Episode description

Our first speaker is Yale Historian Paul Kennedy. This is part 2 of our upcoming four-part history on WW2. I want to take you back to 1942 when nobody knew who would win the war. The Nazis had just conquered France after a few weeks of fighting, and the Americans had been humiliated at Pearl Harbor. U-Boats were everywhere in the Atlantic and were torpedoing America’s Merchant Marine. Paul will explain how the Allies successfully beat back the U-Boat threat in the Atlantic and why we fought Germany first.

Our second speaker will be Ilya Shapiro who recently resigned from Georgetown Law School after he was cancelled. Ilya did not support Biden’s decision to limit his Supreme Court nominee to exclusively African American women and he had to go.