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Don’t Assume They Got It Right
Luke Nichter — a Hoover Institution Griffin Fellow and Presidential Studies chair at Chapman University — on Washington archives, court fights over Watergate’s records, and history's importance.
July 28, 2026
One Hundred years after the Treaty of Versailles ended World War I, Victor Davis Hanson argues that the effects of the agreement are widely misunderstood. In this episode, we look at Versailles in the context of the wider war (and the wartime diplomacy of the era), examine the American role in World War I, parse the claim that the First World War was little more than a tragic mistake, and scrutinize claims that modern geopolitical tensions have parallels to those of 1914.
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