“Back in the USSR” with The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Russell Mead
In these conversations, we’ve talked a lot about tensions on the Russia-Ukraine border. But what we haven’t talked about is whether Putin is actually trying to re-assemble the former Soviet Union, whe...
15 Jan 202249min
How does a war with China start? With Admiral James Stavridis
On this podcast series, and in many other discussions and debates in think tanks and in the media, we often speculate about the likelihood of a kinetic conflict with China – is it inevitable? Or is it...
7 Jan 20221h 7min
From Baby Boom to Baby Bust - with Nicholas Eberstadt
China is poised to pass one of the great demographic inflection points” – that’s according to the Financial Times. The inflection point the FT is referring to is that of diapers for the elderly growin...
31 Dec 20211h
Revisiting The New Inflation - with Mohamed El-Erian
The Covid-19 recession technically ended in April 2020. At two months, it was one of the shortest economic recessions in history. Since then, we have experienced record inflation. Last summer, we sat ...
30 Dec 202152min
Revisiting China’s Great Wall of Steel - with Matt Pottinger
This week we are re-posting some of our episodes from 2021 that are most relevant right now. We’ll start with Matt Pottinger on recent developments in China. China’s borders have been sealed for almos...
28 Dec 20211h 2min
How Omicron Stunned The Scientific Community - With Scott Gottlieb
What about Omicron has most surprised the scientific community? What does it tell us about vaccines and where we’re heading? These are among the big questions we have for Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former Co...
17 Dec 20211h
Russia: In decline or on the march? with Richard Fontaine
Russia poses a threat to Ukraine, again. But what about Russian President Putin’s threat to the unity of Europe, and what do recent developments tell us about global perceptions of America's geopoliti...
11 Dec 202154min
The American College Crack-Up - with Niall Ferguson
In this decade we may finally experience a true crack-up in higher education. There have been comparable periods on American college campuses in the past (in the 1960s and 1980s, for example). But o...
4 Dec 202129min
