Podcast Episodes

Bye Bye Maduro, You Gone Now

Season 1 Episode 319

Jacob takes on the U.S. seizure of Nicolás Maduro and what it reveals about American power, imperial strategy, and hemispheric priorities. This was less about China or narco-trafficking and more of t…

Published on 3 days, 4 hours ago

Money and Control

Season 1 Episode 318

What if the money in your pocket wasn’t a tool for freedom, but a mechanism for control? Inflation, surveillance, and financial exclusion actively shape who can save, speak, or participate in the glo…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

Right Wing Ascendant

Season 1 Episode 317

Elohim Monard joins The Jacob Shapiro Podcast to discuss Latin America.

A massive geopolitical integration in LatAm is quietly underway, fueled by a "Trumpian" rightward shift sweeping from the South…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

The Return of Imperial Strategy

Season 1 Episode 316

Power gets loud when it’s insecure. Strategy becomes theater. And ideology sneaks in wearing policy jargon. The White House's newest U.S. National Security Strategy claims realism while quietly deman…

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

The Geography of a Missing Daughter

Season 1 Episode 315

Book episode!

What happens when a policy meant to shape a nation reaches into the most intimate corners of a family’s life? Journalist Barbara Demick'sDaughters of the Bamboo Grove becomes a prism fo…

Published on 1 month ago

The Geopolitics of Personalized Money

Season 1 Episode 314

As global finance strains under shifting power structures, author and fintech thinker Emmanuel Daniel, founder of TAB Global, argues that the real disruption isn’t technological - it’s personal. This…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Demand Shock

Season 1 Episode 313

Tariffs promise protection but unleash deeper shocks - reshaping demand, distorting prices, and testing the resilience of an already-strained economic system. Rob Larity and Jacob unpack the widening…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

"What the West Should Learn from China"

Season 1 Episode 312

China’s rise is often framed as a geopolitical contest, but Kaiser Y Kuo, host of the Sinica Podcast, pushes us to confront something deeper: what if China’s transformation exposes the West’s blind s…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

“The Longevity Dividend, or, Why You Shouldn’t Bathe in the Blood of Virgins”

Season 1 Episode 311

Aging quietly shapes everything - our economies, our politics, our families, and the horizon of what nations can become. Jacob and longevity expert Dylan Livingston, founder of the Alliance for Longe…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

“ChatGPT is so mid”, or, Why AI Won’t Change the World

Season 1 Episode 310

Technological revolutions rarely unfold the way we imagine. From the steam engine to AI, each wave reshapes who creates value - and who gets left behind. What if artificial intelligence isn’t a revol…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago