Avi's Conversational Corner
A podcast on culture, history, and politics in a broad perspective
About the show
Welcome! Here I will talk to a range of people on issues which interest me and I hope you, from religious slogans and wargaming to deeper political ideas to forgotten historical episodes. Bring up a chair, get comfortable, and enjoy!
- Avi
Episodes
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Episode 42 (Stumbling Colossus, 21): The Rise of the US Navy
October 13th, 2022 | 42 mins 44 secs
Dr. James Rentfrow explains the growth, challenges, and direction of the US Navy as America became a rising power.
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Episode 41 (Stumbling Colossus, 20): The Populist Alternative
August 22nd, 2022 | 37 mins 57 secs
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Episode 40 (Stumbling Colossus, 19): Reed's House Rules
August 15th, 2022 | 22 mins 20 secs
Prof. Robert Klotz discusses the impact of Thomas Brackett Reed's majoritarian House rules on American politics.
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Episode 39 (Stumbling Colossus, 18): Controlling Urban Chaos
August 8th, 2022 | 29 mins 30 secs
Zoning Expert Nolan Gray discusses the good and bad of life before zoning in America - and whether we should go back.
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Episode 38 (Stumbling Colossus, 17): Gilded Germans
August 1st, 2022 | 29 mins 50 secs
Prof. Kampheofner discusses the trials and triumphs of one of America's lesser known major immigrant communities during the Gilded Age.
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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.