The planning and construction of Mount Rushmore took nearly two decades. In this episode, meet the minds and sculptors behind one of America’s most iconic landmarks..

The author of the Declaration of Independence, a strong voice for the defense of liberty, and the architect behind the largest territorial expansion in United States history, this episode examines Thomas Jefferson’s rightful place on Mount Rushmore..

"Let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away." - Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor of Mount Rushmore. Towering above the Black Hills of South Dakota stands America's most treasured monument...a crowning testament to the great leaders who symbolize...

The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years. All over the world, an astonishing proportion of people now work for Western-style companies, study at Western-style universities, vote for Western-style governments, take Western medicines, wear Western clothes, and even work Western hours. Yet six hundred years ago the petty kingdoms of Western Europe seemed...

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal authority. Under the regime of the so-called Brotherhood, two young people are publicly executed for having loved each other. In response, their mothers begin a secret correspondence, their only outlet for the grief they share and each woman's personal reckoning...

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In Death of a Nation, Dinesh D'Souza tackles the biggest lie of the left—that America is a society based on white supremacy. Now a major motion picture.
Who is killing America? Is it really Donald Trump and a GOP filled with white supremacists? In a major new work of historical revisionism, Dinesh D'Souza makes the provocative case that Democrats are the ones killing America

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"A series of talks Mario Vargas Llosa gave at Princeton in a class he cotaught with Rubén Gallo, covering the history of the novel, journalism, terrorism, and all of Vargas Llosa's best-known books"--