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Rickover’s Playbook: Building Hard Things Inside the State
Admiral Rickover — America’s most famous, perhaps most influential admiral of the second half of the 20th century. To discuss his unbelievable life s…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
China's Gaming Landscape
Today, we’re discussing all things gaming in China! Our illustrious guest is Daniel Camilo, a Portuguese national who has spent over a decade in the …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Chinamaxxing
Minh Tran (https://www.couldabeenatthe.club/), Afra Wang (https://afra.work/) and Lauren Teixeira (https://lrntex.substack.com/) join me to talk abou…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Military Revolutions with Ed Luttwak
Today’s guest is the legendary strategist Edward Luttwak — the Machiavelli of Maryland. He’s consulted for presidents, prime ministers, and secretari…
4 months ago
Second Breakfast: Invading Canada, Benedict Arnold, Iran
whole gang is here. Also a little Minnesota and 30 seconds of NDS (which is all it deserves)
suno: https://suno.com/s/SJ0FoEPMVZ3QS441
'He couldn’t c…
4 months ago
EMERGENCY POD: PLA Purges Continue!
Jon Czin, former CIA analyst and NSC staffer, returns to talk purges. We have far too much fun.
The disney take on PLA purges: https://suno.com/s/Wv…
4 months ago
Overfit: Claude Code is Everything, Trump Vibe Codes
Jasmine Sun of https://jasmi.news/ and Nathan Lambert of https://www.interconnects.ai/ report for duty. Athena makes a brief guest appearance before …
4 months, 1 week ago
Second Breakfast: Battleships, Golden Dome, Greenland, Kash, Presidential Comedy
Bryan Clark (former submariner at Hudson), Eric Robinson, and Justin McIntosh report for duty.
Davos disco: https://suno.com/s/2SpR62beigk2JeDr
Learn…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Future of Economic Security with Dan Kim and Chris Miller
Is there such a thing as MAD in economic warfare? How should we measure the effectiveness of our industrial policy tools, and what outcomes should we…
4 months, 1 week ago
Party Time! Jon Czin on US-China in 2025 and 2026
Jon Czin spent years as a top China analyst at the CIA, served as China Director on Biden’s National Security Council, and now works at the Brookings…
4 months, 1 week ago