Not Dead Yet

Ben Sasse, Chris Stirewalt

Booking Overview

This is an interview podcast about meaningful lives, history, leadership, and the American experience, featuring prominent historians, military and government leaders, journalists, economists, and documentary filmmakers. Credible pitches include published historians, senior public servants, military leaders, acclaimed filmmakers, and established writers with substantive perspectives on character, public life, or history; booking difficulty is high because recent guests are highly accomplished and nationally recognized.

Metrics

Episodes: 27

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Ben Sasse - Former United States senator, university president, and academic leader.

Chris Stirewalt - Journalist, political analyst, author, and former political editor.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Published historians, senior military or government leaders, prominent journalists and authors, acclaimed documentary filmmakers, and other established public intellectuals.

Required Achievements:

Published books, Senior public service or military leadership, National media platforms, Award-winning documentaries, Recognized scholarship or historical research

Recent Guest Discussions

Andrew Roberts - Winston Churchill, The Anglo-american Special Relationship, Political Philosophy, And Historical Leadership.

H. R. McMaster - Military History, Leadership, Teamwork, Free Societies, And Influential Books About War And American Leadership.

Megan McArdle - Affluence, Happiness, Generational Choices, Risk-taking, And Personal Growth Through Experience.

Ken Burns - Historical Documentary-making, Storytelling For Broad Audiences, Professional Historians, And The American Experience.

Recent Topics

History, Leadership, Statesmanship, American History, Meaning

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Not Dead Yet

Listener Mail, Ep 2: Electric Boogaloo

August 18, 2026

You write; they talk. Bicycle gangs are good, schools are overrated, chronological snobbery is bad, vocations are always plural, and Chris waxes poetic about his favorite hot dog.

Andrew Roberts

August 11, 2026

The guys get fancy when Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia, joins the pod. (Again with the historians.) The guys talk about Churchill and the Special Relationship between the United States and Great Britain. What was Churchill’s political philosophy? What did the wilderness years teach him? What’s the deal with the “Black Dog” anyway? And who would win in a cage match: Teddy Roosevelt or Winston Churchill?

H.R. McMaster

August 05, 2026

Everyone knows the Warrior Poets get the headlines, but do Warrior Historians deserve the recognition? Do free societies produce better soldiers? How do leaders know when to be disagreeable? H.R. McMaster joins the guys to talk about the history of tanks, the dynamics of leadership and teamwork, and his reading list of American heroes.James Webb — Fields of Fire James R. McDonough — Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat Charles B. McDonald — Company Commander: The Classic Infantry M...

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