Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElon Musk and Our Free Speech Wars
Elon Musk's anticipated acquisition of Twitter sent a major ripple across America's endless debates over free expression. The fact is, the question o…
3 years, 11 months ago
China's "Zero COVID" Fantasy
Chinese president Xi Jinping, the country's most powerful leader since Mao, is inflexibly pursuing a policy to eliminate the transmission of COVID-19…
3 years, 11 months ago
To End a War
History teaches us that the war in Ukraine will most likely end in a negotiated settlement. The Second World War was an anomaly insofar the Allies de…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Looming Conflict
The Biden administration's efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran are on the brink of collapse, leading experts to fear the two countrie…
3 years, 11 months ago
Vladimir the Historian
Vladimir Putin's version of history is the foundation of his war in Ukraine. According to Russia's dictator, an independent Ukrainian state is a mist…
3 years, 11 months ago
Nuclear Terror Redux, or How I Learned to Stop...
During the Cold War, the fear of nuclear war suffused the culture in hundreds of books and movies, in classroom "duck and cover" drills and in debate…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Problem of War Crimes
The odds are against anyone being brought to justice for atrocities committed in Ukraine. Despite mounting evidence that Russian forces executed civi…
3 years, 11 months ago
Why Yeltsin Chose Putin
History is full of what-ifs. What if in 1999 Russia's fading president Boris Yeltsin had handpicked someone other than Vladimir Putin to be his succe…
3 years, 11 months ago
Francis Fukuyama Says Liberalism is in Peril
Is Ukraine the front line in a global struggle pitting democracy versus autocracy, liberalism versus illiberal nationalism? Political scientist Franc…
4 years ago
Slavery and the Constitution: Sean Wilentz & James Oakes
This is the third installment in an occasional series that will focus on slavery, the Constitution, and the ongoing debate over the meaning of the Am…
4 years ago