Breaking History  

Sometimes the news moves so fast, you have to look closely to know if you’ve seen it before. And that’s what this show is about. Breaking History breaks down the news, by breaking down history. We cover everything from LBJ and the Roman Republic to Donald Trump and the chaos at Columbia. This twice a month show from The Free Press delivers the best historians, authors, and reporters by mining the archives of human experience to figure out the present. George Santayana wrote, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Tune in to Breaking History to resist the repetition. 

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Title	Date published
Who Owns the Declaration of Independence?	2026-05-27
A New Series From The Free Press | The Lindbergh Conspiracies	2026-05-19
What the Founders Really Meant to Say	2026-05-13
Roald Dahl: Genius and Bigot	2026-05-07
Eli Lake and David Rose: The UK Censorship Machine Eats Itself	2026-05-01
Is This War Justified? Eli Lake Debates Iran with Robert Wright	2026-04-16
Why Iran’s Reform Movement Failed	2026-04-09
Eli Lake and Haviv Rettig Gur on Why Iran's Regime Is Hard to Kill	2026-03-31
When ‘Good Kids’ Go Radical: A Breaking History Special	2026-03-27
Eli Lake and Andrew Sullivan Debate the Iran War	2026-03-19
Modern Terrorism Was Born in the 1970s	2026-02-25
The Reluctant Prince: Can Reza Pahlavi Lead Iran’s Future? Q&A with Eli Lake	2026-02-10
The Making of Modern Iran (Part 2) | The Red-Green Alliance	2026-01-14
The Making of Modern Iran (Part 1)	2026-01-14
A History of Tough Jews	2025-12-22
From the Archives: Why Jews Wrote Your Favorite Christmas Songs	2025-12-10
How Clinton, Trump, and Epstein Rewired America’s Moral Compass	2025-11-26
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s Socrates	2025-11-12
Beautiful Losers: Mamdani & The End of Socialism’s Losing Streak	2025-10-29
Trailer | Spiral: Murder in Detroit	2025-10-21

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