Pajamas Media's Deep Background with author Michael Knox Beran

To everything, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time for every purpose under heaven
The Byrds, "Turn, Turn, Turn," 1965.

(Yes, I know Pete Seeger wrote it.)

And now it's time for Blog Week in Review to turn into something else. The podcast has morphed into "Deep Background." Col. Austin Bay still is the moderator, and Ed Driscoll is the producer.

And the show's first guest is Michael Knox Beran, a contributing editor to City Journal magazine, and the author of Forge of Empires 1861-1871: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made.

In October Beran wrote a fabulous article for the City Journal, "How Lincoln Saved the World."

Beran discusses three great statesmen of the 1860s, Abraham Lincoln, Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck, and Czar Alexander II. Lincoln freed the slaves and saved the Union, Bismarck created the German state, and Alexander II freed the serfs. But only America has been a free nation since then, and contemporary Russia is slipping into a dictatorship. We all know what happened to Germany.

How did America succeed and the two others fall into darkness? Listen or download here to find out.

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