Breaking History - Introducing: Breaking History

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world today is confusing. CNN has learned President Biden will pardon his son, Hunter Biden. Chaotic. Take a look at what happened. Unpredictable. We do want to get to that breaking news out of Syria this morning. The Syrian government has fallen. President Bashar Assad has been overthrown.

Bizarre. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. And at times... Nuclear saber rattling from the Kremlin this morning with Vladimir Putin appearing to threaten to use nuclear weapons... Terrifying. But chances are, whatever crisis is currently blowing up your phone, it's probably happened before. We'll restore hope and we'll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America

great again. From the free press, this is Breaking History. I'm Eli Lake, and I'm here to help explain the world today to the world of yesterday. Because before there was the Columbia Tentifada, there was the Weather Underground. There's no way to be committed to nonviolence in the middle of the most violent society that history's ever created. I'm not committed to nonviolence in any way. Before there was Donald Trump. It's the enemy from within, all the scum that we have to deal with, that hate our country, that's a bigger enemy than China and Russia. There was Huey Long.

How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for nine-tenths of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to... And before there was Russiagate... This is part of a concerted Russian influence operation that never stopped. There was the Red Scare. The Communist Party of the United States is a fifth column if there ever was one. Starting January 22nd and every other Wednesday,

I'm going to break down the news by breaking down history. Because as George Santayana warned, those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Join us as we remember, rediscover, or maybe learn it for the very first time. Subscribe to Breaking History on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. See you on January 22nd.

I know it seems we have no hope, can't take it anymore. See you on January 22nd.