News Roundup - July 7, 2025
Mon, 7 Jul 2025
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Netanyahu’s Endgame - with Ari Shavit
Thu, 3 Jul 2025
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Ending the Gaza War - with Nadav Eyal
Mon, 30 Jun 2025
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Part 2: What’s left of Iran’s nuclear program? - with Lahav Harkov and David Albright
Fri, 27 Jun 2025
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Part 1: How Iran built its nuclear program - with David Albright
Fri, 27 Jun 2025
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CEASEFIRE! - with Amit Segal and Nadav Eyal
Tue, 24 Jun 2025
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EMERGENCY EPISODE: AMERICA STRIKES IRAN - with Nadav Eyal and Amit Segal
Sun, 22 Jun 2025
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Can Israel do it alone? - With Nadav Eyal
Sat, 21 Jun 2025
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Bonus Episode: A Pivotal Mayoral Race for NYC’s Jews - with Howard Wolfson
Sat, 21 Jun 2025
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News Roundup - June 18th, 2025
Thu, 19 Jun 2025
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DESTROY, DELAY OR DISMANTLE? - with Nadav Eyal and Karim Sadjapour
Wed, 18 Jun 2025
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News Roundup - June 16th, 2025
Tue, 17 Jun 2025
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Will the U.S. Deal Iran its Final Blow? - with Amit Segal
Mon, 16 Jun 2025
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INSIDE THE ATTACK ON IRAN - with Nadav Eyal
Sat, 14 Jun 2025
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Special Announcement
Fri, 13 Jun 2025
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Emergency Episode: ISRAEL AT WAR WITH IRAN - With Ronen Bergman
Fri, 13 Jun 2025
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What’s a Win? - with Dr. Tal Becker
Thu, 12 Jun 2025
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Biden Lead Negotiator Brett McGurk
Mon, 9 Jun 2025
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The Emerging Day After in Gaza - with Joseph Braude
Fri, 6 Jun 2025
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The 8th Front - with Nadav Eyal
Thu, 5 Jun 2025
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Trump: “Don’t!” - with Nadav Eyal and Amit Segal
Thu, 29 May 2025
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Optimism for (Some) U.S. Universities - with Will Inboden & Eric Cohen
Thu, 29 May 2025
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Shavuot asks - what's the point of it all? - with Rachel Goldberg-Polin
Mon, 26 May 2025
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EMERGENCY EPISODE: Is this the Global Intifada? - with Mitch Silber
Fri, 23 May 2025
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Pressure mounts to end the War - with Amit Segal and Nadav Eyal
Thu, 22 May 2025
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Dan's State of World Jewry Address - Part II
Mon, 19 May 2025
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Dan Senor’s State of World Jewry Address (@92NY)
Thu, 15 May 2025
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Will Trump end the war in Gaza? - With Amit Segal and Nadav Eyal
Mon, 12 May 2025
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An update on recent events
Mon, 12 May 2025
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The Saudi Deal and the Reoccupation of Gaza – with Lahav Harkov
Fri, 9 May 2025
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What’s at Stake in Trump’s Upcoming Gulf Summit – with Mike Singh & Nadav Eyal
Mon, 5 May 2025
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EMERGENCY EPISODE: Houthi Missile Hits Ben Gurion Airport - with Nadav Eyal
Sun, 4 May 2025
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The Echoes of Israel’s Founding Fathers - with Yossi Klein Halevi
Fri, 2 May 2025
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Israel’s Third Founding Moment - with Yonatan Adiri & Michal Lev-Ram
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
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Is Israeli Society Descending into Madness? - with Ari Shavit
Thu, 24 Apr 2025
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Between Gaza and Tehran - with Amit Segal & Nadav Eyal
Mon, 21 Apr 2025
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The US-Iran Deal Israel Fears - with Jonathan Schanzer
Thu, 17 Apr 2025
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Mon, 14 Apr 2025
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What is Trump’s Iran strategy? - with Nadav Eyal
Thu, 10 Apr 2025
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The Paradox of Passover 2025 - with Rachel Goldberg Polin
Mon, 7 Apr 2025
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Gazans Rise Up Against Hamas — with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
Mon, 31 Mar 2025
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Bonus Episode: Senator Dave McCormick & Dina Powell McCormick on Mentoring
Sat, 29 Mar 2025
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The Politics of the Shin Bet: A History – with Amichai Cohen
Thu, 27 Mar 2025
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WAR AND STRIFE - with Seth Frantzman
Mon, 24 Mar 2025
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EMERGENCY EPISODE - with Amit Segal & Nadav Eyal
Wed, 19 Mar 2025
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The Zionist Opposition - with Yair Lapid
Mon, 17 Mar 2025
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Why did Hollywood ghost a movie about antisemitism? - with Wendy Sachs & Lorenzo Vidino
Thu, 13 Mar 2025
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Former Defense Minister YOAV GALLANT (Part 2) - The Hostage Dilemma
Mon, 10 Mar 2025
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Bonus Episode: Are ANY colleges confronting the madness? - With Andrew Martin & Santa Ono
Sun, 9 Mar 2025
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Is the Two-State Solution Really Dead? - With Yair Golan
Thu, 6 Mar 2025
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The IDF’s 10/7 Probe - with Amos Harel & Nadav Eyal
Mon, 3 Mar 2025
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John Fetterman's Israel
Thu, 27 Feb 2025
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The likelihood of Phase Two - with Amit Segal
Mon, 24 Feb 2025
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History’s Case for Trump’s Gaza Plan - with Andrew Roberts
Sat, 22 Feb 2025
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The Tragic End of the Bibas Story - with Matti Friedman
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
This morning in Gaza, in a ceremony that was even more twisted than those that came before it, Hamas...
Resuming the Gaza War? - with Nadav Eyal
Mon, 17 Feb 2025
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FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER YOAV GALLANT: Part 1 - Four Days In October
Thu, 13 Feb 2025
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Could Trump’s Vision for Gaza Be Real? - with Amit Segal & Nadav Eyal
Mon, 10 Feb 2025
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EMERGENCY EPISODE: TRUMP & THE FUTURE OF GAZA - with Rich Goldberg
Wed, 5 Feb 2025
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The Road to Riyadh - with Nadav Eyal
Mon, 3 Feb 2025
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Decoding Trump’s Foreign Policy - with Walter Russell Mead
Thu, 30 Jan 2025
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The Deal and its Political Fallout - with Amit Segal
Tue, 28 Jan 2025
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A new U.S. president and the Middle East - with Tal Becker
Fri, 24 Jan 2025
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COMING HOME - with Yossi Klein Halevi & Wendy Singer
Mon, 20 Jan 2025
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THE HOSTAGE DEAL - with Nadav Eyal
Thu, 16 Jan 2025
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Trump’s National Security Adviser Mike Waltz
Wed, 15 Jan 2025
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We need to talk about Turkey - with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak & Nadav Eyal
Mon, 13 Jan 2025
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What Happened to Jimmy Carter? - with Ken Stein
Fri, 10 Jan 2025
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The IDF's top secret commando operation in Syria - with Nadav Eyal
Mon, 6 Jan 2025
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How Israel’s Spies Penetrated Hezbollah - with Ronen Bergman
Thu, 2 Jan 2025
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The Brutality of War - with Yossi Klein Halevi
Mon, 30 Dec 2024
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REPLAY: Lessons learned from the hostage deal - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Fri, 27 Dec 2024
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The Hostage Negotiations - with Nadav Eyal
Mon, 23 Dec 2024
Over the past week, we have seen headline after headline, indicating that Israel and Hamas appear to...
1929: A harbinger of October 7th - with Yardena Schwartz
Fri, 20 Dec 2024
Was 1929 a harbinger of October 7th, 2023? August 23rd, 1929, nearly 100 years ago, marks the day o...
Assad’s Death Factory - with Joseph Braude & Ahed Al Hendi
Mon, 16 Dec 2024
Many would consider the term ‘death factory’ to be associated with another era, one that is long...
Iran’s Next Move - with Raz Zimmt
Thu, 12 Dec 2024
Over the past few months, and especially in recent days, we have seen Iran’s decades-old proxy sys...
A WINDOW OPENS FOR A HOSTAGE DEAL - with Nadav Eyal
Tue, 10 Dec 2024
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THE END OF ASSAD IN SYRIA - with Nadav Eyal
Sun, 8 Dec 2024
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Chaos in Syria: a win for Israel & US? - with Yonatan Adiri
Thu, 5 Dec 2024
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Is Israel Winning? - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 2 Dec 2024
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CEASEFIRE - with David Horovitz
Tue, 26 Nov 2024
On October 8th, 2023, Hezbollah joined the war against Israel. Now, nearly fifteen months later, a c...
The ICC vs Netanyahu & Gallant - with Natasha Hausdorff
Mon, 25 Nov 2024
This past Thursday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israel’s pri...
Ending the Lebanon War - with Nadav Eyal
Thu, 21 Nov 2024
On an almost daily basis, Hezbollah fires hundreds of missiles and rockets into Israel’s North. An...
How Vanderbilt University is getting it right - with Chancellor Diermeier
Mon, 18 Nov 2024
Well before October 7th 2023, we were already witnessing too many examples of the worst in higher ed...
The Future of Gaza - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Thu, 14 Nov 2024
In recent weeks, with the IDF focusing most of its attention on the Northern front, the media has be...
The Far Left’s Gift to Trump - with Ritchie Torres
Mon, 11 Nov 2024
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POGROM IN AMSTERDAM - with Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Omer Bigger
Fri, 8 Nov 2024
Last night in Amsterdam, dozens of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans suffered a pogrom in the streets of Amsterd...
GALLANT FIRED, TRUMP ELECTED – with Nadav Eyal & Amit Segal
Thu, 7 Nov 2024
Last night in Israel, in what came as a shock to many Israelis, Prime Minister Netanyahu fired Defen...
Iran’s November Surprise? with Nadav Eyal
Sun, 3 Nov 2024
With two days before the US presidential election, there is increasing (and surprising) speculation ...
Israel, Iran, Trump, Harris - with Dr. Micah Goodman
Fri, 1 Nov 2024
WATCH THE CONVERSATION ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/-MGg6Oe5_7AMicah Goodman is on the speed-dial of...
“The Ayatollah has no clothes” - with Rich Goldberg and Richard Fontaine
Tue, 29 Oct 2024
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EMERGENCY EPISODE - Israel Attacks Iran: with Nadav Eyal and Jonathan Schanzer
Sat, 26 Oct 2024
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Scott Galloway - One Year Since October 7
Wed, 23 Oct 2024
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The fate of the hostages, post Sinwar - with Maya Roman and Gil Dickmann
Mon, 21 Oct 2024
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Bonus Episode: The People's Army - with Dr. Tuvia Book
Mon, 21 Oct 2024
LIVE EVENT ALERT – PITTSBURGH: On Monday October 28th at 6:00 PM, Dan will be speaking at a live e...
EMERGENCY EPISODE: SINWAR DEAD — with Nadav Eyal & Haviv Rettig Gur
Thu, 17 Oct 2024
Yahya Sinwar is dead. To help us better understand what happened in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the...
Biden-Harris ‘Jekyll-Hyde’ Israel Policy — with Rich Goldberg
Wed, 16 Oct 2024
In recent days, the Biden-Harris administration has announced it would deploy the THAAD system to I...
One Year Since October 7th - with Tal Becker
Mon, 14 Oct 2024
WATCH THE CONVERSATION ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/2yK4Ag_Ca2g As we have just passed the grim one...
Memorializing a war while still fighting - with Matti Friedman
Thu, 10 Oct 2024
This past Monday marked the grim one-year anniversary of October 7th. Around the world, Jewish commu...
One Year Since October 7th - with Amir Tibon
Mon, 7 Oct 2024
WATCH THE CONVERSATION ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/DfZZbwMuSe0 As we arrive at the grim one-year...
IDF INVADES LEBANON, IRAN STRIKES - with Nadav Eyal and Matt Levitt
Wed, 2 Oct 2024
The past couple days have seen some of the most fast-moving and potentially region-altering events s...
NASRALLAH DEAD, HEZBOLLAH CRIPPLED - with Nadav Eyal
Sat, 28 Sep 2024
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Emergency Episode — OPERATION NORTHERN ARROWS — with Nadav Eyal
Tue, 24 Sep 2024
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One Year Since October 7th - with Yossi Klein Halevi
Mon, 23 Sep 2024
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BEEP! with Nadav Eyal
Wed, 18 Sep 2024
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One Year Since October 7th - with Sam Harris
Mon, 16 Sep 2024
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One Year Since October 7th - with Douglas Murray
Sun, 8 Sep 2024
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Bibi’s message vs Bibi the messenger - with Nadav Eyal and Amit Segal
Thu, 5 Sep 2024
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The execution of six hostages - with Haviv Rettig Gur & Wendy Singer
Mon, 2 Sep 2024
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Rahm Emanuel
Fri, 30 Aug 2024
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ISRAEL PREEMPTIVELY STRIKES HEZBOLLAH – with Nadav Eyal & Ronen Bergman
Sun, 25 Aug 2024
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A Deal on the Verge of Collapse – with Nadav Eyal
Fri, 23 Aug 2024
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A new (and bolder) approach to Iran? – with Mark Dubowitz
Mon, 19 Aug 2024
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Holding Pattern(s) – with Jonathan Schanzer
Fri, 16 Aug 2024
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Hostage Deal? Iran Attack? And Tisha B’Av - with Haviv Rettig Gur & Nadav Eyal
Mon, 12 Aug 2024
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What's the Iran strategy? - with Nadav Eyal and Matt Levitt
Fri, 9 Aug 2024
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Israelis anticipate the response — with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 5 Aug 2024
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HANIYEH DEAD - with Ronen Bergman & Nadav Eyal
Wed, 31 Jul 2024
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Decision Time In The North - with Matti Friedman
Mon, 29 Jul 2024
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Divergent reactions to BiBi’s address & its impact — with Nadav Eyal
Thu, 25 Jul 2024
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Israel retaliates against the Houthis - with Ronen Bergman
Mon, 22 Jul 2024
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Bibi in Washington - with Amit Segal
Fri, 19 Jul 2024
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The Death of Deif – A turning point? With Ronen Bergman
Mon, 15 Jul 2024
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Naftali Bennett, (former) Prime Minister
Fri, 12 Jul 2024
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The American Victims of 10/07 — with Jonathan Greenblatt
Wed, 10 Jul 2024
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A Hostage Deal — with Haviv Rettig Gur & Nadav Eyal
Mon, 8 Jul 2024
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The IDF advocates for an end to the war - with Nadav Eyal
Wed, 3 Jul 2024
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Mike Murphy’s Biden (retirement) Plan
Mon, 1 Jul 2024
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Bonus Episode: Noa Tishby and Emmanuel Acho
Sat, 29 Jun 2024
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Where was the IDF on Oct 7? - with Ronen Bergman
Thu, 27 Jun 2024
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The ‘Day After’ Document - with Prof. Netta Barak-Corren
Mon, 24 Jun 2024
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Call me Back LIVE - with Michael Rapaport
Sat, 22 Jun 2024
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Is Israel headed for a two-front war? - with Nadav Eyal
Thu, 20 Jun 2024
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Divisions in Israeli society - with Dr. Micah Goodman
Mon, 17 Jun 2024
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Haviv Unplugged!
Thu, 13 Jun 2024
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OPERATION ARNON - with Nadav Eyal
Mon, 10 Jun 2024
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The Great Powers and the War in Gaza - with Walter Russell Mead
Fri, 7 Jun 2024
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The last Israeli to negotiate with the Palestinians - with Tzipi Livni (Part 2)
Thu, 6 Jun 2024
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The last Israeli to negotiate with the Palestinians - with Tzipi Livni (Part 1)
Wed, 5 Jun 2024
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A proposal to end the war? — with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 3 Jun 2024
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What we know about captivity in Gaza - with Glenn Cohen
Fri, 31 May 2024
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Diplomatic Avalanche - with Nadav Eyal and Matt Waxman
Fri, 24 May 2024
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Rafah, Egypt & the "Day After" - with Amos Harel
Thu, 23 May 2024
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And then there was Gantz - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 20 May 2024
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Bonus Episode: Will the Middle East Be Unrecognizable? - with Jared Cohen
Sun, 19 May 2024
Jared Cohen is Co-Head of the Office of Applied Innovation and President of Global Affairs at Goldma...
SPECIAL EPISODE: Gallant Strikes (Again) - with Nadav Eyal
Thu, 16 May 2024
Last night, Israel time, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant took the exceptional step of publicly declari...
Israeli Independence - with Dr. Tal Becker
Thu, 16 May 2024
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Sun, 12 May 2024
At 8:00 pm tonight in Israel, the siren will sound across Israel to mark the commencement of Israel’...
Screams Before Silence - with Sheryl Sandberg
Fri, 10 May 2024
Sheryl Sandberg is one of the most accomplished executives in the tech industry. After attending Har...
The Rise and Fall of a Hostage Deal - with Nadav Eyal
Wed, 8 May 2024
What exactly unfolded in Israel over the past 72 hours? Details are still emerging, but at one point...
The Age of Grievance - with Frank Bruni
Mon, 6 May 2024
Frank Bruni is a long time journalist, including more than 25 years with the New York Times. He is t...
Israel's Sophie's Choice - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Thu, 2 May 2024
There are two major decisions Israel is contending with right now: I) proceed with the military oper...
Proof of Life - with Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
Share on Twitter: https://tinyurl.com/4ku8n3r3 After over 200 days, Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin s...
Bonus Episode: Diary from Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone’ - with Michael Powell
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
Michael Powell has been covering New York City life and politics for decades, as a long-time reporte...
An Insider's Account of Columbia's Pro-Hamas Protests - with Shai Davidai
Fri, 26 Apr 2024
Share on Twitter: tinyurl.com/5n6bswst Since 10/07, no faculty member at Columbia University (or an...
A lot is happening in the Middle East... and nothing at all - with Nadav Eyal
Mon, 22 Apr 2024
Share on Twitter: https://tinyurl.com/3wv3d77z As we try to make sense of the past two weeks, consi...
How Israel Lost The Story - with Scott Galloway
Wed, 17 Apr 2024
Special Episode: Did Iran Miscalculate? - with Nadav Eyal
Sun, 14 Apr 2024
What it’s like to fight for your (captive) family - with Maya Roman
Fri, 12 Apr 2024
There has been growing tension within Israeli society over where to prioritize a hostage deal – at...
Data Science Vs Hamas Math - with Abraham Wyner
Wed, 10 Apr 2024
30,000. You hear that number and you already know exactly what we are referring to. It’s 30,000 ca...
Is the war in Gaza over? With Nadav Eyal
Mon, 8 Apr 2024
Is Israel Losing America's Jews? With Yossi Klein Halevi and Rabbi David Ingber
Fri, 5 Apr 2024
Over the past several weeks, especially the Biden administration’s statements Thursday, Israel has...
Is Gantz headed for the exit? with Anshel Pfeffer
Thu, 4 Apr 2024
On Wednesday, Benny Gantz announced he was calling for new elections to take place in September. Wha...
Lessons from Gaza for war against Hezbollah? - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 1 Apr 2024
Biden’s two-pronged Israel strategy — with Bret Stephens
Fri, 29 Mar 2024
Since October 7, the United States has vetoed three resolutions put before the UN Security Council c...
Is Israel Alone? With Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 25 Mar 2024
The new edition of The Economist Magazine features a photo of an Israeli flag, blowing in the wind…...
War Cabinet Member, Ron Dermer
Thu, 21 Mar 2024
In the days ahead, Minister Dermer will be flying to Washington with a small delegation to meet with...
Biden's Bibi Problem - with Nadav Eyal
Mon, 18 Mar 2024
On October 6th of last year there was a long-standing ceasefire in place between Israel and Hamas. O...
The Sobering of the Israeli Left - with Dr. Einat Wilf
Fri, 15 Mar 2024
Since October 7, we have heard from more and more friends in Israel who came of age -- politically -...
My 'Come to Jesus' Moment with Haviv
Tue, 12 Mar 2024
As Ramadan begins, many analysts are speculating on what this means for Israel’s coming military o...
Israel’s Near Death Experience - with Micah Goodman
Wed, 6 Mar 2024
Micah Goodman is on the speed-dial of a number of Israeli political leaders – from right to left, ...
External pressures on Israel, and within - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 4 Mar 2024
Will there be a negotiated pause in fighting in advance of Ramadan, or will the IDF move against the...
1948 - with Benny Morris (Part 1)
Fri, 1 Mar 2024
PART 1 of 2 For more than 30 years of ‘on again-off again’ peace talks between Israel and the P...
1948 - with Benny Morris (Part 2)
Fri, 1 Mar 2024
PART 2 of 2 For more than 30 years of ‘on again-off again’ peace talks between Israel and the P...
The Anatomy of a Deal - with Nadav Eyal
Mon, 26 Feb 2024
Last week, Prime Minister Netanyahu released to his cabinet what could be interpreted as a first ske...
How Hamas fooled the world - with Matti Friedman
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
Every day we see news accounts “reported” by reputable journalists. There is typically one frame...
Is a peaceful Palestinian State even possible? - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 19 Feb 2024
On Sunday, Israel’s cabinet unanimously issued a statement rejecting efforts by the international ...
The spirit of a nation at war — with Wendy Singer
Sat, 17 Feb 2024
While there has been a lot of resentment inside Israel towards its political and security leadership...
Jerusalem - Rafah - Washington - with Nadav Eyal
Tue, 13 Feb 2024
Are we witnessing a dramatic change in the Biden administration’s approach to Israel’s defensive...
The cost of starting a (losing) war - with Dr. Einat Wilf
Thu, 8 Feb 2024
Today we look back at the history of Palestinian violence against the Jews in Israel (and in the pre...
How to build a Palestinian state - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 5 Feb 2024
Haviv Rettig Gur of the TIMES OF ISRAEL returns for his weekly check-in from Israel. There has bee...
UNRWA & Hamas, the perfect affair - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 29 Jan 2024
The UN has one central agency responsible for handling all refugees globally, but Palestinian refuge...
Can a Sunni-Israeli alliance win the war?
Fri, 26 Jan 2024
Al Jazeera is constantly blasting a steady stream of stories and images to the Arab world about 'ten...
Israel’s escalating internal debates — with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 22 Jan 2024
In today’s weekly check-in with Haviv Rettig Gur from the Times of Israel, we discuss intensifying...
The End of a Jewish Golden Age — with John Podhoretz
Sat, 20 Jan 2024
Will we look back at the past few decades in America as the Jewish ‘golden age’? And is this ‘...
On Sexual violence and… Silence - with Shari Mendes
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
Having recently passed the 100 day-mark of Hamas’s massacre against Israel, two events in recent w...
Haviv Rettig Gur (Part 2) - 100 Days into Israel's 'Forever War'
Mon, 15 Jan 2024
This past weekend, Israelis marked 100 days since the Hamas massacre -- and 100 days that 136 hostag...
Haviv Rettig Gur (Part 1) - 100 Days into Israel's 'Forever War'
Mon, 15 Jan 2024
This past weekend, Israelis marked 100 days since the Hamas massacre -- and 100 days that 136 hostag...
The Houthis and The Hague - with Nadav Eyal
Sat, 13 Jan 2024
In recent days, two big stories have gotten a lot bigger. The U.S. and U.K. have launched air and ...
Growing tensions between Hamas Leaders — with Dr. Matt Levitt
Tue, 9 Jan 2024
What do Israelis know about the political tensions within Hamas’s leadership? About their decision...
Gaza’s “Operating System” - with Nadav Eyal
Thu, 4 Jan 2024
Gaza runs like no sovereign entity. On the one hand, Hamas rules Gaza like any government does — i...
Haviv Rettig Gur on Palestinian radicalism - was 10/7 just another turn of the dial?
Sun, 31 Dec 2023
In recent days, we have been shocked to read the details in the New York Times investigative piece t...
From Hamas to Hezbollah to the Houtis & beyond — with Bret Stephens
Thu, 28 Dec 2023
Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times, returns for a conversation a...
A Shift in the War - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Sun, 24 Dec 2023
The Hamas-Israel War, nearing its three month mark, is now the longest war in Israel’s history sin...
An insider’s account of the Harvard Antisemitism Committee — with Rabbi David Wolpe
Fri, 22 Dec 2023
Understanding where and how antisemitism has come to exist at an institution like Harvard is the foc...
The Two-State Solution - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 18 Dec 2023
We are increasingly hearing from policymakers in the U.S. and around the world about re-starting the...
What starts with the Jews, rarely ends with just the Jews - with Yuval Levin
Sat, 16 Dec 2023
On previous episodes of this podcast we’ve discussed the origins and history of antisemitism. But ...
The 'Day After' in Gaza - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 11 Dec 2023
In today’s weekly check-in with Haviv Rettig Gur of The Times of Israel, we discuss Israel's curre...
Would Gazans rise up against Hamas? - with Amos Harel
Thu, 7 Dec 2023
Today we get an update on the IDF operation in South Gaza, what Israel is learning about the Gaza tu...
Hamas’s psychological warfare — with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 4 Dec 2023
In today’s weekly check-in with Haviv Rettig Gur of The Times of Israel, we discuss the volatility...
Haley's path & Biden's only move - with Mike Murphy
Sun, 3 Dec 2023
There are two storylines we have been following closely that are not necessarily shaped by the minut...
Douglas Murray debunks 5 lies about Israel
Thu, 30 Nov 2023
Douglas Murray, a British writer and commentator, has been on the ground in Israel for about a month...
Lessons learned from the hostage deal - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 27 Nov 2023
Today is our weekly check-in with Haviv Rettig Gur of The Times of Israel. We discuss early lessons ...
The hostage deal: a new phase in the war - with Amos Harel
Thu, 23 Nov 2023
Amos Harel has been the military correspondent and defense analyst for Israel's Haaretz newspaper fo...
The Price of Israeli Hostages - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 20 Nov 2023
Haviv Rettig Gur returns for our weekly conversation from Jerusalem to provide real-time reporting a...
A conversation with Yonit Levi & Jonathan Freedland
Sat, 18 Nov 2023
In this episode -- which we recorded just after the historic rally in Washington, DC and as we appro...
Anshel Pfeffer - Embedded in Gaza
Thu, 16 Nov 2023
It’s 5:45 am on Thursday, November 16 in New York City. It’s 12:45 pm in Israel. Early this mo...
Flipping the Script -- with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 13 Nov 2023
Haviv Rettig Gur returns for our weekly conversation from Jerusalem to provide real-time reporting a...
Israeli Resilience, Pre- & Post-10/07 - with Liel Leibovitz
Thu, 9 Nov 2023
This is a crossover episode with Liel Leibovitz in which we jointly release a conversation on the Ca...
American Jews on the Left, post-October 7th
Wed, 8 Nov 2023
Today we release the new book by Saul Singer and me: "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilienc...
30 days, 3 pressure points - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 6 Nov 2023
This week we release the new book by Saul Singer and me: "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resil...
BIDEN: "Don't!" / NASRALLAH: "I hear you." - emergency episode with Dr. Matthew Levitt
Fri, 3 Nov 2023
We just had a conversation with Dr. Matthew Levitt, an expert on Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah, get...
Understanding Israel's battlefields (& U.S. involvement) - with Dr. Fred Kagan
Fri, 3 Nov 2023
Next week we will release the new book by Saul Singer and me: "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising ...
Antisemitism. Everywhere.
Wed, 1 Nov 2023
Next week we will release the new book by Saul Singer and me: "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising ...
A post-October 7th security doctrine for Israel - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 30 Oct 2023
Haviv Rettig Gur returns for our weekly conversation from Israel to provide real-time reporting and ...
The Ground Operation Begins/End of hostage negotiations? — with Avi Issacharoff
Sat, 28 Oct 2023
Avi Issacharoff returns for an urgent update on overnight developments and their implications. Avi ...
A brief history of Hezbollah - with Dr. Matthew Levitt
Fri, 27 Oct 2023
Much like our earlier episode on the history of Hamas, today we look at the history of Hezbollah, an...
The Oldest Hatred... Post-October 7 - with Ritchie Torres, Michal Cotler Wunsh & Ethan Missner
Wed, 25 Oct 2023
Among the questions we've been getting since October 7 are those about antisemitism. Does this time ...
The Fog of Waiting - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Mon, 23 Oct 2023
Haviv Rettig Gur returns for our weekly conversation from Israel to provide real-time reporting and ...
Forecasting the war’s path ahead - with Michael Oren
Sat, 21 Oct 2023
This episode will be the first of a few conversations in which we touch on the range of directions t...
The Laws of War — with Matt Waxman
Fri, 20 Oct 2023
In President Biden’s address from the Oval Office, we continue to hear calls for Israel to respect...
Public sentiment on the eve of invasion - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Tue, 17 Oct 2023
Haviv Rettig Gur returns to our podcast to provide real-time reporting and analysis on the war, and ...
The Gazan Battlefield — with Avi Issacharoff
Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Today, we consider to what to expect when the IDF enters Gaza. Avi Issacharoff has been an analyst a...
The October Massacre changes... Everything - with Elliott Abrams
Sat, 14 Oct 2023
In this episode with Elliott Abrams, we provide additional detail on the history of Israel-Gaza/Hama...
The world unites against Hamas... for now - with Yaakov Katz
Thu, 12 Oct 2023
For analysis of the Israeli Government's formation of a (Netanyahu/Gantz) unity government and war c...
The history of Hamas, and its likely grim future - with Jonathan Schanzer
Wed, 11 Oct 2023
We have been getting a lot of questions about the history of Hamas, its ideological roots and object...
ISRAEL AT WAR: The multi-front probability - with Bret Stephens
Mon, 9 Oct 2023
Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times, returns for a conversation i...
ISRAEL AT WAR: The Hostage Dilemma - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Sun, 8 Oct 2023
Haviv Rettig Gur returns to our podcast to provide real-time reporting and analysis on the war, and ...
Karl Rove on our new (or not so new) political dysfunction
Thu, 5 Oct 2023
One day we’re talking about the 2024 presidential election being a re-match of the 2020 election. ...
Who will tell Biden? The dread of 2024 - with A.B. Stoddard
Mon, 2 Oct 2023
Many Democratic activists, strategists, donors, officeholders, and party leaders are privately discu...
What's with the GOP & these debates? - with Eliana Johnson
Thu, 28 Sep 2023
What to make of the most recent presidential debates? What to make of what we're learning from these...
What's with Republicans & Ukraine? - with Aaron MacLean
Tue, 26 Sep 2023
Why is U.S. assistance for Ukraine being held up in Congress? What is at stake for the U.S.? Aaron...
Will Saudi Arabia's MBS save Israel from its political crack-up? With Micah Goodman
Thu, 21 Sep 2023
Are you pessimistic about Israel’s future? My new book – which I wrote with my "Start-Up Nation"...
Unprecedented polarization, or has Israel been here before? With Meir Soloveichik
Mon, 18 Sep 2023
Items discussed in this episode:“The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nati...
Can we be optimistic about Israel? With Yossi Klein Halevi
Mon, 11 Sep 2023
Today is a special episode in which I preview some of the questions we try to answer in our new book...
Mohamed El-Erian on B-R-I-C-S (& J-E-T-S)
Thu, 7 Sep 2023
Dr. Mohamed El-Erian returns to the podcast to discuss the implications of the recent announcement o...
The inner workings of an untold (Iran) deal - with Rich Goldberg
Mon, 4 Sep 2023
Back in July, we dedicated an episode to the question of whether the U.S. was on the cusp of reachin...
A peek into a Trumpless election, or just a mirage? With Kristen Soltis Anderson
Mon, 28 Aug 2023
Kristen Soltis Anderson is a GOP pollster, messaging strategist, and Founding Partner of Echelon Ins...
Yevgeny Prigozhin falls from the sky
Fri, 25 Aug 2023
Special episode with Dr. Fred Kagan on the Russia-Ukraine war (and Putin's hold on power). Fred i...
Why China is studying America’s Forgotten War - with Rep. Mike Gallagher
Mon, 21 Aug 2023
There is a lot these days to discuss with a US official who is an expert on China and has major infl...
The Summer of Geopolitical Heat - with Walter Russell Mead
Mon, 14 Aug 2023
Throughout modern history, there were major wars that were triggered by fits of inattention or inadv...
Mike Murphy on Plan B for 2024
Mon, 7 Aug 2023
Each national political party should be thinking about their Plan B for the 2024 presidential electi...
Is Israeli society collapsing, or just growing up?
Mon, 31 Jul 2023
One week ago, Israel’s parliament passed the first pillar of its judicial reform package. This, de...
A techno-skeptic on the A.I. revolution - with Christine Rosen
Mon, 17 Jul 2023
Dr. Christine Rosen is skeptical of all the techno-optimism around the coming era of artificial inte...
The (Iran) deal that shall not be named - with Rich Goldberg
Mon, 10 Jul 2023
Is the US on the cusp of reaching a new deal with Iran? Or has a deal already been hatched that nobo...
Cracks in the Kremlin? With Fred Kagan
Wed, 5 Jul 2023
Does Putin’s hold on power now look stronger or weaker? What can we learn about where the Russia-U...
Contrarian take on the Wagner Putsch - with Richard Fontaine
Mon, 26 Jun 2023
Last weekend, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, launched a rebellion, cou...
SELECTS: The American College Crack-Up - with Niall Ferguson
Mon, 19 Jun 2023
In this special re-published episode, we revisit a captivating conversation that resonated deeply wi...
"Losers Don't Come to Their College Reunions" -- with Bruce Feiler
Mon, 12 Jun 2023
These days there are lots of conversations about the re-shaping of the workforce as a result of the ...
Bret Stephens teaches college grads to argue!
Mon, 5 Jun 2023
Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times, returns for a conversation i...
Optimism, AI (and the end of homework!) - with Tyler Cowen
Tue, 30 May 2023
Today’s guest is surprisingly upbeat about the world. A big factor in his optimism is the revolut...
Highest Risk: 2025-2026 - with HR McMaster
Mon, 22 May 2023
Upon graduation from the US Military Academy in 1984, HR McMaster served as a commissioned officer i...
The Invisible Primary - with Mike Murphy
Mon, 8 May 2023
In this episode, we go deep on the current phase (the invisible primary) of the 2024 presidential pr...
How do we know if a country is a success? Israel at 75, with Daniel Gordis
Mon, 1 May 2023
Items discussed in this episode"Impossible Takes Longer":https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/impossible...
The *real* tensions inside Israel — with Micah Goodman
Mon, 24 Apr 2023
Over the past 16 weeks, Israel has experienced one of the biggest protest movements since its foundi...
IRAN - pariah no more? with Mark Dubowitz
Mon, 17 Apr 2023
Today we sit down in Israel with Mark Dubowitz, who is the CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of ...
Broken schools, newsrooms, governments & other institutions — Fixable or forever broken? with Alana Newhouse
Mon, 10 Apr 2023
"Brokenism", by Alana Newhouse - https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/brokenism-alana-ne...
"Silver Linings" in Israel's crisis? with Yaakov Katz
Mon, 3 Apr 2023
Yaakov Katz – Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post and a former advisor to Israeli Prime Minister...
Special Episode: Update on Israel's political crisis
Tue, 28 Mar 2023
In this special episode we play a conversation that Dan recently had on the Commentary Magazine podc...
US-China De-escalation? (& the latest on covid's origin) -- with Josh Rogin
Mon, 27 Mar 2023
Is the US Government trying to re-engage and bring down the temperature with China? Why right now? ...
"Did we break Iraq?" with Eli Lake
Mon, 20 Mar 2023
Twenty years ago this past week, on March 19, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq, marking the seco...
China Surprise: Saudi-Iranian Detente
Mon, 13 Mar 2023
China just announced that it had brokered a deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran to restore diplomatic...
Western ideas at their best & why they're under attack - with Eric Cohen
Mon, 6 Mar 2023
Eric Cohen is the CEO of Tikvah. He was the founder and remains editor-at-large of the New Atlantis,...
What does Biden mean by “as long as it takes”? - with Richard Fontaine
Mon, 27 Feb 2023
On the topic of geopolitics, international flashpoints and the state of the war, a surprisingly opti...
Niall Ferguson: How Cold War II Turns Hot
Mon, 20 Feb 2023
Historian Niall Ferguson returns to the podcast to look at how the current Cold War could turn hot. ...
Bonus Episode: Check-in on the Abraham Accords - with Aryeh Lightstone
Thu, 16 Feb 2023
The Abraham Accords were signed in September 2020. This agreement between Israel, the United Arab Em...
Mike Murphy on the 2024 presidential primaries
Mon, 13 Feb 2023
In this episode, we go deep on 2024 presidential primaries with Mike Murphy, who has worked on 26 gu...
Bonus Episode: Super Bowl & Beyond - with Mike Tanenbaum
Sat, 11 Feb 2023
Mike Tannenbaum has more than 2 decades of experience in NFL team front offices. He was an executiv...
Maggie Haberman on 2024
Mon, 6 Feb 2023
Are we actually headed for a replay of Trump vs Biden in 2024? How strong is Trump heading into the ...
US Foreign Policy in 2023 - with Congressman Mike Gallagher
Mon, 30 Jan 2023
Congressman Mike Gallagher returns to our podcast, this time to look ahead at American foreign polic...
Our new media diets - with John Podhoretz
Mon, 23 Jan 2023
In this episode, we break down changes in our media diets that have been changed as a result of the ...
The Economy in 2023 -- with Mohamed El-Erian
Mon, 16 Jan 2023
Is there any precedent for combating inflation that doesn’t end in recession or depression? This i...
Speaker McCarthy - with Matthew Continetti
Mon, 9 Jan 2023
“Democrats fall in love. Republicans fall in line." So said former President Bill Clinton. But it ...
Understanding Netanyahu’s new government - with Yaakov Katz
Tue, 3 Jan 2023
WIth Prime Minister Netanyahu's new government now sworn in, and also developments for Israel at the...
Special Episode: Bret Stephens on Cancel Culture
Mon, 2 Jan 2023
One of our regular guests – Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times...
Geopolitical threats as we enter ‘23 - with Senator Tom Cotton
Mon, 26 Dec 2022
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton recently announced that he would not run for president in 2024. And yet at t...
2024: DeSantis vs Polis? -- with Yuval Levin
Mon, 19 Dec 2022
Yuval Levin returns to the podcast. He's especially focused on whether we will have a replay of Trum...
Sleepwalking Through a Decisive Decade - with Bret Stephens
Mon, 12 Dec 2022
President Biden recently warned that the U.S. faces a 'decisive decade' in its rivalry with China. A...
Unrest in China — with Matt Pottinger
Mon, 5 Dec 2022
From civil disobedience we have not seen in China since Tiananmen Square, to loosening zero covid po...
Should the Democrats have won the House too? With Howard Wolfson
Mon, 21 Nov 2022
Most of the post-midterm commentary has been focused on how the Democrats pulled off a surprise win ...
Prime Minister Netanyahu
Mon, 14 Nov 2022
Looking back with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his new book, “BiBi: My Story”. Also look...
Mike Murphy on the Democrats' "Good Bad Night"
Thu, 10 Nov 2022
In this episode, we go deep on deconstructing the mid-term results. We try to understand the implica...
Israel’s Next Government - with Yaakov Katz
Fri, 4 Nov 2022
Yaakov Katz – Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post and a former advisor to Israeli Prime Minister...
Special Episode: "Taking the 5th" - Scenarios for Israel's next government
Tue, 1 Nov 2022
We join the team at Commentary Magazine for a discussion on scenarios for Israel's next government c...
The Economic "Trilemma" - with Mohamed El-Erian
Thu, 27 Oct 2022
Record inflation, another wake-up call out of Beijing, a new prime minister in the UK, overhang of s...
Karl Rove's "Crystal Ball"
Thu, 20 Oct 2022
With less than 3 weeks to the mid-term elections, Karl Rove joins the conversation. Karl served as S...
'No off ramps for Putin' - with Fred Kagan
Fri, 14 Oct 2022
With increasing talk about nuclear threats, we have three questions in this episode: What do we kno...
Cracks in Iran’s Theocracy - a view from a former CIA officer
Fri, 30 Sep 2022
We have all seen the images of women in cities across Iran burning their headscarves and cutting the...
BONUS EPISODE: Kol Nidrei...misunderstood - with Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
Fri, 30 Sep 2022
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, begins in a few days. Kol Nidrei, is one of the most misunderstood...
Putin's Panic Surge? With Richard Fontaine
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
Vladamir Putin has announced what he called a “partial mobilization” of up to 300,000 reservists...
Mike Murphy on the Mid-Terms (& the madness of polls)
Sat, 17 Sep 2022
Between now and November, we will be taking a close look at the midterm election season, which -- fo...
Iran, Israel & a Masterclass in US foreign policy - with Walter Russell Mead
Fri, 9 Sep 2022
Are we getting closer to or farther away from an Iran deal? Walter Russell Mead of The Wall Street J...
The Hidden Jobs Crisis - with Nicholas Eberstadt
Sat, 3 Sep 2022
While the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 3.7% in August from a low of 3.5% in July, job gro...
Who by Fire - With Matti Friedman
Thu, 18 Aug 2022
Matti Friedman is one of the most thoughtful writers when it comes to all matters related to Israel,...
The New Deal - Iran & its nuclear program, with Mark Dubowitz
Fri, 12 Aug 2022
What is happening right now in Vienna with the negotiations over the future of Iran’s nuclear prog...
Zawahiri, Putin & Pelosi - with Richard Fontaine
Fri, 5 Aug 2022
Why did Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei get such outsized attention? She’s not the first ...
The Summer of Shortages - with Scott Lincicome
Thu, 28 Jul 2022
Air travel this summer seems broken. On some days, major airlines have been canceling 10 percent o...
Britain's Next Prime Minister
Sun, 24 Jul 2022
This next week will be among the most consequential in contemporary British politics. Ballots are se...
Nine Point One - with Mohamed El-Erian
Thu, 14 Jul 2022
Inflation hit a staggering 9.1% over the last 12 months, rising 1.3% for the month of June. The inc...
“The War on Fun” with Noah Rothman
Fri, 8 Jul 2022
Are there comparable periods in our history that can guide us through the current ‘“woke” deba...
Bonus episode: Lessons from the collapse of the Israeli Government
Wed, 29 Jun 2022
Dan recently joined the Commentary Magazine podcast to share analysis on the current state of Israel...
The Coming Political Crack-Up — with Mike Murphy
Fri, 24 Jun 2022
What have we learned so far about this election cycle, and what does it tell us about what’s likel...
Saudi Arabia, Biden & The Nobel Peace Prize – with Amb. Ron Dermer
Fri, 17 Jun 2022
The Biden administration has announced that the President will take his first trip to the Middle Eas...
100 Days: The Tide Turns Towards Putin
Sat, 11 Jun 2022
After the 100-day mark of the 2022 Russian war against Ukraine. we assess some grim facts of this wa...
Revolution in Pro Sports Industry? With Jon Patricof
Mon, 23 May 2022
When it comes to the future of sports and entertainment, Jon Patricof is always trying to innovate a...
What Does Putin Want Now? - with Fred Kagan
Fri, 13 May 2022
What are his objectives at this point in his war against Ukraine? And what are Ukraine’s objective...
An entrepreneur & former Naval officer on Russia/Ukraine & Global Supply Chains -- with Ami Daniel
Sat, 7 May 2022
In Israel we sit down with an entrepreneur and former Naval officer, who has built a company that ha...
The Future of The Right - with Matthew Continetti
Fri, 29 Apr 2022
Should we be surprised that there seems to be a renewed by bi-partisan consensus in response to Puti...
Putin’s Newly Shattered Norms - With Richard Fontaine
Sat, 23 Apr 2022
Is Putin crossing almost every line the West did not anticipate he would cross? What does this tell ...
That '70s Show - with John Podhoretz
Fri, 15 Apr 2022
The 1970s were a tragedy – inflation, rising crime and crumbling cities, American humiliation abro...
A conversation with Ambassador Ron Dermer
Fri, 8 Apr 2022
The security situation continues to deteriorate in Israel -- tragic developments, including right in...
Paradox in US response to Russia? with Thomas Friedman of The New York Times
Fri, 1 Apr 2022
Regardless of how or when the Russia-Ukraine war ends, is it possible to see the very early signs of...
Iran Nuclear Negotiations - The Origin Story, with Ambassador Eric Edelman
Fri, 25 Mar 2022
While we are all following the minute to minute developments in Russia-Ukraine, a new international ...
5 Scenarios for Russia-Ukraine -- with Richard Fontaine
Fri, 18 Mar 2022
How could Russia-Ukraine escalate? How could it deescalate? Does Zelensky survive? Does Putin surviv...
What Xi is learning from Putin's war - with Matt Pottinger
Sat, 12 Mar 2022
As Russia has become isolated globally, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official was asked if Mosc...
How Putin turns this around - with Congressman Mike Gallagher
Sat, 5 Mar 2022
Is Putin winning or losing? It looks like his war effort is not going according to plan, and that he...
Fog of War - with Fred Kagan
Fri, 25 Feb 2022
Vladimir Putin may be unpredictable, but his direction seems to be clear. That’s the view of our g...
With all eyes on Putin, enter Iran — a conversation in Jerusalem
Sun, 20 Feb 2022
Israel's "Radical" move to the political center — and lessons for the rest of us
Fri, 11 Feb 2022
You can order Micah's books here: Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War:...
Hollywood, China & Cold War 2, with The Wall Street Journal’s Erich Scwartzel
Fri, 4 Feb 2022
On this podcast, we spend a lot of time discussing the rising threat from China and Cold War 2. We’...
Putin-Ukraine Escalation: Lessons from an Obama Pentagon official & a NY Times columnist - with Evelyn Farkas & Bret Stephens
Fri, 28 Jan 2022
Is it too late to deter Russia from invading Ukraine? It certainly seems that way. And while it shou...
Anti-Semitism’s Enablers with Bret Stephens of The New York Times
Fri, 21 Jan 2022
Anti-semitism was tragically back in the news in recent days with the hostage-taking at the Beth Isr...
“Back in the USSR” with The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Russell Mead
Sat, 15 Jan 2022
In these conversations, we’ve talked a lot about tensions on the Russia-Ukraine border. But what w...
How does a war with China start? With Admiral James Stavridis
Fri, 7 Jan 2022
On this podcast series, and in many other discussions and debates in think tanks and in the media, w...
From Baby Boom to Baby Bust - with Nicholas Eberstadt
Fri, 31 Dec 2021
China is poised to pass one of the great demographic inflection points” – that’s according to ...
Revisiting The New Inflation - with Mohamed El-Erian
Thu, 30 Dec 2021
The Covid-19 recession technically ended in April 2020. At two months, it was one of the shortest ec...
Revisiting China’s Great Wall of Steel - with Matt Pottinger
Tue, 28 Dec 2021
This week we are re-posting some of our episodes from 2021 that are most relevant right now. We’ll...
How Omicron Stunned The Scientific Community - With Scott Gottlieb
Fri, 17 Dec 2021
What about Omicron has most surprised the scientific community? What does it tell us about vaccines ...
Russia: In decline or on the march? with Richard Fontaine
Sat, 11 Dec 2021
Russia poses a threat to Ukraine, again. But what about Russian President Putin’s threat to the un...
The American College Crack-Up - with Niall Ferguson
Sat, 4 Dec 2021
In this decade we may finally experience a true crack-up in higher education. There have been compar...
Lessons for the 2020s - With Historian Niall Ferguson
Fri, 26 Nov 2021
The first of our two-part conversation with Naill Ferguson is on applied history’s lessons of the ...
Dan Senor’s New Podcast - Call Me Back
Tue, 23 Nov 2021
Welcome to our new podcast, “Call Me Back”, where we try to zoom out from minute-to-minute news ...
The Political Fallout from Covid19 - with Matthew Continetti
Sat, 6 Nov 2021
The recent electoral outcomes in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City, Buffalo, Minneapolis and other...
Vaccines: A New American Success Story? — with The Wall Street Journal’s Gregory Zuckerman
Sat, 30 Oct 2021
Have we revolutionized vaccine development? What does this mean for our lives and our health well be...
IS THIS THE END OF C-19’s BEGINNING? - with Yale University’s Nicholas Christakis
Fri, 22 Oct 2021
In the middle of the pandemic, Dr. Nicholas Christakis released a sweeping book, called “Apollo’...
The Merits of Merit - with Adrian Wooldridge of The Economist
Fri, 15 Oct 2021
During the pandemic, standardized tests were suspended in an entire range of educational institution...
A New Crime Wave? - With Jason Riley
Sat, 2 Oct 2021
JASON RILEY’S BOOK: “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell”https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/mav...
Presidents and Pandemics - with Tevi Troy
Fri, 17 Sep 2021
Books and essays discussed in this episode: Shall We Wake the President: Two Centuries of Disaster ...
A Rosh Hashanah Special: Business Principles from the Book of Genesis
Thu, 9 Sep 2021
On this podcast, we’ve talked to a lot of policy-makers, pundits, professionals and practitioners ...
A Post-Delta World — with Dr. Sid Mukherjee
Fri, 3 Sep 2021
To find the published pieces discussed in this episode: “What the Coronavirus Crisis Reveals Abou...
Delta Politics - with Mike Murphy
Sat, 28 Aug 2021
The Pandemic has either caused a crack-up in our politics or accelerated the crack-up that was well ...
Afghanistan & The New Geopolitics - With Fred Kagan
Fri, 20 Aug 2021
A few websites referenced in this episode:AEI's Critical Threats Project: https://www.aei.org/profil...
China’s Great Wall of Steel? - with Matt Pottinger
Fri, 13 Aug 2021
China’s borders have been sealed for well over a year now. And those borders will be closed for th...
The New Inflation - with Mohamed El-Erian
Fri, 30 Jul 2021
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Delta... This is New York!
Fri, 23 Jul 2021
This was supposed to be the summer that we returned to normal, here in New York City and in every ma...
Unexpected Presidential Advisors - with Gary Ginsberg
Fri, 16 Jul 2021
Who do presidents, prime ministers and business leaders listen to in the midst of managing a crisis?...
Social Decay and The Pandemic - with Yuval Levin
Fri, 9 Jul 2021
Yuval currently wears three hats:At the American Enterprise Institute think tank, he’s the Directo...
Blackstone’s Jonathan Pollack on Real-Estate Post Corona
Fri, 11 Jun 2021
Many have been surprised that areas of the real estate market are booming, Post Corona. So what do w...
Naftali Bennett - Who Are You?
Fri, 4 Jun 2021
We thank the 92nd Street Y for hosting us then, and for this podcast episode now. You can subscribe ...
Tom Cotton on the Lab Leak Hypothesis of Covid19
Fri, 28 May 2021
One piece that we reference throughout both discussions is by former New York Times science reporter...
Is The Problem In Israel Rooted in 1967 or 1948?
Fri, 21 May 2021
Danny is also a columnist for Bloomberg View and he's the author of more than ten books. Here are th...
"God and the Pandemic"
Fri, 14 May 2021
News just out of the CDC has created fresh opportunities for normal, communal time together, indoors...
Post Corona Has Arrived - And This Is What It Sounds Like
Wed, 5 May 2021
Social links:Amit Aronsohn on InstagramYonatan Sagiv on TwitterYaara Keydar on InstagramDanna Stern ...
Is China Turning Crisis Into Opportunity? With Josh Rogin
Fri, 16 Apr 2021
Josh Rogin is a long-time foreign affairs journalist, currently a columnist for the Global Opinions ...
Will We Ever Go To The Movies Again… And Does That Matter?
Fri, 9 Apr 2021
That phrase - going to the movies - that shared experience in a movie theater full of strangers alre...
Zoom University: Is Covid The Ultimate Higher Education Disruptor?
Fri, 19 Mar 2021
The price of college has been skyrocketing over the past few decades, escalating far higher and fast...
The Covid Presidency with Maggie Haberman
Fri, 12 Mar 2021
Before joining The Times, Maggie was a reporter at Politico, The New York Post and The New York Dail...
Vaccination Nation: Is our Post Corona future unfolding now in Israel?
Fri, 5 Mar 2021
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Will We Do Better Next Time?
Fri, 19 Feb 2021
Jim is the former editor of Popular Mechanics, where he helped reposition that century-old brand to ...
John Dickerson on The Presidency Post Corona
Fri, 12 Feb 2021
In addition to 60 Minutes, John recently published his third book, the New York Times Best-Seller ...
Bret Stephens on Geopolitics Post Corona
Fri, 5 Feb 2021
Bret is a Pulitzer Prize winner and an op ed columnist for the Times, where his column appears Thurs...
When IS Post Corona, anyway? Part 2 - Turning the Corner
Fri, 29 Jan 2021
As we post this podcast, the US has vaccinated about 7.6 percent of our population, The UK is at 1...
Is New York Over? Part 3 - Crime and the City
Fri, 22 Jan 2021
We’ve had a public health shock, followed by an economic shock, followed by a civic and societal s...
When IS Post Corona, anyway? Part 1 - Vaccination Nation
Tue, 12 Jan 2021
As we post this podcast, the US has vaccinated about 2 percent of its population, Canada is at 0.5 p...
How Will History Judge 2020?
Thu, 31 Dec 2020
To call 2021 a historic year is an understatement. But what’s less obvious is how to put the pande...
Is New York Over? Part 2 - Broadway
Fri, 18 Dec 2020
Is New York over? It’s a question that’s hotly debated these days. We will return to this questi...
Is New York Over? Part 1 - The Subway
Fri, 11 Dec 2020
Is New York over? It’s a question that’s widely debated these days. We will return to this quest...
Billy Beane on the future of sports
Thu, 3 Dec 2020
Dan sits down with Billy Beane, who became famous outside the world of sports when Brad Pitt portray...
Adam Grant on the future of work
Thu, 19 Nov 2020
After a macro conversation on the societal effects of shifts in the workforce, Dan sits down with Ad...
Derek Thompson of The Atlantic on the Post-Corona workforce
Thu, 12 Nov 2020
When the global economy came to a halt this spring, tens of millions of American workers found thems...