TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews Bruce Frohnen, co-editor of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, which serves as the first comprehensive reference volume to cover what is surely the most influential political and intellectual movement of the last half century.

[18 minutes, 07 seconds]

TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews Jim Geraghty, author of Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership, which explores how recent elections have given the Republican Party its greatest political success since the 1920's.

[27 minutes, 07 seconds]

This week's guest is New York Post columnist Ryan Sager, who discusses his new book, The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party, which explores the splits and potential fusions between fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, libertarians, and "big government conservatives."

[33 minutes, 01 seconds]

This week's guest is former Marxist Dierdre McCloskey, a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago who argues that capitalism - rather than being evil or even neutral - tends to improve people and to even encourage art!

[30 minutes, 0 seconds]

In part 2 of 2, Frederick Turner, author of Natural Religion, describes the spiritual journey that led him to believe that all religions could be true.

[21 minutes, 52 seconds]