Right Wing Ascendant
Elohim Monard joins The Jacob Shapiro Podcast to discuss Latin America. A massive geopolitical integration in LatAm is quietly underway, fueled by a "Trumpian" rightward shift sweeping from the Southe...
22 Dec 202553min
The Return of Imperial Strategy
Power gets loud when it’s insecure. Strategy becomes theater. And ideology sneaks in wearing policy jargon. The White House's newest U.S. National Security Strategy claims realism while quietly demand...
12 Dec 202557min
The Geography of a Missing Daughter
Book episode! What happens when a policy meant to shape a nation reaches into the most intimate corners of a family’s life? Journalist Barbara Demick'sDaughters of the Bamboo Grove becomes a prism for...
2 Dec 202552min
The Geopolitics of Personalized Money
As global finance strains under shifting power structures, author and fintech thinker Emmanuel Daniel, founder of TAB Global, argues that the real disruption isn’t technological - it’s personal. This ...
25 Nov 20251h 4min
Demand Shock
Tariffs promise protection but unleash deeper shocks - reshaping demand, distorting prices, and testing the resilience of an already-strained economic system. Rob Larity and Jacob unpack the widening ...
22 Nov 20251h 1min
"What the West Should Learn from China"
China’s rise is often framed as a geopolitical contest, but Kaiser Y Kuo, host of the Sinica Podcast, pushes us to confront something deeper: what if China’s transformation exposes the West’s blind sp...
20 Nov 20251h 9min
“The Longevity Dividend, or, Why You Shouldn’t Bathe in the Blood of Virgins”
Aging quietly shapes everything - our economies, our politics, our families, and the horizon of what nations can become. Jacob and longevity expert Dylan Livingston, founder of the Alliance for Longev...
17 Nov 20251h 2min
“ChatGPT is so mid”, or, Why AI Won’t Change the World
Technological revolutions rarely unfold the way we imagine. From the steam engine to AI, each wave reshapes who creates value - and who gets left behind. What if artificial intelligence isn’t a revolu...
10 Nov 202559min
