On this week’s show, we took a look at two very different slices of diplomacy. First, we looked back in time at a remarkable group of diplomats from different countries, cultures and backgrounds, who risked their careers during WWII by helping Jewish families escape from the Nazis.
These righteous diplomats are being honored in a special [...]

John F. Kennedy once said:
There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can with the third.
What is American humor? How is laughter able to cross over the diverse populations of this melting pot of a nation? What constraints [...]

Former U.S. President Harry Truman once said: “The only thing new under the sun is the history we don’t know.”
On the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington, remembrance ceremonies and commemoration memorials were held all across the nation. But how will 9/11 be remembered in five, 50 or 100 years? [...]

For the postwar generation, the 9/11 tragedy has been called “Our Pearl Harbor.” But is it? There are major differences between the two events. More people were killed in New York and Washington on 9/11 than at Pearl Harbor. The 9/11 casualties were civilians, not soldiers and sailors. A country, Japan, not a shadowy extra-legal [...]

In 1952, the “Partisan Review,” one of America’s oldest and most respected literary and cultural journals, asked American intellectuals to assess the political and cultural changes brought about by the events following WWII. Earlier this year, the Partisan Review held another conference titled “Our Country, Our Culture,” which looked at how the last half-century has [...]