Best of HAIH: Oppenheimer — Dropping the Bomb
This episode was first published on August 17, 2023. Original show notes: When Robert Oppenheimer accepted the job to lead the top-secret Manhattan Project, he and his fellow physicists expected any b...
14 Okt 202439min
Israel's War: The "New" Middle East
This is the second of two episodes dealing with the consequences of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and ensuing year of war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will prevai...
10 Okt 20241h
Israel's War: Past and Future of Hamas
This is the first of two episodes dealing with the consequences of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and ensuing year of war. A year after Israel began its military campaign in Gaza with the aim of...
7 Okt 202434min
The Looming Quagmire
Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon is evoking comparisons to 1982, the year Israel tried to rout an enemy on the other side of the border, leading to a catastrophe for Palestinian civilians. What h...
3 Okt 202448min
Russia's Exiles
Russian exiles in the West may not be able to change, let alone save, their home country, which is locked in the grip of the Putin autocracy, at war in Ukraine, and in a long conflict with the United ...
1 Okt 202445min
Nation-Building or Nation-Wrecking
After the disastrous failures of the U.S. projects in Iraq and Afghanistan, many Americans have soured on nation-building, especially if it involves the deployment of U.S. troops in a hostile country ...
26 Sep 20241h 18min
Why the Electoral College?
As another presidential election looms, so does the possibility that the ultimate winner will lose the popular vote. The race is decided by the Electoral College, which critics say is anti-democratic ...
24 Sep 202448min
Biden Doctrine, Revisited
Is there a Biden Doctrine? What did it achieve? Where did it fail? The president sought to reset U.S. foreign policy after the unilateralism of the Trump years. Biden spoke of a global battle pitting ...
19 Sep 202448min
