Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCan Taiwan Trust the United States? (w/ Michael Hunzeker)
Eric welcomes Michael Hunzeker, associate director of the Center for Security Policy Studies at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, to discuss his new book America’s Taiw…
Published on 8 hours ago
Why MAGA Loves Illiberalism (w/ Laura Field)
Eric and Eliot pay their respects to the late Vice President Dick Cheney before welcoming their guest Laura Field to discuss her book Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. They explore the…
Published on 1 week ago
America Can't Go It Alone
Eric and Eliot discuss the GOP’s ongoing Nazi problem and the growing danger of anti-Semitism on the right. They debunk President Trump’s false claims about America’s nuclear arsenal, then pivot to a…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Paranoia and Purges Are Consuming the Pentagon
Eric and Eliot discuss appeasement and the striking similarities between Putin’s recent demands and Hitler’s insistence that the Czechs surrender the heavily fortified Sudetenland. They then turn to …
Published on 3 weeks ago
The Dark Forces Conspiring Against Democracy (w/ Bill Galston)
Eric and Eliot welcome William Galston to Shield of the Republic to discuss his recent book, Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech. They explore why liberal-democra…
Published on 4 weeks ago
How The Jews Fought Rome
Eliot and Eric welcome back friend of the show Barry Strauss, the Corliss Page Dean Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. They discuss the series of Jewish revolts against R…
Published on 1 month ago
Alliances With Dictators Never Last (w/ Tim Bouverie)
Eric welcomes historian Tim Bouverie, author of Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World, to Shield of the Republic. They discuss Tim’s fascinating acco…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
SPECIAL EPISODE: Trump Preaches Insanity to The General Officers
On a special edition of Shield of the Republic, Eric and Eliot break down Secretary of Defense Hegseth and President Donald Trump's speeches to the General Officer Corps at Quantico this week. They d…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
The Hack Is Coming From Inside the House
Eliot and Eric welcome Anne Neuberger, former Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber Affairs and currently the Payne Lecturer at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Center, to discuss her latest article in…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Russia is Openly Attacking NATO
Eric and Eliot discuss the perilous moment for the American Republic in which we find ourselves after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. They discuss the recent developments in the Ukraine war, inclu…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago