Samuel Moyn on "How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End”
On October 19th, Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Harvard University, closed out a one-day conference on “The Next President's Fight Against Terror” at New America with a talk on “How Warf...
22 Okt 201649min
Jack Goldsmith and Susan Hennessey on Russian Interference in the U.S. Election
When audio dropped last Friday of Donald Trump boasting of attacks on women, the news quickly eclipsed another, just-as-important election story released right alongside it: reports that the United St...
14 Okt 201640min
Stephanie Leutert on Violence in Mexico and Central America
Stephanie Leutert, the Mexico Security Initiative Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Lawfare's Beyond the Border series, joined Benjamin Wittes on this week's podcast to tal...
7 Okt 201638min
Rosa Brooks on "How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything"
At this week's Hoover Book Soiree, Rosa Brooks joined Benjamin Wittes to talk about her new book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon. The book covers...
30 Sep 201653min
Judge Laurence Silberman on the Birth of NSD
Last week, the National Security Division of the Justice Department celebrated its 10th anniversary by holding a major conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Judge Laurence ...
23 Sep 201627min
An Interview with Independent Presidential Candidate Evan McMullin
It's been an unusual election season so far—to put it mildly. Among the many other unexpected or unprecedented occurrences that have taken place over the course of the 2016 campaign season, we've seen...
17 Sep 201637min
Disrupting ISIS Recruitment Online
On September 7, the Brookings Institution convened a discussion on a pilot program to disrupt online ISIS recruitment spearheaded by Jigsaw, a technology think tank run by Alphabet. Yasmin Green, Jigs...
9 Sep 201650min
Geeking Out on Al-Nashiri with Michel Paradis and Bob Loeb
Michel Paradis, a senior attorney in the Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Defense Counsel and counsel for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, came on the podcast with Bob Loeb, a partner at Orrick, He...
2 Sep 201652min
