The Prof G Pod

Timothy Snyder on What He Saw in Kharkiv — and Why America Is to Blame

Russia is systematically destroying the Ukrainian economy. Um it's making people's lives very hard. It's destroying their livelihoods. And I should add that this is our fault if we're Americans because it's American policy to deny Ukraine the missile defense that it needs.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Walter Russell Mead - How America Keeps Winning - [Invest Like the Best, EP.490]

The United States is the only great power in history that has never had to worry about invasion across its land borders from another great power. Mexico and Canada are not threatening to invade. This gives Americans a kind of strategic luxury that no other great power has ever had.

The Business of Tech

The drone builder making waves in defence tech

We can't simply outsource our security, our industrial capability, and our understanding of these technologies to other countries. then act surprised when the strategic environment changes around us.

Radiolab

60 Words

those 60 words have become the legal foundation for the "war on terror." We go into the meetings that took place in the chaotic days just after 9/11, speak with Congresswoman Barbara Lee and former Congressman Ron Dellums about the vote on the AUMF.

Radiolab

60 Words

those 60 words have become the legal foundation for the "war on terror." In this collaboration with BuzzFeed, reporter Gregory Johnsen tells us the story of how this has come to be one of the most important, confusing, troubling sentences of the last two decades.

Radiolab

60 Words

Over the last decade, those 60 words have become the legal foundation for the "war on terror."

The Prof G Pod

Anne Applebaum: The Most Under-Reported Story of 2026

And suddenly Ukraine isn't a victim, it's a provider of security. And And And it's a provider of security despite the fact that the US cut off supplies to Ukraine.

The Prof G Pod

Anne Applebaum: The Most Under-Reported Story of 2026

Suddenly Ukraine isn't a victim, it's a provider of security. And And And it's a provider of security despite the fact that the US cut off supplies to Ukraine. I I believe hoping that you that meant that Ukraine would surrender.

Fresh Air

How Trump made an estimated $2.2 billion last year

The Air Force One is actually designed to be able to keep flying in the event of a nuclear war. I mean, a terrible potential scenario. So they actually put like special shielding around all of the electrical wires and electrical components, so that if there were to be an electromagnetic pulse, which can result from a nuclear weapon, that it doesn't lose electric power, which would obviously imagine what would happen on a plane if it lost electric power.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Darren Farber on Iran, China, and the Rise of Neoprimes - [Invest Like the Best, EP.474]

The U.S. has been the world's dominant military power for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to have a peer competitor. And the scary thing is that China isn't just catching up — in some domains, they've already surpassed us.

China Decode

The HIGH-STAKES Trump-Xi Summit Preview | China Decode

Both sides now openly acknowledge that the US and China no longer see trade and technology as economic issues alone. They see them increasingly as national security weapons.