Why America May Not Be Ready for the Wars of the Future (#302)
Episode Date: May 19, 2026When people think about war, they picture missiles and mushroom clouds.But what if the greatest threats today are the ones most people never see comin...
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302 episodes transcribedWhen people think about war, they picture missiles and mushroom clouds.But what if the greatest threats today are the ones most people never see comin...
Most people see the world as the U.S. vs. China.But the real power shift is happening elsewhere.Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American...
Inflation, interest rates, AI, tariffs, the dollar…Most people treat them as separate stories but actually, they’re not.Former Council of Economics Ch...
“We trained a whole country.”It sounds like an exaggeration.It’s not - according to Patrick McGee, author of Apple in China.So what actually happened...
Dr. Tom Mihaljevic, CEO of Cleveland Clinic and a leading heart surgeon, explains how medicine is already changing in ways most people don’t see.He ha...
Iran briefly showed it could choke off a waterway carrying nearly a fifth of the world’s oil.That’s the visible threat.The real risk may be something...
We’re entering a world where life itself could become programmable.What if creating new forms of life becomes as simple as writing code? Geneticist Ad...
Is the war with Iran actually a turning point for the Middle East?Dan Kurtzer - former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt, advisor to presidents, and...
Love him or hate him, Elon Musk has upended entire industries - from cars to rockets - by doing things differently.Jon McNeill, former president of Te...
A few paragraphs from Washington once stopped oil tankers in their tracks halfway around the world - no navy, no missiles. Eddie Fishman, who helped d...
Scientists are finding tiny fragments of plastic inside the human body - including the brain.Dr. Matthew Campen of the University of New Mexico explai...
The government feels louder and faster than ever: executive actions, constant disruption, everything happening at once. But Yuval Levin of the America...
The rules of quantum physics aren’t just strange - they’re usable. Particles can exist in multiple states at once. Observation can reshape reality. No...
The Constitution isn’t just a statement of ideals. It’s a framework for power - built to divide authority so that no single institution can fully cont...
We all love the thrill of winning - the house, the promotion, the deal. But as Nobel laureate Richard Thaler explains, some of our biggest “wins” are...
The American Dream promises that hard work leads to a better life. But for many children today, that promise depends less on effort and more on where...
Federal Judge Jed Rakoff has spent decades inside the justice system - as a prosecutor, a defense attorney, and now a judge. In this conversation, he...
We think laughter is a response to something funny.A joke. A punchline. A light moment.But listen closely to real conversations, and laughter shows up...
Elon Musk and Geoffrey Hinton warn of an AI-driven job apocalypse.MIT’s David Autor, one of the world’s leading thinkers on how technology reshapes wo...
Jack Goldsmith, who once ran the Justice Department office that advises presidents on what they can and can’t legally do, takes on some of the hardest...