Podcast Episodes

The Ongoing War Against the West

Episode 284

On the 24th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Cliff May sits down with Amb. Edmund Fitton-Brown — former British ambassador to Yemen and UN terrorism monitor, now FDD senior fellow — to …

Published on 17 hours ago

The War Against the West Has a Long Way to Go

Episode 284

On the 24th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Cliff May sits down with Amb. Edmund Fitton-Brown, former British ambassador to Yemen and UN terrorism monitor, now a senior fellow at FDD, …

Published on 17 hours ago

How the U.N. Became Hamas’s Partner

Episode 283

For fifty years, the United Nations has waged a war on Israel—not with rockets or tanks, but with words: resolutions branding Zionism as racism, false charges of apartheid, fabricated famine, and now…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

The Shadows Moscow Casts Over Historian Mark Galeotti

Episode 282

The world’s most endangered democracies—Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, and Ukraine—face relentless threats from the Axis of Aggressors: Beijing, Pyongyang, Tehran, and Moscow. With Ukraine locked in an…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Exodus or Endurance: The Plight of Egypt’s Christians

Episode 281

Not every U.S. strategic partner is a democracy, but those receiving American aid should not trample such basic freedoms as religious liberty. Years ago in Egypt, Coptic Patriarch Pope Tawadros II to…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Nvidia⁩ Games: China v. the US in AI Arms Race

Episode 280

America’s edge in artificial intelligence may rest on one decision now facing Washington: whether to keep our most advanced chips out of Beijing’s hands. President Trump has moved to lift the export …

Published on 4 weeks ago

On the Road Again – in Japan and Taiwan

Episode 279

Adm. Mark Montgomery has been on the road again – along with Craig Singleton and Matt Pottinger. All three FDD scholars just returned from a visit to Japan and Taiwan, two American allies increasingl…

Published on 1 month ago

Why Putin Must Not Win

Episode 278

In 2005, Vladimir Putin said the fall of the Soviet Union was the “greatest political catastrophe of the 20th century.” As Sen. Mitch McConnell pointed out, that should have told us everything we nee…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Syria Agonistes

Episode 277

Once again, there is conflict and carnage in Syria. The media calls it “sectarian strife,” but that phrase may obscure more than it reveals. Islamists have been slaughtering those they deem infidels—…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Schools for Scandal

Episode 276

Woke ideology, anti‑Americanism, Islamism and antisemitism have gripped America’s elite campuses. How? Follow the money.

Researchers at the Middle East Forum have been doing exactly that, and the resu…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago