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Season Three

1. Jennifer Hernandez, Holland & Knight LLP, author, “Green Jim Crow: How California’s Climate Policies Undermine Civil Rights and Racial Equity,” Breakthrough Journal, Summer 2021.
2. Samuel Goldman, George Washington University, author, After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division. 
3. John Roy. Price, author, The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider’s Perspective on Nixon’s Surprising Social Policy.
4. Aaron M. Renn, Contributing Editor, City Journal, former Senior Fellow Manhattan Institute; Meritocracy and its Discontents.
5. Stephen Wertheim, Columbia University, Quincy Institute, author, Tomorrow the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy
6. Steven B. Smith, Yale University, author, Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes.
7. Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian (Pulitzer Prize Finalist), designer and chief executive of presidential libraries.
8. John M. Cooper, professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

Season Two

1. Howard Behar, former president, Starbucks International, author, It’s Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks.
2. General H.R. McMaster, former US National Security Adviser, author, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World. 
3. Katherine M. Gehl, co-author (with Michael E. Porter), The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy.
4. Theresa M. Lina, author, Be the Go-To: How to Own Your Competitive Market, Charge More, and Have Customers Love You For It.
5. Larry Kamer, co-founder, Kamer Consulting Group, Crisis Leadership in the 21st Century.
6. Andrew Roberts, author, Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History; and Churchill: Walking with Destiny.
7. Mark J. Plotkin, PhD., President of the Amazon Conservation Team, author, The Amazon—What Everyone Needs to Know.
8. Michael Lind, University of Texas at Austin, author, The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Managerial Elite.
9. Daniel Esty, Yale University, author, A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future.
10. Tom Peters, legendary management thinker and author, The Excellence Dividend, on Leadership in Business and Beyond.

Season One

1. Michael Traynor, President Emeritus, American Law Institute. The State of the Lawyer-Statesman Ideal.
2. Naomi Wolf, activist and author, Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love.
3. Derek Leebaert, author, Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-57.
4. Anne Snyder, author, The Fabric of Character; editor-in-chief, Comment Magazine.
5. Matt Lewis, political and cultural commentator, conservative pundit, podcaster, and columnist for The Daily Beast. Conservativism, Republicanism and the Trump Moment.
6. Professor Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University, Spogli Institute. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment.
7. Professor Alex Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley. Black holes, Future of Space Exploration.

Intro: Roosevelt, Theodore, and Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection. The Right of the People to Rule. New York: Thomas A. Edison, March 20, 1912. Audio. 

Outro: Churchill, Winston, and International Churchill Society. Never Give In (These Are Great Days). Harrow School, October 29, 1941. Audio. 

Producer: Thomas LaDuke.

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