Lawyers, Guns & Money

LSU Tigers Football vs Florida State Gators, Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, NCAA College Team, SEC – Tammy Anthony Baker, Photographer, FB: tammyanthonybaker X: tmabaker Inst: tabinla Who is as ready for the NFL Draft as we here at LGM? No one! Scott, Rob, and I sat down last night to hash through a bunch of the issues in the draft, including the state of the quar

Last week Cheryl and I had the opportunity to speak with Kathleen McInnis, Senior Fellow in the International Security Program and Director of the Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. We talked about the Russia-Ukraine War, the glacial progress towards an aid agreement in the US House of Representatives, the 75th anniversar

The Oral History of the Blogosphere series is back! Scott and I had the good fortune to sit down with Laura McKenna of Apt. 11D. We talked the (sometimes pourous) boundaries of the academic, political, and mommy blogospheres, the process of learning how to write for a non-academic audience, the opportunities that participating in the Golden Age of the Blogosphere could open up

On the latest LGM podcast I had the good fortune to sit down with Aidan Dodson, author of the Windfall Battleships: Agincourt, Canada, Erin, Eagle and the Balkan and Latin-American Arms Races. We talk through the Navalism of the first two decades of the twentieth century, which helped generate a procurement environment in which a country like Chile could contemplate the acquis

By Tomás Del Coro – https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasdelcoro/51205888254/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=121504643 In our conversation about the Big Game, Scott, Erik and I touched upon: * The late, great (sic) Toby Keith, * The grandest entries in the Very Special Sitcom Episodes of the 1980s genre, * Flight upgrade policies,

For our latest podcast, we talked to Pamela Riney-Kehrberg from Iowa State University about her recent book When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s. This was a wide-ranging conversation that explored, among other things, the connections between the farm crisis and the manufacturing crisis of the same time, the culture of individualism among farme

Rob and I were excited to talk to Elizabeth about the fantastic new Paranoid Style album The Interrogator. And Anna Wintour’s attack on Pitchfork, and playing live in Athens later this month, and Doug Yule, and no-money-in-this-deal professions, and stuff like that there. With the addition of Peter Holsapple the new album is the best musical framing for Elizabeth̵

For the latest LGM podcast Erik and I had the opportunity to sit down with Chris Yogerst, author of the Warner Brothers, a new history of the Warner family and of the studio that they created. We cover a lot of ground, including the founding and early history of the studio, the nature of the relationship between the film business and technology, and the relevance of the modern

Earlier this week Rob and I chatted with occasional LGM contributor and Reed College political science professor Chris Koski about the electoral landscape and prospects for 2024. A range of topics are covered, including the ongoing racial depolarization in the Trump era and where it might be headed, the state of polling, and more. Have a listen if you’re into that sort o