Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Back in the USSR” with The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Russell Mead
Episode 48
In these conversations, we’ve talked a lot about tensions on the Russia-Ukraine border. But what we haven’t talked about is whether Putin is actually…
4 years, 2 months ago
How does a war with China start? With Admiral James Stavridis
Episode 47
On this podcast series, and in many other discussions and debates in think tanks and in the media, we often speculate about the likelihood of a kinet…
4 years, 2 months ago
From Baby Boom to Baby Bust - with Nicholas Eberstadt
Episode 46
China is poised to pass one of the great demographic inflection points” – that’s according to the Financial Times. The inflection point the FT is ref…
4 years, 2 months ago
Revisiting The New Inflation - with Mohamed El-Erian
Episode 45
The Covid-19 recession technically ended in April 2020. At two months, it was one of the shortest economic recessions in history. Since then, we have…
4 years, 2 months ago
Revisiting 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, 2 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago