Breaking History

Eli Lake

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Booking Overview

This is a twice-monthly history-and-current-affairs interview show that regularly features established journalists, authors, and historians examining contemporary politics through historical context. Credible pitches include investigative reporters, political historians, foreign-policy experts, and authors with original research or strong subject-matter expertise; booking difficulty is high because the show favors prominent, publication-ready voices.

Metrics

Episodes: 56

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 463.0k subscribers

Instagram: 666.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

candace@thefp.com

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Host

Eli Lake - Journalist and commentator covering American politics, national security, foreign policy, and media.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Established journalists, investigative reporters, historians, authors, and foreign-policy experts with authoritative expertise and original reporting or research.
Required Achievements:  
Published books or major investigations, Substantial reporting or scholarship on politics, history, foreign policy, or media, Recognition as an authoritative commentator or subject-matter expert

Recent Guest Discussions

Matt Taibbi - Government Influence Over Online Speech, Post-2016 Censorship Debates, The Hunter Biden Laptop Story, Covid-era Misinformation Enforcement, And The Current Information Environment.

Harry Siegel - The Founding And Expansion Of The Democratic Socialists Of America, Post-trump Organizing, New York Congressional Primaries, And The Movement’s Influence On The Democratic Party.

Jay Solomon - Trita Parsi’s Influence In Washington, Iranian Foreign-policy Networks, The Iran Experts Initiative, And Related Immigration And Legal Controversies.

Recent Topics

History, Journalism, Politics, Foreign Policy, Government

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Breaking History
:

Why the Future of Education Won’t Come from the Ivy League

August 06, 2026

Peter Berkowitz returns to the show to trace the slow collapse of liberal education in America, all in his new book, Reclaiming Liberal Education in America. In this episode, he and Eli Lake walk through 50 years of ideological capture, from the campus radicals of the 1960s who became the tenured professors of the 1980s, to the speech codes of the 1990s, to October 7, 2023, as the moment it all came into full view. Along the way, they dig into the French postmodernists who gutted academic sta...

The Slow Death of Journalism, with Matt Taibbi

July 23, 2026

Matt Taibbi has spent the better part of a decade documenting one of the most underreported stories in American media: how the federal government built a shadow infrastructure to shape what people could say and read online. In this episode, Eli Lake sits down with Taibbi to trace the full journey. It starts with the post-2016 Senate hearings that spooked Silicon Valley into compliance, and it ends with the chaotic information environment we live in today. They also dig into the Hunter Biden l...

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...

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