Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRobert Satloff on Revitalizing Middle East Studies: A new graduate program promises to restore scholarly integrity to a debased field
October 7th exposed to everyone what many in and around the academy have known for years: American universities—not all, but many—are failing catastrophically to educate the next generation about the…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Yuval Levin on American Renewal
This week, America celebrates 249 years of independence. As the countdown begins to our 250th birthday, our semiquincentennial, it is natural to ask what citizenship means to us as Americans, and as…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
What the War Reveals about Providence and Jewish History with Meir Soloveichik
On June 22, American B-2 bombers dropped hundreds of tons of explosives on three nuclear sites in Iran—Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Right after President Trump announced that the pilots were out of I…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Jay Lefkowitz on New York City’s Democratic Primary
On June 24, members of New York City’s Democratic party will select their nominee for the mayoral election that is scheduled to take place in November of this year. As of last year, 56 percent of reg…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Sadanand Dhume on Israeli Arms and the India-Pakistan Conflict: How two democracies found common cause
On April 22, 2025, Islamist terrorists struck Indian civilians in Kashmir. Twenty-six people were killed, most of them Hindu tourists. This attack would trigger what analysts now call the “88-Hour Wa…
Published on 3 months ago
Jeffrey Herf on the Transformation of Radical Speech into Violence
On April 13, 2025, an arsonist set fire to the residence of the governor of Pennsylvania. When apprehended, he told law-enforcement officers that he did so using Molotov cocktails. The attack took pl…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Judge Matthew Solomson on Orthodox Judaism and American Public Service: A conversation with one of the highest-ranking observant Jews in the federal judiciary
It’s not uncommon, to put the matter lightly, to find Jewish Americans well represented in the legal field. But the conventional storybook narrative of how Jews rise to occupy positions of promise an…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Yossi Melman on Israel’s Most Famous Spy: What we learn from the Eli Cohen files
In 2019, Netflix released a six-episode miniseries starring the English comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen played an Israeli spy, Eli Cohen. The latter Cohen was a Jewish immigrant from Egyp…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
J.J. Kimche on Paul Johnson’s Legacy of Philo-Semitism
Born in 1928 in Manchester, Paul Johnson was a British Catholic who while at the helm of the New Statesman liked to boast that he had met every British prime minister from Churchill to Blair and ever…
Published on 4 months ago
Ari Heistein on the American War on the Houthis, and the Israeli One
On May 4, 2025, a ballistic missile traveling up to sixteen times faster than the speed of sound struck ground close to the terminal at Ben-Gurion airport, halting flight traffic and leaving a crater…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago