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Episode: #05139
Nicholas Thompson describes the lives of two friends -- Paul Nitze and George Kennan -- battling over the U.S. approach to the Cold War. (05:32)
Episode: #05119
Jon Ronson explains why the U.S. military trained soldiers to use sparkly eyes on the enemy and kill goats with their minds. (04:24)
Episode: #05104
General Tony Zinni cites David Petraeus, Barack Obama and Richard Branson as examples of great leaders. (05:07)
Episode: #05089
Kevin Mattson discusses the relevance of Jimmy Carter's underappreciated "national malaise" speech. (06:03)
Episode: #05084
Simon Schama admits that out of all the countries' histories he's covered, the United States has the greatest. (06:45)
Episode: #05059
Jonathan Alter tells Stephen how Obama's first 14 Mondays stack up against FDR's. (04:49)
Episode: #04129
Joseph Stiglitz explains why the economic crisis won't end just because the stock market does well. (06:24)
Episode: #04106
Bing West says the soldiers did such a good job in Iraq that they changed the nature of the war. (05:26)
Episode: #04074
Pat Buchanan believes World War II was the easiest war to avoid in all of history. (6:21)
Episode: #04071
Media, if you want to prove you did your job well in the lead-up to the Iraq war, use the same techniques that McClellan used to sell the war to you in the first place. (4:14)
Episode: #04067
Andrei Cherny explains how America prevented the spread of Communism by dropping candy bars. (5:42)
Episode: #03132
Author Bob Drogin explains how poor information from a taxi driver named Curveball has led to the worst intelligence and foreign policy failure in America's history. (5:10)
Episode: #03123
Stephen wonders if we're preparing for war with Iran, questions whether sleep deprivation can kill you and hopes we can feed the press corps to the lions. (0:36)
Episode: #03100
Stephen is appalled that the defense department would undermine our troops' self-confidence by sending them ThighMasters. (1:19)
Episode: #03099
Michael Beschloss explains why historians don't immediately judge history as soon as it happens. (5:59)
Episode: #03085
Tom Hayden, author of "Ending the War in Iraq," was one of the Chicago Seven. He's about to meet all of the Colbert One. (6:10)
Episode: #03062
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book, "The Black Swan," is about the power of randomness. Coincidentally, he was also the winner of Stephen's Pull a Guest Out of a Hat Sweepstakes. (5:56)
Episode: #03047
Stephen discusses Islam with author Vali Nasr and breaks the big news from the annual leatherback turtle migration. (0:34)
Episode: #03037
Prisoners can donate organs in South Carolina, senior citizens speak out against the war in Iraq, and Stephen speaks with author Jerome Groopman (0:30)
Episode: #03034
Michael Eric Dyson explains the difference between racism and bigotry and assures Stephen that he's probably got a few black relatives. (6:01)
