Fran Townsend on intelligence, cyber threats, and transparency

Human Intelligence

An Interview with Fran Townsend

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A national security insider on whether our intelligence agencies have learned from their mistakes in Iraq and elsewhere.

Vol 4, No 2 / April 5, 2018
  Victor Sebestyen on Lenin, Russia, and revolution

Red Giant

An Interview with Victor Sebestyen

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The story of how Lenin became Lenin forms a major theme in Sebestyen's essential new biography of the man.

Vol 4, No 2 / April 5, 2018
  Marci Shore on Ukraine and revolution in real time

Blood on the Streets

An Interview with Marci Shore

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The events in Ukraine in the spring of 2014 provided a rare glimpse to the world of a European revolution as it happened.

Vol 4, No 2 / April 5, 2018
Richard Schifter on how to solve the U.N. paradox

New World Order

Richard Schifter on how to solve the U.N. paradox

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A veteran diplomat's ideas on what we can do to change the anti-U.S. culture at the U.N.

Vol 4, No 2 / April 5, 2018
Trump and Morality

How Trump and Tech Are Breaking Morality

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The Trump presidency seems at times like one unending scandal. For this week's podcast, we spoke with Eden Collinsworth, the author of BEHAVING BADLY, to talk about the life -- and death -- of norms.

March 28, 2018
Otto von Bismarck

The Prussians Are Coming!

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Prussian efficiency, right? That’s usually what people invoke when it comes to the popular conceptions of what is undoubtedly Germany’s most significant state.

March 21, 2018