Episode 23: Iran bows out
There's now a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Who won the war? And what happens now?We offer some preliminary conclusions as the dust settles.This episode is sponsored by the Peters family, Tom, Sh...
24 Jun 202546min
Episode 22: A new dawn in the Middle East?
The United States has struck the Iranian nuclear program, marking a watershed moment for the region.It will take days to determine the scale of the damage and many years to understand the implications...
22 Jun 202547min
Episode 21: Why won’t Haredim serve in the IDF? A deep dive with Shmuel Rosner
Haredi Israelis make up some 13% of the population but have extremely low rates of workforce participation and military service. The growing welfare subsidies that sustain their communities have incre...
20 Jun 202559min
Episode 20: Regime change in Iran? What the 1979 revolution can teach us.
Twenty-four people have been killed in Israel since the outbreak of the direct Israel-Iran war. The Air Force is busy hunting launchers inside Iran to constrain Iran's ability to fire missiles at Isra...
16 Jun 202535min
Episode 19: Iran faces a humbler, more dangerous Israel
The astonishing Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear program was the inevitable result of October 7, a day that convinced Israelis they do not actually understand their Islamist foes, cannot deter these f...
13 Jun 202536min
Episode 18: Taking on the ayatollahs with Mark Dubowitz
The Trump administration has been trying to hammer out a deal to dismantle Iran's nuclear program. In the last 24 hours, the rhetoric has ratcheted up on both sides, as both Iranian and US officials h...
12 Jun 202554min
Episode 17: The Gaza war began 25 years ago, a conversation with Matti Friedman
Last month marked the 25th anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon after an 18-year guerrilla war that presaged everything we now think of as 21st-century warfare.I spoke to Matti Friedman,...
9 Jun 202552min
Episode 16: Hamas and the broken promise of 150 years of Islamic reform
Hamas's rule in Gaza is a theocratic dictatorship. But its roots lie in the 19th-century movement for Islamic reform that believes modernization, science and even political liberalization. How did the...
30 Mai 202556min
