In this pre-election podcast, TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews political pundits Jonah Goldberg, Editor-At-Large of National Review and Steve Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan, 1964-1980 about the upcoming mid-term elections and what their results could mean to America.

[MP3 format: 27 minutes, 13 seconds]

TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews Michael Anton of Fox News, AKA "Nicholas Antongiavanni," about his new book, The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style.

[MP3 format: 17 minutes, 45 seconds]

TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews Mark Steyn, author of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. In his book, Steyn argues that the world will be divided between America and the rest; and for our sake America had better win.

[MP3 format: 33 minutes, 04 seconds]

TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews Bruce Frohnen, co-editor of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, which serves as the first comprehensive reference volume to cover what is surely the most influential political and intellectual movement of the last half century.

[MP3 format: 18 minutes, 07 seconds]

TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews Jim Geraghty, author of Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership, which explores how recent elections have given the Republican Party its greatest political success since the 1920's.

[MP3 format: 27 minutes, 07 seconds]

This week's guest is New York Post columnist Ryan Sager, who discusses his new book, The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party, which explores the splits and potential fusions between fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, libertarians, and "big government conservatives."

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[33 minutes, 01 seconds]

This week's guest is former Marxist Dierdre McCloskey, a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago who argues that capitalism - rather than being evil or even neutral - tends to improve people and to even encourage art!

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[30 minutes, 0 seconds]

TCS Daily Editor Nick Schulz explores the often unmentioned side-effects of big government with Joel Miller, Senior Editor of Nelson Current and author of Size Matters: How Big Government Puts the Squeeze on America's Families, Finances, and Freedom.

[MP3 format - 25 minutes, 45 seconds]

In part 2 of 2, Frederick Turner, author of Natural Religion, describes the spiritual journey that led him to believe that all religions could be true.

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[21 minutes, 52 seconds]

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In Part 2 of 2 of "Bloggers As the Fifth Estate," TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews Glenn Harlan Reynolds of Instapundit.com, Charles Johnson of LittleGreenFootballs.com and Dean Barnett of SoxBlog.com and gathers their impressions of mainstream media in today's world.

[MP3 format: 20 minutes, 26 seconds]

In Part 1 of 2, TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews Stephen D. Cooper, an Associate Professor of Communications at Marshall University about his new book, "Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers As the Fifth Estate" which addresses both sides of the isle of the blogosphere since 9/11.

[MP3 format: 17 minutes, 22 seconds]