Optimism, AI (and the end of homework!) - with Tyler Cowen
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 profess...
30 Touko 20231h 2min
Highest Risk: 2025-2026 - with HR McMaster
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 t...
22 Touko 202345min
The Invisible Primary - with Mike Murphy
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 gu...
8 Touko 20231h 12min
How do we know if a country is a success? Israel at 75, with Daniel Gordis
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 Jew...
1 Touko 202356min
The *real* tensions inside Israel — with Micah Goodman
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 go...
24 Huhti 202347min
IRAN - pariah no more? with Mark Dubowitz
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 relati...
17 Huhti 202351min
Broken schools, newsrooms, governments & other institutions — Fixable or forever broken? with Alana Newhouse
"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-vanish...
10 Huhti 202356min
"Silver Linings" in Israel's crisis? with Yaakov Katz
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 milita...
3 Huhti 202346min
