The Iranian Revolution of 1979 led to the creation of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the establishment of a new, radical Islamic state. More than two decades later, Iran’s political and social order is balanced on the relationship between the reform-minded President Mohammad Khatami-Ardakani and the conservative Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-Khamenei. Iran’s future remains [...]

On this week’s show, we relived the events of Patriots’ Day with the help of a program called “You Are There” that was presented 54 years ago over the CBS radio network. The program used the broadcast techniques of the day to recreate the seminal events of April 19th, 1775 — the battles of [...]

In his 2002 “State of the Union” speech, President Bush named Iraq as one of the three countries that make up an “axis of evil” in the world. As part of the war on terrorism, President Bush has also vowed publicly to remove Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, despite his father’s inability to do so during [...]

In the first part of this week’s show, we continued our discussion of race in America with a look at the origins and implications of racial identity with Boston University Professors of History Ronald Richardson and Allison Blakely.
The son of one of the most popular film stars of the silent era, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was [...]