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The history of Hamas, and its likely grim future - with Jonathan Schanzer
11 oktober 2023 · 59 min
We have been getting a lot of questions about the history of Hamas, its ideological roots and objectives, its allies and rivalries, how it wound up in charge of Gaza, the origins of this war, and whether there could actually be a post-Hamas Gaza. For t... Lees meer
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ISRAEL AT WAR: The multi-front probability - with Bret Stephens
9 oktober 2023 · 30 min
Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times, returns for a conversation immediately on Day III of this war. Bret came to The New York Times after a long career with The Wall Street Journal, where he was most recently deputy e... Lees meer
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ISRAEL AT WAR: The Hostage Dilemma - with Haviv Rettig Gur
8 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Haviv Rettig Gur returns to our podcast to provide real-time reporting and analysis on the war, and invaluable historical context. His insights on how Israel might prosecute this war -- and the possible end of Israel's security paradigm with Gaza and i... Lees meer
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Karl Rove on our new (or not so new) political dysfunction
5 oktober 2023 · 38 min
One day we’re talking about the 2024 presidential election being a re-match of the 2020 election. The next day we’re watching the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives being defenestrated through a historic vote OUT of the Speakership. What is g... Lees meer
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Who will tell Biden? The dread of 2024 - with A.B. Stoddard
2 oktober 2023 · 47 min
Many Democratic activists, strategists, donors, officeholders, and party leaders are privately discussing the weaknesses of President Biden's candidacy, heading into what now appears to be a very competitive 2024 election. But is anyone telling Preside... Lees meer
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What's with the GOP & these debates? - with Eliana Johnson
28 september 2023 · 42 min
What to make of the most recent presidential debates? What to make of what we're learning from these debates? What to make of the media's coverage of and role in these debates? And where do things go from here? Eliana Johnson is the editor-in-chief of ... Lees meer
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What's with Republicans & Ukraine? - with Aaron MacLean
26 september 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
Why is U.S. assistance for Ukraine being held up in Congress? What is at stake for the U.S.? Aaron MacLean is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Previously, he was Senior Foreign Policy Advisor and Legislative Director to U.S... Lees meer
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Will Saudi Arabia's MBS save Israel from its political crack-up? With Micah Goodman
21 september 2023 · 49 min
Are you pessimistic about Israel’s future? My new book – which I wrote with my "Start-Up Nation" co-author Saul Singer – should give you reason for optimism. I care deeply about Israel. I’m endlessly fascinated by Israel. I travel to Israel regularly. ... Lees meer
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Unprecedented polarization, or has Israel been here before? With Meir Soloveichik
18 september 2023 · 1 uur 8 min
Items discussed in this episode: “The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent“ World www.amazon.com/Genius-Israel-Small-Nation-Teach/dp/1982115769/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2Y6VUH68GZXYL&keywords=The+genius+of+Israel&qid=16... Lees meer
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Can we be optimistic about Israel? With Yossi Klein Halevi
11 september 2023 · 1 uur 16 min
Today is a special episode in which I preview some of the questions we try to answer in our new book, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World. Saul Singer and I collaborated on Start-Up Nation: The Story... Lees meer
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Mohamed El-Erian on B-R-I-C-S (& J-E-T-S)
7 september 2023 · 45 min
Dr. Mohamed El-Erian returns to the podcast to discuss the implications of the recent announcement of the expansion of BRICS, China's economy and possible spillover effects in the West, past forecasting of recession/stagflation, and the Fed's inflation... Lees meer
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The inner workings of an untold (Iran) deal - with Rich Goldberg
4 september 2023 · 1 uur
Back in July, we dedicated an episode to the question of whether the U.S. was on the cusp of reaching a new deal with Iran. Or was an unofficial deal already hatched that nobody was talking about? According to Rich Goldberg, the answers to these questi... Lees meer
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A peek into a Trumpless election, or just a mirage? With Kristen Soltis Anderson
28 augustus 2023 · 59 min
Kristen Soltis Anderson is a GOP pollster, messaging strategist, and Founding Partner of Echelon Insights, an opinion research and analytics firm that serves brands, trade associations, nonprofits, and political clients. Through her work at Echelon, sh... Lees meer
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Yevgeny Prigozhin falls from the sky
25 augustus 2023 · 38 min
Special episode with Dr. Fred Kagan on the Russia-Ukraine war (and Putin's hold on power). Fred is the Director of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also working closely with the Russia team at the Institute for t... Lees meer
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Why China is studying America’s Forgotten War - with Rep. Mike Gallagher
21 augustus 2023 · 51 min
There is a lot these days to discuss with a US official who is an expert on China and has major influence over US-China policy. But today we take a longer view of the Cold War (II) we are in with China by looking at a historical comparison in Cold War ... Lees meer
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The Summer of Geopolitical Heat - with Walter Russell Mead
14 augustus 2023 · 55 min
Throughout modern history, there were major wars that were triggered by fits of inattention or inadvertence. In retrospect, these moments can seem obvious – sometimes even linear. Walter Russuell Mead is observing some of these fits of inattention righ... Lees meer
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Mike Murphy on Plan B for 2024
7 augustus 2023 · 56 min
Each national political party should be thinking about their Plan B for the 2024 presidential election. Mike Murphy returns to the podcast to discuss each party's predicament and where they can go from here. Murphy has worked on a number of presidentia... Lees meer
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Is Israeli society collapsing, or just growing up?
31 juli 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
One week ago, Israel’s parliament passed the first pillar of its judicial reform package. This, despite 30 weeks of massive protests against the reforms. Calling these mass protests understates it. Hundreds of thousands of people turning out each week,... Lees meer
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A techno-skeptic on the A.I. revolution - with Christine Rosen
17 juli 2023 · 56 min
Dr. Christine Rosen is skeptical of all the techno-optimism around the coming era of artificial intelligence. In this episode, she responds to our recent guest, Tyler Cowen (episode # 120). Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise ... Lees meer
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The (Iran) deal that shall not be named - with Rich Goldberg
10 juli 2023 · 44 min
Is the US on the cusp of reaching a new deal with Iran? Or has a deal already been hatched that nobody is talking about? To help us understand what is going on, Rich Goldberg returns to the podcast. Rich is a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defens... Lees meer
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Cracks in the Kremlin? With Fred Kagan
5 juli 2023 · 52 min
Does Putin’s hold on power now look stronger or weaker? What can we learn about where the Russia-Ukraine war is heading? And what is actually happening with the Ukraine counter-offensive? Fred Kagan is the Director of the Critical Threats Project at th... Lees meer
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Contrarian take on the Wagner Putsch - with Richard Fontaine
26 juni 2023 · 50 min
Last weekend, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, launched a rebellion, coup or putsch against Moscow. It's still hard to discern what it was. As of now, It seems Prigozhin has halted the Wagner operation. The situation is flui... Lees meer
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SELECTS: The American College Crack-Up - with Niall Ferguson
19 juni 2023 · 29 min
In this special re-published episode, we revisit a captivating conversation that resonated deeply with our audience, offering new listeners an opportunity to delve into the insights shared by Niall Ferguson. In this decade we may finally experience a t... Lees meer
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"Losers Don't Come to Their College Reunions" -- with Bruce Feiler
12 juni 2023 · 58 min
These days there are lots of conversations about the re-shaping of the workforce as a result of the pandemic. Bruce Feiler is just out with a new book – THE SEARCH: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World – based on years of research on this top... Lees meer
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Bret Stephens teaches college grads to argue!
5 juni 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times, returns for a conversation immediately following his address at the University of Chicago’s Class Day, where there was an organized — and ultimately unsuccessful — effort against h... Lees meer
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Optimism, AI (and the end of homework!) - with Tyler Cowen
30 mei 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
Today’s guest is surprisingly upbeat about the world. A big factor in his optimism is the revolution in artificial intelligence that we’re about to live through. Tyler Cowen is an economics professor at George Mason University and he’s the faculty dire... Lees meer
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Highest Risk: 2025-2026 - with HR McMaster
22 mei 2023 · 46 min
Upon graduation from the US Military Academy in 1984, HR McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the US Army for thirty-four years. He retired as a lieutenant general in June 2018. From 2014 to 2017, General McMaster designed the future army as th... Lees meer
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The Invisible Primary - with Mike Murphy
8 mei 2023 · 1 uur 13 min
In this episode, we go deep on the current phase (the invisible primary) of the 2024 presidential primaries with Mike Murphy, who has worked on a number of presidential campaigns, as well as run 26 gubernatorial and US Senate races across the country. ... Lees meer
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How do we know if a country is a success? Israel at 75, with Daniel Gordis
1 mei 2023 · 56 min
Items discussed in this episode "Impossible Takes Longer": https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/impossible-takes-longer-daniel-gordis/1141759170 "Netanyahu: The Figures Who Formed Him, and the Duties of Jewish Leadership": https://mosaicmagazine.com/observ... Lees meer
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The *real* tensions inside Israel — with Micah Goodman
24 april 2023 · 47 min
Over the past 16 weeks, Israel has experienced one of the biggest protest movements since its founding. On the surface, these protests were about proposed judicial reforms. But was something deeper going on -- for both sides of this debate? On a recent... Lees meer
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IRAN - pariah no more? with Mark Dubowitz
17 april 2023 · 52 min
Today we sit down in Israel with Mark Dubowitz, who is the CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), at a time that Saudi Arabia is reopening its embassy in Tehran, and Iran's relations appear to be flourishing with Beijing, Moscow an... Lees meer
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Broken schools, newsrooms, governments & other institutions — Fixable or forever broken? with Alana Newhouse
10 april 2023 · 57 min
"Brokenism", by Alana Newhouse - https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/brokenism-alana-newhouse “The Vanishing”, by Jacob Savage - https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-vanishing
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"Silver Linings" in Israel's crisis? with Yaakov Katz
3 april 2023 · 47 min
Yaakov Katz – Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post and a former advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett – returns to our podcast. Earlier, Yaakov Katz served as The Jerusalem Post’s military reporter and defense analyst. He is the author of ... Lees meer
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Special Episode: Update on Israel's political crisis
28 maart 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
In this special episode we play a conversation that Dan recently had on the Commentary Magazine podcast on the current crisis, how Israel got here and where it goes from here. Be sure to subscribe to Commentary Magazine and its podcast: https://www.com... Lees meer
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US-China De-escalation? (& the latest on covid's origin) -- with Josh Rogin
27 maart 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
Is the US Government trying to re-engage and bring down the temperature with China? Why right now? And what about the resurgent findings on the possible lab leaked accident (on the origin of the pandemic)? Where does this fit into the de-escalation dyn... Lees meer
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"Did we break Iraq?" with Eli Lake
20 maart 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
Twenty years ago this past week, on March 19, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq, marking the second time the U.S. fought a war in Iraq in just over a decade. What is the legacy for U.S. foreign policy, for the Middle East, and for domestic public op... Lees meer
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China Surprise: Saudi-Iranian Detente
13 maart 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
China just announced that it had brokered a deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran to restore diplomatic relations, for the first time since they were officially severed in 2016. But this news begs more questions than it answers. To help us understand what... Lees meer
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Western ideas at their best & why they're under attack - with Eric Cohen
6 maart 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
Eric Cohen is the CEO of Tikvah. He was the founder and remains editor-at-large of the New Atlantis, and he serves as the publisher of Mosaic. Eric has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Commentary, He is the author of In the... Lees meer
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What does Biden mean by “as long as it takes”? - with Richard Fontaine
27 februari 2023 · 1 uur
On the topic of geopolitics, international flashpoints and the state of the war, a surprisingly optimistic Richard Fontaine returns to our podcast. Richard is the CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a bi-partisan foriegn policy think ... Lees meer
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Niall Ferguson: How Cold War II Turns Hot
20 februari 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
Historian Niall Ferguson returns to the podcast to look at how the current Cold War could turn hot. Niall has taught at Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and New York University. He’s authored 17 books. He’s currently at the Hoover Institution at Stanford Uni... Lees meer
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Bonus Episode: Check-in on the Abraham Accords - with Aryeh Lightstone
16 februari 2023 · 34 min
The Abraham Accords were signed in September 2020. This agreement between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, marked the first full normalization agreement between Israel and an Arab country since the 1994 Jordan-Israel agreement. Soon after ... Lees meer
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Mike Murphy on the 2024 presidential primaries
13 februari 2023 · 54 min
In this episode, we go deep on 2024 presidential primaries with Mike Murphy, who has worked on 26 gubernatorial and US Senate races across the country. Murphy was a top strategist for John McCain, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He’s ... Lees meer
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Bonus Episode: Super Bowl & Beyond - with Mike Tanenbaum
11 februari 2023 · 30 min
Mike Tannenbaum has more than 2 decades of experience in NFL team front offices. He was an executive vice president of football operations for the Miami Dolphins (2015-18), and executive vice president and general manager for the New York Jets (2006-12... Lees meer
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Maggie Haberman on 2024
6 februari 2023 · 40 min
Are we actually headed for a replay of Trump vs Biden in 2024? How strong is Trump heading into the GOP primaries? Is Biden certain to be the Democratic nominee? Do Biden and Trump need each other? And what role will Trump play in 2024 if he’s NOT the ... Lees meer
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US Foreign Policy in 2023 - with Congressman Mike Gallagher
30 januari 2023 · 1 uur
Congressman Mike Gallagher returns to our podcast, this time to look ahead at American foreign policy in 2023. Congressman Gallagher -- of Wisconsin's 8th CD -- has a unique perspective, since he’s just been tapped to lead the newly created House Selec... Lees meer
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Our new media diets - with John Podhoretz
23 januari 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
In this episode, we break down changes in our media diets that have been changed as a result of the pandemic and the tech market boom, and what will revert back to VERY pre-pandemic habits. John Podhoretz returns to our conversation. He’s been a prolif... Lees meer
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The Economy in 2023 -- with Mohamed El-Erian
16 januari 2023 · 55 min
Is there any precedent for combating inflation that doesn’t end in recession or depression? This is one of many questions we have for Dr. Mohamed El-Erian as we look ahead to 2023. What should we expect this year in the markets and the economy? Mohamed... Lees meer
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Speaker McCarthy - with Matthew Continetti
9 januari 2023 · 55 min
“ Democrats fall in love. Republicans fall in line." So said former President Bill Clinton. But it didn't seem that way last week, as House Republicans struggled to select a new Speaker. A band of rebels wasn’t getting in line for anyone - not for the ... Lees meer
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Understanding Netanyahu’s new government - with Yaakov Katz
3 januari 2023 · 45 min
WIth Prime Minister Netanyahu's new government now sworn in, and also developments for Israel at the UN, Yaakov Katz – Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post – returns to our podcast. Earlier, Yaakov was an advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Nafta... Lees meer
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Special Episode: Bret Stephens on Cancel Culture
2 januari 2023 · 24 min
One of our regular guests – Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times – returns for a conversation on cancel culture, anti-semitism and a new issue of a journal he edits, called Sapir. Bret joined The New York Times after a... Lees meer