The Court of History

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview Anne Applebaum, staff writer for The Atlantic and author of Autocracy, Inc., about the downfall of Viktor Orban in Hungary, how the American right was implicated with his authoritarian regime, including Trump, JD Vance and Marco Rubio, what Orban’s defeat foretells for Trump and Maga, the deep corruption exposed, and how Ukraine emerges as stronger.

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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Alastair Campbell, former strategist and press secretary for PM Tony Blair, and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast, on how King Charles should manage the fake US king Donald Trump, and the true story of Trump’s tragic immigrant Scottish mother.

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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Alastair Campbell, former strategist and press secretary for PM Tony Blair, and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast, about King Charles’ awkward visit to the US, how he has to handle Trump’s ego, and Trump’s rupture of the US-UK “special relationship.”

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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s column in The Guardian on Trump’s escalating rhetoric into “incitement to genocide” as he flounders in his Iran War.

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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz unravel Clarence Thomas’ weird speech on the Declaration of Independence and trace it back to its sources in the John Birch Society and a host of bizarre extremists.

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