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The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
The Lawfare Podcast features discussions with experts, policymakers, and opinion leaders at the nexus of national security, law, and policy. On issues from foreign policy, homeland security, intelligence, and cybersecurity to governance and law, we have doubled down on seriousness at a time when others are running away from it. Visit us at www.lawfaremedia.org. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: The World Crisis and International Law
From February 10, 2023: International law has been under significant stress in the last decade as a result of global populism, the rise of China, the war in…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Daniel Holz on X-Risk and the Doomsday Clock
Daniel Holz, professor at the University of Chicago in the Departments of Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Chair of the Science and Security Board of the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Caroline Rose on Syria’s Role in the Captagon Trade
From December 14, 2021: Syria’s decade-long civil war has left the state and economy shells of their former selves. But a new industry is stepping in to fill…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Argentina’s New President: An Anarcho-capitalist in the Pink House
From December 13, 2023: You may have heard of Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president, thanks to some of his eccentricities, like his five cloned dogs or his…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: John Bridgeland on National Service and Civil Defense Amid Geopolitical Uncertainty
John Bridgeland, Executive Chair & CEO of More Perfect & former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council & National Service Czar, joins Kevin…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Old Laws, New Tech: How Traditional Legal Doctrines Tackle AI
At a recent conference co-hosted by Lawfare and the Georgetown Institute for Law and Technology, Fordham law professor Chinny Sharma moderated a conversation…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Eric Schwartz, Refugee Policy, and the Syrian Civil War
From April 9, 2016: This week on the podcast, we welcome Eric Schwartz, the Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: Intelligence Analysis, Intuition, and Precognition, with Carmen Medina
Carmen Medina defies simple description. She spent more than 30 years at the CIA, rising to the leadership team of the Directorate of Intelligence, despite her…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Making Sense of the UFO Hearing with Shane Harris
From July 31, 2023: This past week, the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs held a spirited hearing on an…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Accountability for Abu Ghraib
On today's podcast, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett talks with Michael Posner, a professor of business and human rights at New York University, about…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: A TikTok Ban and the First Amendment
From April 14, 2023: Over the past few years, TikTok has become a uniquely polarizing social media platform. On the one hand, millions of users, especially…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: The Justice Department, Congress and the Press
From June 15, 2021: A spree of stories has emerged over the last week or so that the Justice Department under the prior administration obtained phone and email…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Adam Thierer on the Bipartisan House Task Force on AI’s Report
Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow for the Technology & Innovation team at R Street, joins Kevin Frazier, Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional Studies Program…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Trashed on Trash Mountain” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower and Natalie Orpett and Lawfare Contributing Editor Michel Paradis to talk about the week’s…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Frictionless Government and Foreign Relations, with Ashley Deeks and Kristen Eichensehr
For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Ashley Deeks, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Kristen…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Susan Landau and Alan Rozenshtein Debate End-to-End Encryption (Again!)
In response to the compromise of telecommunication companies by the Chinese hacker group Salt Typhoon, senior officials from the FBI and CISA recommended that…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: The Legacy of “The Hunt for Red October” with Katherine Voyles
Shane Harris makes no secret about his love for the film version of this Cold War submarine thriller, based on the Tom Clancy novel. It’s his favorite movie…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Elle Reeve on "Black Pill" and Alt-Right Internet Culture
CNN correspondent Elle Reeve has spent the last decade reporting on extremism in the United States. Her book, "Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Sam Manning on Benefits Sharing in the Context of AI
Sam Manning, Senior Research Fellow at GovAI, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: What's Going on in Syria
From October 19, 2019: It's been a horrible week in northeastern Syria. The U.S. abandoned its Kurdish allies after the president had a conversation by phone…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: What is Going On in Syria?
In a live conversation on December 12, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson, Middle East Institute…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Understanding the DC Circuit Court's Decision on TikTok
At a virtual panel conversation co-hosted by Lawfare and NYU's Center for Technology Policy, center Director Scott Brennen moderated a conversation between…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Tornado Kash” Edition
This week, Scott was joined by his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Eugenia Lostri, and Tyler McBrien to break down the week's big national security news…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Pro-Democracy Protests in Georgia
On November 28, Georgia Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced that he was suspending Georgia’s accession process to the European Union. In the weeks…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Ukrainian Lawmaker on Why Ukraine Must Export Its Weapons
Ukraine’s defense industry has grown substantially after Russia’s full-scale invasion. But it also suffered from a huge domestic burden—a ban on arms exports…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: German Grand Strategy and ... Kraftwerk, with Ben Tallis
International politics and security expert Dr. Ben Tallis, who now directs the Berlin-based Democratic Strategy Initiative, joined David Priess to discuss the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: What Does the Inspector General Do?
Jack Goldsmith sits down with Glenn Fine, the former principal deputy Inspector General of the Department of Defense and former Acting IG of the Department of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Kevin Xu on the State of the AI Arms Race Between the U.S. and China
Kevin Xu, founder of Interconnected Capital and author of the Interconnected newsletter, joins Kevin Frazier, Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Ignatius and Goldsmith on the Story of Kash Patel
From May 11, 2021: David Ignatius, a columnist for the Washington Post, recently ran a lengthy column about the machinations of Kash Patel in the executive…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionTrump's Trials and Tribulations, The Final Edition
This episode of “Lawfare Live: “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations” was recorded on December 5 in front of a live audience on Youtube and Zoom.Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Joel Braunold on What Donald Trump's Return Might Mean for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
For today’s podcast, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The "Ukraine in the Membrane" Edition
This week, Scott was joined by his Lawfare colleagues Eric Ciaramella and Anastasiia Lapatina, as well as special guest Kyiv Independent reporter Francis…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Turmoil in South Korea
Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Andrew Yeo, Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program and SK-Korea Foundation Chair of the Center for…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Ukraine’s Past and Future with NATO
Ukraine has been pursuing NATO membership for many years. But what realistic options does it have in light of Russia’s full-scale invasion? Historian and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: The Military, Climate Change, and the Environment, with Sherri Goodman
Sherri Goodman was the first Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security and has worked on issues around climate change, the environment, and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Return of the Syrian Civil War
Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor and Georgetown professor Daniel Byman sits down with Charles Lister, Director of Syria and Countering Terrorism & Extremism…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Claire Meynial on 'La Guerre des Amériques’
Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff speaks with Claire Meynial, U.S. correspondent for the French news weekly Le Point, about her recent book, “La Guerre des…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: #AbolishICE?
From July 10, 2018: #AbolishICE is the hashtag that has proliferated all over Twitter. Anger over the family separation policy of the Trump administration has…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Michael Anton Defends Trump's Foreign Policy
From April 23, 2019: Michael Anton, former Trump administration national security official and a research fellow at Hillsdale College, has published an essay…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: A Ukraine Update with Eric Ciaramella and Anastasiia Lapatina
Despite the Russian launch of a new ballistic missile against Ukraine, the ATACMS not being a game-changer, and a front that is eroding in several key areas…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Andrew Coan on 'Prosecuting the President'
From March 12, 2019: As the nation braces for the forthcoming end of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into President Trump and his associates…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Congressional Power and the Confirmation Process, with Mike Stern and Donald Sherman
Molly Reynolds, Senior Fellow at Brookings and Senior Editor at Lawfare, sits down with Mike Stern, a lawyer specializing in congressional legal issues and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: 1876, Election Security, and National Security, with Rachel Shelden
Rachel Shelden is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Richards Civil War Center at Penn State University. She joined David Priess to talk about…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Deploying the Military at the Southern Border, with Chris Mirasola
Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Chris Mirasola, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center, to discuss the legal…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionNovember Minipod: Should Joe Biden Declassify Information about Trump?
On this month’s minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey was joined by Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: AI Regulation and Free Speech: Navigating the Government’s Tightrope
At a recent conference co-hosted by Lawfare and the Georgetown Institute for Law and Technology, Georgetown law professor Paul Ohm moderated a conversation on…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Brazil’s Search for Accountability After Jan. 8
From July 27, 2023: Last month, Brazil’s highest electoral court found that former President Jair Bolsonaro had abused his political power in the 2022…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Nosmot Gbadamosi on South Africa’s ‘Putin Problem’
From June 30, 2023: On Thursday, South Africa’s Department of International Relations confirmed it would host the 15th BRICS Summit in August. Normally, this…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Ukraine, ATACMS, and Putin’s Nuclear Threats
After more than a year of pleas from Kyiv, the U.S. finally let Ukraine use Western long-range weapons for attacks inside Russia. Lawfare Ukraine Fellow…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Sad Norman Rockwell” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Reynolds and Alan Rozenshtein, and with University of Houston Law Center Assistant Professor of Law…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Haiti's Deteriorating Security Situation, with Robert Fatton
Since the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021, the country has been plagued by gang violence, a destabilized government, and an…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Chris Johnson on Space Law (or Lack Thereof)
Chris Johnson, Director of Legal Affairs and Space Law for Secure World Foundation and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University, joins Kevin…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: The Second Trump Administration with Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey
Donald Trump is going back to the White House and is already busy stocking his future Cabinet. Shane Harris sat down with two of The Washington Post’s best…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Russia and the American Far-right, with Marlene Laruelle
Lawfare Associate Editor Olivia Manes sat down with with Marlene Laruelle, a Research Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at The George…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Energy Security, Data Centers, and AI
Christie Hicks, the Managing Attorney overseeing Earthjustice's Clean Energy Program, and Mandy DeRoche, a Deputy Managing Attorney in Earthjustice's Clean…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Milley, Trump and Civil-Military Relations with Peter Feaver, Kori Schake, and Alexander Vindman
From September 21, 2021: A new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa contains reporting about several controversial actions by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: President-elect Trump's National Security Appointments
Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson, Alan Rozenshtein, and Quinta Jurecic and Executive Director of the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: A New Database of Possible U.S. War Crimes with Madeleine Baran and Parker Yesko
Madeleine Baran and Parker Yesko, investigative reporters with the New Yorker’s In the Dark podcast, join Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to discuss In…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Steven Spielberg Does Not Need a Free Drink" Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower, Eugenia Lostri, and Roger Parloff to discuss the week’s big national security news…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Social Media Data Practices, with the FTC’s Jacqueline Ford and Ronnie Solomon
On this episode, Lawfare Contributing Editor Justin Sherman sits down with Jacqueline Ford and Ronnie Solomon, attorneys in the FTC Division of Privacy &…