Breaking History

Eli Lake

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Booking Overview

A history and current-affairs interview show that typically features established journalists, historians, authors, and public-policy commentators examining contemporary politics through historical context. Credible pitches include authors of history and political books, investigative reporters, former national-security officials, foreign-policy experts, and scholars with distinctive interpretations of American or international affairs; booking difficulty is high due to the show’s selective editorial focus and caliber of guests.

Metrics

Episodes: 54

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 463.0k subscribers

Instagram: 666.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Eli Lake - Journalist and writer focused on national security, foreign policy, politics, and the historical forces shaping current events.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Published journalists, historians, authors, former government or national-security officials, and policy experts with authoritative knowledge of major political or historical subjects.
Required Achievements:  
Published books or major investigative work, Senior journalism, government, or academic experience, Recognized expertise in history, politics, foreign policy, or national security

Recent Guest Discussions

Harry Siegel - The Democratic Socialists Of America’s Organizing Strategy And Its Influence On New York City Politics.

Jay Solomon - Iranian Influence Operations, Washington Foreign-policy Networks, And The Trita Parsi Investigation.

Michael Anton - The Declaration Of Independence, Harry Jaffa’s Political Philosophy, And Competing Interpretations Of The American Founding.

Recent Topics

History, Politics, Foreign Policy, Journalism, American Founding

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Breaking History
:

How the Democratic Socialists Conquered New York City

June 30, 2026

Back in October, we traced the founding of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in our episode “Beautiful Losers: Mamdani & the End of Socialism’s Losing Streak.” Now, with Zohran Mamdani’s allies sweeping three congressional primaries in New York, we’re back for a follow-up. In this episode, journalist Harry Siegel outlines how the DSA spent the better part of a decade building the machine that just reshuffled New York City politics—from post-Trump organizing drives and close-but-no-ci...

Iran’s Favourite Washington Pundit

June 12, 2026

Journalist Jay Solomon is back on the show this week to discuss his latest explosive investigation into Trita Parsi, the Iranian-born, Swedish-raised lobbyist who spent 20 years at the center of Washington’s foreign policy debate over Iran. Parsi built two influential organizations, cultivated powerful allies on both left and right, and consistently pushed a line on Iran that looked remarkably like the one coming out of Tehran’s foreign ministry. Now the Marco Rubio State Department is taki...

Who Owns the Declaration of Independence?

May 27, 2026

As America approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, a quiet war is being waged over what the Declaration of Independence really means — with some on the new right dismissing it as globalist fantasy and some on the left reducing it to a document written by slaveholders. Writer and former national security official Michael Anton joins Eli Lake to examine the ideas of Harry Jaffa, a Brooklyn-born philosopher who spent his career insisting that the Declaration's truths are not relics of ...

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