Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRevisiting China’s Great Wall of Steel - with Matt Pottinger
Episode 44
This week we are re-posting some of our episodes from 2021 that are most relevant right now. We’ll start with Matt Pottinger on recent developments i…
4 years ago
How Omicron Stunned The Scientific Community - With Scott Gottlieb
Episode 43
What about Omicron has most surprised the scientific community? What does it tell us about vaccines and where we’re heading? These are among the big …
4 years, 1 month ago
Russia: In decline or on the march? with Richard Fontaine
Episode 42
Russia poses a threat to Ukraine, again. But what about Russian President Putin’s threat to the unity of Europe, and what do recent developments tell…
4 years, 1 month ago
The American College Crack-Up - with Niall Ferguson
Episode 41
In this decade we may finally experience a true crack-up in higher education. There have been comparable periods on American college campuses in the …
4 years, 1 month ago
Lessons for the 2020s - With Historian Niall Ferguson
Episode 40
The first of our two-part conversation with Naill Ferguson is on applied history’s lessons of the 1920s and the 1970s...for the 2020s. Niall is a hi…
4 years, 1 month ago
Dan Senor’s New Podcast - Call Me Back
Episode 39
Welcome to our new podcast, “Call Me Back”, where we try to zoom out from minute-to-minute news and look back to how we got here, what we can learn f…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Political Fallout from Covid19 - with Matthew Continetti
Episode 38
The recent electoral outcomes in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City, Buffalo, Minneapolis and other areas across the country were as much to do with…
4 years, 2 months ago
Vaccines: A New American Success Story? — with The Wall Street Journal’s Gregory Zuckerman
Episode 37
Have we revolutionized vaccine development? What does this mean for our lives and our health well beyond the vaccine for Covid-19? Could this kind of…
4 years, 2 months ago
IS THIS THE END OF C-19’s BEGINNING? - with Yale University’s Nicholas Christakis
Episode 36
In the middle of the pandemic, Dr. Nicholas Christakis released a sweeping book, called “Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavi…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Merits of Merit - with Adrian Wooldridge of The Economist
Episode 35
During the pandemic, standardized tests were suspended in an entire range of educational institutions. Will these changes be temporary or permanent? …
4 years, 3 months ago