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Fiona Hill On Russia, Trump, The American Dream
Fiona Hill was an intel analyst under Bush and Obama and then served under Trump as senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National …
4 years ago
Samuel Ramani On Deciphering Russia
Ramani is a tutor in the Department of Political Science at Oxford and a member of the Royal United Services Institute in London. He’s been to Russia…
4 years ago
Maia Szalavitz On Drugs And Harm Reduction
Maia is the author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, and her latest book, Undoing Drugs, which we cover in this …
4 years ago
Jim Holt On Philosophy, Humor, Hitchens
Jim is the author of Why Does the World Exist?, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes, and his latest, When Einstein Walked…
4 years, 1 month ago
Edward Luttwak On Putin, China, Brexit
I first came across Ed Luttwak when I edited him at The New Republic in its glory days. He is a military strategist, historian, and consultant in the…
4 years, 1 month ago
Anne Applebaum On The Ukraine Crisis
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4 years, 1 month ago
Kathleen Stock On The Nature Of Sex And Gender
Kathleen was a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex for nearly 20 years. Last fall, she resigned under duress following a vicious camp…
4 years, 1 month ago
Johann Hari On Our Attention Crisis
Johann is a close friend, so let’s get that out of the way. His latest subject is the modern curse of screen-driven distraction, and how to combat it…
4 years, 2 months ago
John Mearsheimer On Handling Russia And China
The question of how to deal with a resurgent Russia and a new super-power in China is now an urgent one to think through. At the Dishcast, we’re goin…
4 years, 2 months ago
Roosevelt Montás On Saving The Humanities
Montás, who led the humanities-rich Core Curriculum at Columbia for a decade and still teaches there, has a new book out, Rescuing Socrates. We talk …
4 years, 2 months ago