Spies, Spies, Spies!
In most major works of history, the "intelligence dimension" has been badly lacking. Enter Calder Walton, a scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of "Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Betwee...
5 Okt 20231h 4min
Nixon May Have Been Right (About Russia)
When President Bill Clinton eulogized Richard Nixon in April 1994, he briefly referred to advice he had received from the former president just the month before. "Even in the final weeks of his life, ...
3 Okt 202359min
The Rise of Poland
If Europe's center of gravity is moving east, Poland is a rising military and economic force whose support for Ukraine, recent tensions with Kyiv notwithstanding, is indispensable to European security...
28 Sep 202335min
Recovering a Vanished World
The Eastern Europe that existed before the horrors of the 20th century was a world of ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity and relative tolerance, "a kind of ramshackle utopia" with "many peopl...
26 Sep 202337min
Chile's Coup
In the midst of a constitutional crisis, Chileans are also at odds over the legacy of one of the darkest days in their past. Fifty years ago, in September 1973, a military coup, welcomed but not direc...
21 Sep 20231h 13min
Collapse of Trust
Every major poll on public trust in institutions finds that Americans have little confidence in the government, news media, banks, big business, and more. Across the board, Americans do not expect the...
19 Sep 202352min
What If? Kennedy and Vietnam
This is the first episode in an occasional series examining major counterfactual scenarios in history. As the 60th anniversary of his assassination approaches, a question still hangs over John F. Ken...
14 Sep 202347min
War for Donbas / War for Ukraine
Ukraine's leadership remains committed to liberating all territory now under Russian military occupation. This includes parts of the eastern Donbas region whose villages have been depopulated and its ...
12 Sep 202357min
