Ben Sasse: The Nebraska senator on the state of American society and culture.
May 8, 2017 (Episode 84)

Harvey Mansfield: On the Senate's confirmation hearings for Neil Gorsuch and the relationship between politics and law.
April 24, 2017 (Episode 83)

N. Gregory Mankiw: The Harvard professor of economics on the American economy and why we need free markets.
April 9, 2017 (Episode 82)

Christopher Caldwell: The Weekly Standard Senior Editor analyzes the political, economic, and cultural situation in Europe today.
March 27, 2017 (Episode 81)

Vin Weber: On Reaganite internationalism, the election of Donald Trump, and the state of our parties.
March 13, 2017 (Episode 80)

David Axelrod: The 2016 elections, possible paths forward for Democrats & Republicans, & the early days of the Trump presidency.
February 27, 2017 (Episode 79)

Christopher DeMuth: On how the president, Congress, & courts might go about reforming the administrative state.
February 11, 2017 (Episode 78)

James Ceaser: On Donald Trump, our political parties, and the relationship between populism and conservatism.
January 29, 2017 (Episode 77)

Andrew Ferguson: The Weekly Standard senior editor on journalism, politics, culture, and the state of higher education.
January 16, 2017 (Episode 76)

Jonah Goldberg: On President-elect Donald Trump, the state of liberalism and conservatism in 2017, and American culture.
January 3, 2017 (Episode 75)

Harvey Mansfield: On Donald Trump and how political philosophy can inform our understanding of Trump and his election.
December 19, 2016 (Episode 74)

William Galston: On the 2016 elections, the populist moment, Trump's political prospects, and the Democrats.
December 5, 2016 (Episode 73)