacy , Tim Benson talks with Jonathan W. White, co-editor of Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln . Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined once again by Jonathan W.
In Episode 181 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with Jonathan W. White, co-editor of From Dakota to Dixie: George Buswell's Civil War. Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined once again by Jonathan W. White, Professor of Ameri
In Episode 180 of Ill Literacy , Tim Benson talks with David Zweig, author of An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions . Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by David Zweig to discus
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Frank Trentmann, professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, to discuss his latest book, Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942–2022 . They chat about how a nation whose pa
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by David L. Roll, founder of the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, to discuss his latest book, Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World . They chat ab
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Brian VanDeMark, professor of history at the United States Naval Academy, to discuss his latest book, Kent State: An American Tragedy . They chat about the context of the divided cultu
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by David Reynolds, emeritus professor of international history at Christ’s College, Cambridge University, to discuss his latest book, Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who S
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Tyson Reeder, assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University, to discuss his new book, Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison's America .
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Richard Carwardine, Emeritus Rhodes Professor of American History and Distinguished Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University, to discuss his new book, Righteous
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Jeffrey Edward Green, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss his new book, B
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Yuval Levin, the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Pol
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Christine Rosen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and media commentary columnist at Commentary , to discuss her new book, The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Jonathan W. White, professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University, to discuss his new book, co-authored with William J. Griffing, A Great and Good Man: Rare, First-Han
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities, Treasury and Employment, and Federal Member for Fenner in the Australian Parliament, to discuss his book How Economics Expl
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Cara Rogers Stevens, associate professor of history at Ashland University, to discuss her book Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery . They chat about the evolution of Jeffers
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by renowned historian Richard Overy to discuss his new book, Why War? They chat about why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past, and indeed in the human presen
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Anthony Eames, director of scholarly initiatives at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, non-resident fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and professor
Philip K. Howard
Common Good
1 appearance on this show
Harold Holzer
1 appearance on this show
David Zweig
1 appearance on this show
Yuval Levin
editor-in-chief of National Affairs magazine, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute · American Enterprise Institute
1 appearance on this show
Christine Rosen
AEI Senior Fellow · The American Enterprise Institute
1 appearance on this show
Richard Overy
historian of the Second World War and expert on totalitarian regimes and military conflict
2 appearances on this show
Sergey Radchenko
Cold War historian
1 appearance on this show
Sean McMeekin
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Tevi Troy
Presidential historian
1 appearance on this show
Nick Lloyd
history tour guide
1 appearance on this show
Michael Kimmage
Professor of History · Catholic University of America
1 appearance on this show
David Stahel
historian, lecturer, author · University of New South Wales
1 appearance on this show
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