Podcasts
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June 15, 2026: Putin’s Magic Wears Off
Russia Decoded On Sunday, a devastating missile strike hit Kyiv’s Pechersk Lavra, one of the most sacred sites in the Orthodox world. The attack points to a Kremlin that is now burning through its own foundational myths, chiefly Russia and Ukraine’s shared Orthodox heritage. Days earlier, news coverage of Russia Day celebrations highlighted a different
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Soft Power, Hard Returns: American Investment in Egypt (w/ James Harmon & Cornelius Queen)
Three Questions In 2011, Congress placed $300 million in the hands of private investors with an unusual mandate: grow Egypt’s economy on behalf of the American people. Fifteen years later, the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund has invested in more than 150 companies, helped create over 75,000 jobs, and grown to an estimated value of more than
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June 8, 2026: Putin Says ‘Nyet’ to Zelensky’s Offer
Russia Decoded At this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Vladimir Putin delivered a resounding “nyet” to Volodymyr Zelensky’s open letter proposing a face-to-face meeting, even as Ukrainian drones struck mere kilometers from the conference. SPIEF 2026 was equal parts economic summit and political theater, with Putin exuding confidence before an eclectic cast of
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What Is the National Interest?
What Is the National Interest? This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1996 report of the Commission on America’s National Interests, a bipartisan effort to answer a deceptively simple question: what does the United States actually need to do in the world? Far from a dry policy artifact, the report was an attempt to
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China and the Iran War (w/ Hani Findakly)
A lot of commentators have speculated on the geopolitics of the Iran War in terms of the strategic calculus of America and China. In the West, many experts have questioned what kind of signal the war sends in terms of America’s resolve around the world and its ability to sustain a wartime footing. In the
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