Populisms Ancient and Modern with Mike Duncan
Political polarization, inequality, and corruption during the period 146 to 78 BC gravely weakened the Roman Republic in the years before its collapse. In his new book “The Storm Before the Storm: The...
3 Marras 201741min
Anne Applebaum on the Red Famine
Stalin’s 1929 agricultural collectivization policy, which catalyzed the most lethal famine in European history, left millions of Ukrainian peasants dead. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist A...
1 Marras 201726min
Special Edition: Indictment Day
What a day. Paul Manafort Jr. and Richard Gates III have been indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who today also rolled out a plea deal with Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos. Lawfare...
31 Loka 201733min
Revenge of the Blob: A Texas National Security Review Panel
This week marked the launch of the Texas National Security Review, a new publication from the University of Texas and War on the Rocks. At the recent launch event of the journal, War on the Rocks edit...
27 Loka 201754min
Brookings Panel on 'Icarus' and Russian Meddling
Last week, Lawfare hosted a screening and panel discussion of the new film Icarus at the Brookings Institution. Benjamin Wittes moderated the conversation with director Bryan Fogel, producer Dan Cogan...
24 Loka 201747min
Timothy Edgar on Mass Surveillance After Snowden
In his recent book Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA, civil liberties activist and former intelligence official Timothy Edgar calls for a renewed conversat...
21 Loka 201744min
Bonus Edition: Stephen Vladeck on Detaining an American Enemy Combatant
When an American ISIS fighter turned himself in to Syrian Democratic Forces last month, the subsequent detention of the unnamed enemy combatant by U.S. forces sparked concern. To explore the implicati...
17 Loka 201753min
Shadi Hamid and William McCants on Rethinking Political Islam
Political Islam has been radically shifting in the past four years since the Egyptian coup and the emergence of ISIS, consequently challenging how we understand Islamist movements and their impact. To...
13 Loka 201736min
