Podcast Episodes

High Stakes in Ukraine (with Bill Kristol and Daniel Fried)

Eric and special guest host Bill Kristol discuss the war in Ukraine with former Ambassador to Poland and former Assistant Secretary of State for Euro…

3 years, 8 months ago

Wearing Russian Sanctions like a Badge of Honor (with David Kramer)

Eric and Eliot return with special guest David Kramer, the Managing Director of Global Policy at the George W. Bush Institute and former Assistant Se…

3 years, 8 months ago

Hiatus

Eric and Eliot will be taking a short hiatus to travel.

In the meantime, please send us your feedback and suggestions at shieldoftherepublic@gmail.com…

3 years, 9 months ago

Putin's War and European Politics (with Nick Cohen)

Eric and Eliot welcome Guardian columnist and Spectator blogger Nick Cohen (no relation to Eliot) and author of the several books including What's Le…

3 years, 10 months ago

The War's Decisive Moment

Eric and Eliot dissect the war in Ukraine and discuss Eliot's articles in the Atlantic and Foreign Affairs. What is the new phase of the war? Are Rus…

3 years, 10 months ago

Security in the Indo-Pacific (with Charlie Edel)

Eliot and Eric welcome Charlie Edel, Australia Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to discuss security in the Indo-Pacific, …

3 years, 10 months ago

War, Myth-making, and Democracy (with Elizabeth Samet)

Eliot and Eric host Professor Elizabeth Samet of the US Military Academy to discuss her new book Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the V…

3 years, 11 months ago

The Ancients Illuminate Modern Statecraft (with Barry Strauss)

Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Eliot and Eric talk wi…

3 years, 11 months ago

Why can’t we admit that Ukraine is winning?

Eric and Eliot consider the first month of Russia-Ukraine War and Eliot's Atlantic article on why it has been so hard for some observers to admit tha…

3 years, 11 months ago

Zelensky, Churchill, Reagan (with Andrew Roberts)

Eric and Eliot host British author and historian Andrew Roberts and discuss his revisionist account of King George III and how a good man was nonethe…

4 years ago