Foreign Policy

Inside the Vietnam War

Mark Moyar joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968. Continue Reading »

16 May 2023

The Lessons of Russian Warmaking

by George Weigel

Four and a half months after Russia invaded Ukraine on the Orwellian pretext of “de-Nazification,” what have we learned about, and from, the Russian way of war?
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6 Jul 2022

Andrew Bacevich on American Interventionism

by R. R. Reno

Andrew Bacevich joins the podcast to talk about American foreign policy, discussing American elites' push for military interventions, in the middle east and elsewhere, and the future of American military and economic power. Continue Reading »

30 Jun 2022

Michael Doran on the Theology of Foreign Policy

by R. R. Reno

Michael Doran joins the podcast to talk about the tangled history of liberal internationalism and theological modernism. Continue Reading »

12 May 2022

The Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow

by George Weigel

A meeting between the current Bishop of Rome and the current Patriarch of Moscow would not have been a meeting of two religious leaders. It would have been a meeting between a religious leader and an instrument of Russian state power. Continue Reading »

27 Apr 2022

On Ukraine

by George Weigel

Whatever the current military developments, a Russian invasion of Ukraine has not been “imminent”; the invasion is ongoing. Continue Reading »

23 Feb 2022

Russia, Ukraine, and Moral Reckoning

by George Weigel

Putin is conducting a carefully orchestrated campaign to reverse history’s verdict in the Cold War and subjugate the now-independent former “republics” of the old Soviet Union. Continue Reading »

26 Jan 2022