Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDouble Taps and Drug Lord Pardons
Eric and Eliot discuss the newly released National Security Strategy's flaws, highlighting its incoherence and hostility to Europe. They note the str…
7 months, 1 week ago
When Power Stops Caring About the Law
Eric and Eliot return from Thanksgiving to dissect the revelations from the Washington Post about the double-tap strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Pentagon's Confederate Cover-Up
Eric and Eliot reflect on the memorial service for Vice President Dick Cheney and welcome Brigadier General (ret.) Ty Seidule, author of Robert E. Le…
8 months ago
Can Taiwan Trust the United States? (w/ Michael Hunzeker)
Eric welcomes Michael Hunzeker, associate director of the Center for Security Policy Studies at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and …
8 months, 1 week ago
Why MAGA Loves Illiberalism (w/ Laura Field)
Eric and Eliot pay their respects to the late Vice President Dick Cheney before welcoming their guest Laura Field to discuss her book Furious Minds: …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
America Can't Go It Alone
Eric and Eliot discuss the GOP’s ongoing Nazi problem and the growing danger of anti-Semitism on the right. They debunk President Trump’s false claim…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Paranoia and Purges Are Consuming the Pentagon
Eric and Eliot discuss appeasement and the striking similarities between Putin’s recent demands and Hitler’s insistence that the Czechs surrender the…
9 months ago
The Dark Forces Conspiring Against Democracy (w/ Bill Galston)
Eric and Eliot welcome William Galston to Shield of the Republic to discuss his recent book, Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of …
9 months, 1 week ago
How The Jews Fought Rome
Eliot and Eric welcome back friend of the show Barry Strauss, the Corliss Page Dean Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. T…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Alliances With Dictators Never Last (w/ Tim Bouverie)
Eric welcomes historian Tim Bouverie, author of Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World, to Shield of…
9 months, 3 weeks ago