The American Idea Podcast
The homepage for Ashbrook's official podcast, The American Idea, which explores America's Founding principles and their effect on American history and government. Through thoughtful conversations with renowned academics and public figures from across the country, we examine the history and political thought behind our country’s greatest documents and debates, as well as contemporary issues, American popular culture, and political statesmanship. Hosted by Jeff Sikkenga.
Capital Markets in America's History and Economy
September 3, 2025John Quincy Adams' Fight Against Slavery
August 27, 2025Frederick Douglass and the Anti-Slavery Constitution
August 20, 2025How did WW2 Really End? VJ Day at 80 Years
August 13, 2025Archive
Bush’s Second Inaugural Address and Its (Dis)Contents
Joseph M. Knippenberg
January 1, 2005
Judging Rumsfeld
Mackubin T. Owens
January 1, 2005
The "Troubled Vet" Returns
Mackubin T. Owens
December 23, 2004
Review of James Webb’s Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
Mackubin T. Owens
December 1, 2004