Avi Woolf
Host of Avi's Conversational Corner
Chief editor of Consevrative Pathways and writer at Arc Digital and The Bulwark.
Avi Woolf has hosted 69 Episodes.
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Episode 37 (Stumbling Colossus, 16): Show Me the Money
July 4th, 2022 | 48 mins 45 secs
Dr. George Selgin discusses how money was issued and provided before, during, and after the Gilded Age.
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Episode 36 (Stumbling Colossus, 15): A More Moral Nation
June 7th, 2022 | 27 mins 59 secs
Professor Gaines Foster discusses the motives, challenges, successes, and failures of the Christian moral lobbyists during the Gilded Age.
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Episode 35 (Stumbling Colossus, 14): Jobbery vs. Snobbery
May 30th, 2022 | 37 mins 37 secs
Professor Joe Postell discusses the debate between party control and technocratic control of government during the Gilded and Progressive Ages.
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Episode 34 (Stumbling Colossus, 13): The Battle of the Classics
April 27th, 2022 | 22 mins 27 secs
Prof. Eric Adler discusses the first great debate on the importance of studying "the best that has been thought and said" - and what we can learn about it for today.
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Episode 33 (Stumbling Colossus, 12): Gilded Mutual Aid
April 18th, 2022 | 24 mins 52 secs
Dr. David Beito discusses the ways in which Gilded Age Americans of all classes helped each other out when the government stood aside.
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Episode 32 (Stumbling Colossus, 11): TR's Wars
April 11th, 2022 | 28 mins 24 secs
Dr. David Pietrusza is back to discuss Theodore Roosevelt's single minded focus on war - and his paradoxical avoidance of the same at critical moments.
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Episode 31 (Stumbling Colossus, 10): US Shipping and the Jones Act
March 28th, 2022 | 29 mins 54 secs
Colin Grabow of the CATO Institute discusses the law, history, and future of American internal shipping, from the Gilded Age to today.
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Episode 30 (Stumbling Colossus, 9): Gilded Age Education
March 21st, 2022 | 37 mins 21 secs
Independent historian Kerry Ellard discusses the chaos and order in America's emerging public school system during the Gilded and Progressive Ages.
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Episode 29 (Stumbling Colossus, 8): Rome and America
March 14th, 2022 | 58 mins 52 secs
Professor James Patterson discusses the trials and triumphs and divisions within American Catholicism during the Gilded Age.
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Episode 28 (Stumbling Colossus, 7): Gilded Age Jews
March 7th, 2022 | 36 mins 5 secs
Professor Jonathan Sarna discusses the profound changes in Jewish life, culture, politics, and demographics during the Gilded Age and beyond.
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Episode 27 (Stumbling Collosus, 6): The Gilded Supreme Court
February 28th, 2022 | 32 mins 31 secs
Professor David Bernstein discusses the legal thinking of an often misunderstood Supreme Court ruling, and the "road not taken" in constitutional jurisprudence.
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Episode 26 (Stumbling Collosus, 5): The US Army
February 21st, 2022 | 36 mins 31 secs
Professor Wayne Hsieh discusses the importance and struggles of the American Army throughout our era, including funding, training, and different kinds of missions.
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Episode 25 (Stumbling Colossus, 4): Gold in the Hills
February 7th, 2022 | 50 mins 22 secs
Dr. Bob Hutton discusses the politics, society and economy of Appalachia in the Gilded and Progressive Ages.
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Episode 24 (Stumbling Colossus, 3): Gilded, Dusty Texas
January 31st, 2022 | 52 mins 15 secs
Dr. Brian Cervantez discusses the diversity and change, ethos and mythos of Gilded and Progressive Age Texas.
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Episode 23 (Stumbling Colossus, 2): For God and Country
January 19th, 2022 | 42 mins 44 secs
cities, gilded age, midwest, politics, race
Dr. Miles Smith discusses how Protestant America went from elation at the end of the Civil War to dread over their future at the end of WWI.
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Episode 22 (Stumbling Colossus, 1): The WASPs
January 10th, 2022 | 1 hr 2 mins
antisemitism, higher education, politics, protestantism, race
Professor Samuel Goldman discusses the rise, fall, and legacy of one of America's great self-appointed elites.