Steve Allen Audio & Video

Things start badly for Steve Allen when Sir Bertrand Russell - the 20th-century philosopher - objects...

The death penalty was under heavy attack in the courts and in public forums, and polls indicated that it was the issue that most sharply divided liberals from conservatives.

Put Cleopatra, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Paine, and Father Thomas Aquinas in a room together and...

Ulysses S. Grant represented everything that Marie Antoinette disdained: he was for the people...

Comedian, television host and musician Steve Allen performs his original songs and compositions for Fresh Air.

Machiavelli said it best: "It is far safer to be feared than loved." Or was that Elizabeth Barrett...

Torture. As disturbing as the subject is, it's even more disturbing to hear someone advocate it...

England, Ireland, and Russia go at it in the persons of Oliver Cromwell, Daniel O'Connell, and Catherine...

When Sir Francis Bacon, Susan B. Anthony, Emiliano Zapata, and Socrates discuss civil disobedience...

The award-winning PBS TV network series “Meeting of Minds” has received a more enthusiastic and complimentary reaction than any program ever carried on American educational television.