Martin Di Caro
@martindicaro.bsky.social
Host of History As It Happens podcast
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Learn how the past shapes the present with the world's best historians. Everything happening today comes from something, somewhere, so let's start thinking historically about current events. History A...
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Historian Lindsay Chervinsky traces the history of press-president relationships. Sometimes chummy, always tense, often hostile:
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Presidents vs. the Press
Podcast Episode · History As It Happens · 11/14/2025 · 43m
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November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Historian Lindsay Chervinsky traces the history of press-president relationships. Sometimes chummy, always tense, often hostile:
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'House of Dynamite' on @netflix is making us think about some old truths. Namely, there is no defense against ICBM attack:
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Playing With Dynamite
Podcast Episode · History As It Happens · 11/11/2025 · 43m
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November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
'House of Dynamite' on @netflix is making us think about some old truths. Namely, there is no defense against ICBM attack:
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As the factional fighting on the right continues, let's revisit my conversation with @PhilWMagness about the influence of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, who had no use for parliamentary democracy.
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Bonus Ep! Who Was Carl Schmitt?
Podcast Episode · History As It Happens · 10/29/2025 · 12m
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November 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
As the factional fighting on the right continues, let's revisit my conversation with @PhilWMagness about the influence of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, who had no use for parliamentary democracy.
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Yesterday I interviewed Dan Ephron, the executive editor of Foreign Policy.
He was at the 1995 peace rally where Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot to death by a religious-nationalist assassin, Yigal Amir. Episode coming next week.
He was at the 1995 peace rally where Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot to death by a religious-nationalist assassin, Yigal Amir. Episode coming next week.
November 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Yesterday I interviewed Dan Ephron, the executive editor of Foreign Policy.
He was at the 1995 peace rally where Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot to death by a religious-nationalist assassin, Yigal Amir. Episode coming next week.
He was at the 1995 peace rally where Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot to death by a religious-nationalist assassin, Yigal Amir. Episode coming next week.
As the factional fighting on the right continues, let's revisit my conversation with @PhilWMagness about the influence of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, who had no use for parliamentary democracy.
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Bonus Ep! Who Was Carl Schmitt?
Podcast Episode · History As It Happens · 10/29/2025 · 12m
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November 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
As the factional fighting on the right continues, let's revisit my conversation with @PhilWMagness about the influence of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, who had no use for parliamentary democracy.
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'House of Dynamite' on @netflix is making us think about some old truths. Namely, there is no defense against ICBM attack:
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Playing With Dynamite
Podcast Episode · History As It Happens · 11/11/2025 · 43m
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November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
'House of Dynamite' on @netflix is making us think about some old truths. Namely, there is no defense against ICBM attack:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Historian Lindsay Chervinsky traces the history of press-president relationships. Sometimes chummy, always tense, often hostile:
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Presidents vs. the Press
Podcast Episode · History As It Happens · 11/14/2025 · 43m
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November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Historian Lindsay Chervinsky traces the history of press-president relationships. Sometimes chummy, always tense, often hostile:
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The tension's always been there.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The tension's always been there.
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Just about every president has complained about the news media. Some even shut down newspapers and censored information.
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History As It Happens: Presidents vs. the Press
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November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Just about every president has complained about the news media. Some even shut down newspapers and censored information.
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Whatever its flaws, the @netflix hit 'House of Dynamite' has an important warning as another nuclear arms race takes off.
It's an old warning: there's no defense against ICBMs.
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It's an old warning: there's no defense against ICBMs.
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Playing With Dynamite
Podcast Episode · History As It Happens · 11/11/2025 · 43m
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November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Whatever its flaws, the @netflix hit 'House of Dynamite' has an important warning as another nuclear arms race takes off.
It's an old warning: there's no defense against ICBMs.
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It's an old warning: there's no defense against ICBMs.
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Some scenes in @netflix's 'House of Dynamite' are on the money. As in, a lot of money spent on a missile defense system that doesn't protect the United States.
@joecirin.bsky.social on the terrifying scenario raised by the film:
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@joecirin.bsky.social on the terrifying scenario raised by the film:
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History As It Happens: Playing With Dynamite
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November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Some scenes in @netflix's 'House of Dynamite' are on the money. As in, a lot of money spent on a missile defense system that doesn't protect the United States.
@joecirin.bsky.social on the terrifying scenario raised by the film:
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@joecirin.bsky.social on the terrifying scenario raised by the film:
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Yes, a nuclear war could start by accident. The important warning inside Netflix’s ‘House of Dynamite’ with @joecirin.bsky.social
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History As It Happens: Playing With Dynamite
to skip ads, get bonus content, and enjoy access to the entire catalog of 500 episodes. Keep the narrative flow going! The hit Netflix film "House of Dynamite" depicts a terrifying scenario. The Unite...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Yes, a nuclear war could start by accident. The important warning inside Netflix’s ‘House of Dynamite’ with @joecirin.bsky.social
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Dick Cheney was a driving force behind decisions that harmed hundreds of thousands of people: dead, wounded, displaced. He backed torture and rendition. He pushed falsehoods to send our nation to war.
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History As It Happens: Dick Cheney's Ruinous Legacy
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November 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Dick Cheney was a driving force behind decisions that harmed hundreds of thousands of people: dead, wounded, displaced. He backed torture and rendition. He pushed falsehoods to send our nation to war.
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New episode of History As It Happens ->
We're living in the age of the 'unitary executive,' a ruinous aspect of Dick Cheney's legacy.
w/ historian Jeremi Suri:
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We're living in the age of the 'unitary executive,' a ruinous aspect of Dick Cheney's legacy.
w/ historian Jeremi Suri:
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History As It Happens: Dick Cheney's Ruinous Legacy
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November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
New episode of History As It Happens ->
We're living in the age of the 'unitary executive,' a ruinous aspect of Dick Cheney's legacy.
w/ historian Jeremi Suri:
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We're living in the age of the 'unitary executive,' a ruinous aspect of Dick Cheney's legacy.
w/ historian Jeremi Suri:
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The time I interviewed Kevin Roberts of Heritage Foundation about slavery and the Constitution, as well as the way history is interpreted at museums and places like Monticello. Roberts has a Ph.D. in American history.
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History As It Happens: Slavery and the Constitution: Kevin Roberts
This is the fifth installment in an occasional series focusing on slavery, the Constitution, and the current debate over the meaning of America’s founding. Visitors to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s m...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The time I interviewed Kevin Roberts of Heritage Foundation about slavery and the Constitution, as well as the way history is interpreted at museums and places like Monticello. Roberts has a Ph.D. in American history.
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As New York is about to elect a democratic socialist mayor...
A century ago, socialists governed many American cities, including Milwaukee for the better part of 50 years:
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A century ago, socialists governed many American cities, including Milwaukee for the better part of 50 years:
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History As It Happens: When Socialists Ran American Cities
Keep the narrative flow going! for ad-free listening, bonus content, and access to the entire catalog of 500 episodes. The Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is the favorite to be elected New Y...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
As New York is about to elect a democratic socialist mayor...
A century ago, socialists governed many American cities, including Milwaukee for the better part of 50 years:
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A century ago, socialists governed many American cities, including Milwaukee for the better part of 50 years:
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Remember when Donald Trump mused about invading Panama? Seemed insane, yes?
Remember when the United States actually invaded Panama and arrested its leader, a former CIA asset?
w/ historian Alex Aviña:
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Remember when the United States actually invaded Panama and arrested its leader, a former CIA asset?
w/ historian Alex Aviña:
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History As It Happens: Noriega and New World Order
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November 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Remember when Donald Trump mused about invading Panama? Seemed insane, yes?
Remember when the United States actually invaded Panama and arrested its leader, a former CIA asset?
w/ historian Alex Aviña:
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Remember when the United States actually invaded Panama and arrested its leader, a former CIA asset?
w/ historian Alex Aviña:
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New episode of History As It Happens -->
When we reflect upon the 'new world order' of the early 1990s, we usually think of Saddam and Kuwait. Why not Noriega and Panama?
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When we reflect upon the 'new world order' of the early 1990s, we usually think of Saddam and Kuwait. Why not Noriega and Panama?
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History As It Happens: Noriega and New World Order
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October 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
New episode of History As It Happens -->
When we reflect upon the 'new world order' of the early 1990s, we usually think of Saddam and Kuwait. Why not Noriega and Panama?
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When we reflect upon the 'new world order' of the early 1990s, we usually think of Saddam and Kuwait. Why not Noriega and Panama?
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Nazi Carl Schmitt despised liberalism because it impeded the leader's arbitrary decision-making. It's therefore not surprising that Schmitt's popular on the American right. Phil Magness on the enduring influence of the Third Reich's chief legal theorist:
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History As It Happens: Bonus Ep! Who Was Carl Schmitt?
to listen to the entire episode. Enjoy all bonus content for $5 per month! Carl Schmitt was a German legal theorist who joined the Nazi Party after Hitler achieved power. Schmitt supplied legal justif...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Nazi Carl Schmitt despised liberalism because it impeded the leader's arbitrary decision-making. It's therefore not surprising that Schmitt's popular on the American right. Phil Magness on the enduring influence of the Third Reich's chief legal theorist:
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I am pretty sure this is the first time I have been on an entertainment news show. I talk to the hosts of TMZ tonight about A House of Dynamite and why the Pentagon is so upset with this Netflix film. You can watch it in the DC area at 7:30pm tonight on Fox 5. www.tmz.com/watch/
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October 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I am pretty sure this is the first time I have been on an entertainment news show. I talk to the hosts of TMZ tonight about A House of Dynamite and why the Pentagon is so upset with this Netflix film. You can watch it in the DC area at 7:30pm tonight on Fox 5. www.tmz.com/watch/
Since he crashed the American political scene in 2016, Donald Trump has been called a mafia boss, fascist, authoritarian, and other labels in an attempt to define him and his movement.
Is he an elected monarch? I spoke to Joseph Ellis:
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Is he an elected monarch? I spoke to Joseph Ellis:
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History As It Happens: Rumors of a King
to skip ads, get bonus content, and enjoy access to the entire catalog of 500 episodes. The "No Kings" protests across America were aimed at President Donald Trump's mounting abuses of power, based on...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Since he crashed the American political scene in 2016, Donald Trump has been called a mafia boss, fascist, authoritarian, and other labels in an attempt to define him and his movement.
Is he an elected monarch? I spoke to Joseph Ellis:
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Is he an elected monarch? I spoke to Joseph Ellis:
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My conversation with Joseph Ellis about Trump and the American republic:
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History As It Happens: Rumors of a King
to skip ads, get bonus content, and enjoy access to the entire catalog of 500 episodes. The "No Kings" protests across America were aimed at President Donald Trump's mounting abuses of power, based on...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
My conversation with Joseph Ellis about Trump and the American republic:
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historyasithappens.libsyn.com/rumors-of-a-... #Trump