Episode 13 – A Redemption Carol ** Rating caveat, this episode only: adult situations / language *** With all apologies to Charles Dickens, in this episode, we abandon reality for our very own Seasonal Scrooge Satire.

Episode 12 – Let’s take a Quiz! Back in Episode 1, I cited the “Politically Challenged” video made in 2014 by a student political interest group at Texas Tech University. The group ran around campus asking the other college students questions about our...

Episode 11 – Out of the Jaws of Victory – Racism, Part 2 Back in Episode 4, we looked at the elephant in our country, Racism, and I called it Part 1. It was, typical of me and this podcast, a broad vertical history of racism from our earliest American ...

Episode 10 The Bill of Rights Guarantees of personal liberties were not in the original US Constitution. They were added as the first amendments to the document by the 1st Congress a year and a half later. References: Bill of Rights Institute – The Bil...

Episode 9 – American Identity What does it mean to be an American? In America, everyone except the indigenous people of this continent came from somewhere else within the last several hundred years. Our country is called a melting pot and that’s an apt...

Episode 8 – Suffrage and Women’s Rights It’s March and Women’s History Month, so it’s a good time to think about women’s citizenship. We link citizenship strongly with voting, and it hasn’t been quite 100 years since women have had the right to vote in...

Episode 7 – Political Parties They may seem the bane of our existence, with all the rancor and partisan stonewalling going on in Washington and in the country right now. In this episode we take a look at how parties started in the U.S.

Episode 6 – Rule of Law Rule of Law is the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced; the principle of government by law. In this episode, we trace human and American history,

Episode 5 E Pluribus Unum — that’s the motto of the United States. What it means in Latin is “out of many, one” and it comes from the idea that we are separate states united under one country. That was an idea codified in the US Constitution.

I’ve been traveling for work, so am a little behind on my plan to publish a new episode each month. So, I’m posting this short cast on how I came to start this podcast. Reference for this bonus episode: Washington Post article of May 24,