Podcast Episodes

The Question of Genocide

Partisans and activists on either side of the Israel-Hamas war are lobbing allegations of genocide against the other. Some respected legal scholars a…

2 years, 6 months ago

Russia in the Middle East

What was Vladimir Putin doing hosting Hamas' representatives two weeks after the terrorist group massacred Israeli civilians? What are Russia's inter…

2 years, 6 months ago

How Wars Are Lost

The wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East shattered illusions. Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, now in its twenty-first month, dispelled…

2 years, 6 months ago

Why Peace Failed (Oslo Accords at 30)

In a scene that seems as unimaginable today as it did then, U.S., Israeli, and Palestinian officials gathered on the White House lawn in September 19…

2 years, 6 months ago

From 9/11 to 10/7: Know Your Enemy

The Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,400 Israelis drew comparisons to the al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington on Sept…

2 years, 6 months ago

Ike's Assassins

In late 1960 the Congo crisis was front-page news. Photographers and newsreels captured the humiliating arrest and imprisonment of the newly independ…

2 years, 7 months ago

The Oil Weapon

Fifty Octobers ago, Arab oil producers agreed to an embargo against the United States and a handful of other countries, upending American politics an…

2 years, 7 months ago

Bidenomics

Presidents like to take credit when the economy is booming or deflect blame when things turn sour. Despite plenty of positive economic news, polls sh…

2 years, 7 months ago

Today's war between Israel and Hamas has its origins in the unresolved problems caused by the events of 1948. The year that witnessed the creation of…

2 years, 7 months ago

Putin's Forever War

Russian president Vladimir Putin's public remarks of late have taken on a darker tone. As he blasts the West for, in his view, trying to dominate Rus…

2 years, 7 months ago