Political and geopolitical analysis from the world's top experts, hosted by Dan Senor.
369 episodes transcribedAnti-semitism was tragically back in the news in recent days with the hostage-taking at the Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. But was this...
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...
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 kineti...
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 refe...
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...
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...
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 q...
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...
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 p...
The first of our two-part conversation with Naill Ferguson is on applied history’s lessons of the 1920s and the 1970s...for the 2020s. Niall is a hi...
Welcome to our new podcast, “Call Me Back”, where we try to zoom out from minute-to-minute news and look back to how we got here, what we can learn fr...
The recent electoral outcomes in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City, Buffalo, Minneapolis and other areas across the country were as much to do with...
Have we revolutionized vaccine development? What does this mean for our lives and our health well beyond the vaccine for Covid-19? Could this kind of...
In the middle of the pandemic, Dr. Nicholas Christakis released a sweeping book, called “Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavir...
During the pandemic, standardized tests were suspended in an entire range of educational institutions. Will these changes be temporary or permanent?...
JASON RILEY’S BOOK: “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell”https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/maverick-jason-riley/1137602681?ean=9781541619685 THOMAS SO...
Books and essays discussed in this episode: Shall We Wake the President: Two Centuries of Disaster Management from the Oval Office by Tevi Troyhttps:/...
On this podcast, we’ve talked to a lot of policy-makers, pundits, professionals and practitioners about big picture trends they are observing and expe...
To find the published pieces discussed in this episode: “What the Coronavirus Crisis Reveals About American Medicine”, by Sid Mukherjee, The New Yorke...
The Pandemic has either caused a crack-up in our politics or accelerated the crack-up that was well under way. And just when it looked like things wer...
