Eric Metaxas and Batya Ungar Sargon

About this episode

Scot Bertram interviews Eric Metaxas and Batya Ungar Sargon about American history and political identity.

Guests: Eric Metaxas and Batya Ungar Sargon Host Scot Bertram talks with Eric Metaxas, New York Times  bestselling author and the host of Socrates in the City and The Eric Metaxas Show, about the events leading up to our nation ’ s founding and his new book, Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the   World .  And Batya Ungar-Sargon, columnist for The Free Press and the host of Batya! on NewsNation, joins the show to tell us why Jews become devoted Democrats and why Democrats turned on them. Her latest book is The Jews and the Left .  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Scot Bertram

Guests: Eric Metaxas, Batya Ungar Sargon

Topics covered

• American founding
• political identity
• Jewish Democrats
• historical events
• book discussion

Keywords

• Eric Metaxas
• Batya Ungar Sargon
• American history
• politics
• Jews and Democrats
• book discussion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times, The Free Press, NewsNation

Books & works: Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World, The Jews and the Left

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