<p>What do the Republican Party's attacks on the American democratic process and Tolstoy's "War and Peace" have in common? Listen and find the answer to a question that is almost a 100 years old (93 years to be precise).</p>

Attack on Capitol Hill

Join Ilan Baron, a Professor of International Politics and Political Thought at Durham University in the UK, and Ethan Joselow, a health care policy wonk in Washington, DC, in their ongoing discussions about history, theory, politics, culture, and current events on a range of subjects that they think they know something about. After a couple of decades of correspondence, this team has decided they are hopelessly outnumbered by their opinions.