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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 Daily: IHL and Private Tech in Conflict, with Jonathan Horowitz
Eugenia Lostri, Senior Editor at Lawfare, sat down with Jonathan Horowitz, Deputy Head of the Legal Department to the ICRC’s Delegation for the United States…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: How the Norm Against Political Violence Eroded in the Roman Republic, with Catherine Steel
As the U.S. tries to come to grips with a resurgence of political violence in recent years, it's instructive to look at how the norm against political violence…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Keith Whittington on the Law, Politics, and Purpose of the Impeachment Power
Jack Goldsmith sits down with Keith Whittington, David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School, to discuss his new book, “The Impeachment Power: The Law…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: David Frum on Threats to Democracy in the Trump Era
From February 10, 2018: In his recent New York Times bestseller “Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic,” David Frum, senior editor of The…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: "The First Day of the Rest of Our Lives" Edition
From November 12, 2016: This week, the Lawfare Podcast brings you a joint episode of the show together with Rational Security. The usual Rational Security…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Congress After the 2024 Elections
Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic to discuss how Congress may change given the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The New Program to Protect Americans' Bulk Data from Foreign Exploitation, with DOJ's Devin DeBacker
Today, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Lawfare Contributing Editor Brandon Van Grack sat down with Devin DeBacker, the Chief of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily, Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: What Happens Now? (November 7, 2024)
This episode of “Lawfare Live: Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on November 7 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom.Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: What Does a Second Trump Term Look Like?
On Tuesday, November 5, former President Trump won the 2024 presidential election, becoming the second president to win a non-consecutive second term. Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Dangers of Deploying the Military on U.S. Soil
For today’s special episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson held a series of conversations with contributors to a special series…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: Our Fascination with the Presidency with Tim Naftali
It’s Election Day, but we’re not talking about the campaign. Shane Harris welcomes Tim Naftali back to the show to talk about Americans’ fascination with the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Can Chinese Cyber Operations Be Deterred, with Dakota Cary
Dakota Cary, Strategic Advisory Consultant at SentinelOne, joins Lawfare Senior Editor Eugenia Lostri, to discuss his article on U.S. attempts to deter Chinese…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Bioweapons, North Koreans, and Musk, Oh My!
An old Soviet bioweapons lab shows new sign of life—and growth. Thousands of North Korean soldiers are in Russia to fight against Ukraine. And Russian…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Democracy's Morticians: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on 'How Democracies Die'
From May 1, 2018: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of the new book “How Democracies Die,” join Benjamin Wittes for a conversation about the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: National Security and the 2024 Election, Presidential Transitions
This episode of “Lawfare Live: National Security and the 2024 Election,” was recorded on October 29 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: David Clements, the Evangelist of Election Refusal, with Anna Bower and Ben Wittes
Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower and Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sit down with Senior Editor Roger Parloff to discuss David Clements, who has led…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Yo Adrian! Go Vote! Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Alan Rozenshtein, Benjamin Wittes, and Molly Reynolds to talk through the week’s big national security…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: 64 Days: A New Documentary Film About Jan. 6, with Director Nick Quested
Nick Quested, Emmy Award-winning director, discusses with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff his recent film, "64 Days: The Insurrection Playbook," about the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: How CISA Is Working to Protect the Election
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has taken a leading role in coordinating efforts to secure the 2024 election—from ensuring the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and the Cold War, with Mark Pomar
Mark Pomar served as assistant director of the Russian Service at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, director of the USSR Division at the Voice of America…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: David Kris on Data Proxies for Clients of Cloud Service Providers
Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and Senior Editor at Lawfare, sits down with David Kris, founder of Culper…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionOctober Minipod: Is Elon Musk a National Security Threat?
On this month’s minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey was joined by Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson and Alan…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Aram Gavoor on the Biden Administration’s AI National Security Memo
Aram Gavoor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at GW Law, joins Kevin Frazier, Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional Studies Program at the University…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: India’s Democracy Under Modi
From April 10, 2023: On March 23, 2023, an Indian court found Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s principal opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, guilty of defaming the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly Round-up (October 24, 2024)
This episode of “Lawfare Live: “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations” was recorded on October 24 in front of a live audience on Youtube and Zoom.Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Hunter Marston on the South China Sea
Hunter Marston, PhD candidate at the Australian National University and Southeast Asia Associate at 9DashLine, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Socialist Realism at its Finest” Edition
This week, Scott was joined by his Lawfare colleagues Tyler McBrien and Anna Hickey and special guest Georgetown University professor and CSIS Senior Fellow…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Sam Kessler on How North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate U.S. Tech Companies
Eugenia Lostri, Senior Editor at Lawfare, sits down with Sam Kessler, Deputy Managing Editor for Tech and Protocols at CoinDesk, to talk about his recent…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Mark Chinen on International Human Rights Law as a Framework for AI Governance
Mark Chinen, Professor at Seattle University School of Law, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: Constitutional Fragility with Sandy Levinson
Professor Sanford Levinson has written extensively about the fragility of the Constitution. A likely contested election, AI, and ongoing gridlock makes his…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Recent Elections and the State of Democracy in Tunisia
For today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Sarah Yerkes, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: A Trip Around the ‘Hidden Globe’ with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
The journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian begins her new book, “The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World,” in her hometown: Geneva, Switzerland. She writes…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Carol Leonnig on the United States Secret Service and What to Do About It
From July 7, 2022: The United States Secret Service has many important missions, the most public of which is protecting the president of the United States. And…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: National Security and the 2024 Election, Tech Policy
This episode of “Lawfare Live: National Security and the 2024 Election” was recorded on October 15 in front of a live audience on Youtube and Zoom.Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Zelensky’s Victory Plan, with Anastasiia Lapatina and Eric Ciaramella
Following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to the Ukrainian Parliament outlining his victory plan, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The "A Rabbi, the Pope, and an Argentinian Lawyer Walk Into a Bar" Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Anastasiia Lapatina, and Eugenia Lostri to try to make sense of the week’s biggest…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Jonathan Zittrain on Controlling AI Agents
Jonathan Zittrain, Faculty Director of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Making Sense of the Doppelganger Disinformation Operation, with Thomas Rid
In early September, the U.S. Justice Department released a trove of information about the Russian influence campaign known as “Doppelganger”—a Kremlin-backed…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: Freedom of the Seas, with David Bosco
The Earth's oceans differ from its land areas in many ways, including the historically powerful norm of "freedom of the seas." David Priess hosted David Bosco…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: AI and Antitrust Law with David Lawrence
What are the antitrust implications of AI systems? At a recent conference co-hosted by Lawfare and the Georgetown Institute for Law and Technology, Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Philippe Sands on Britain’s Last Colony
From March 8, 2023: A few weeks ago, Human Rights Watch released a report on the forced expulsion of the Chagossian people, whom the United Kingdom deported…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Climate Migration and National Security
From September 14, 2023: It’s been another brutal summer with seemingly constant natural disasters precipitated by climate change. The United States and other…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly Round-up (October 10, 2024)
This episode of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on Oct. 10 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom.Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Lies and Rumors After Hurricanes Helene and Milton
Following the devastation of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina, rumors and conspiracy theories about the disaster quickly began spreading online—some…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “No, the Other Stormy” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Molly Reynolds, Kevin Frazier, and Katherine Pompilio to talk over the week's big national security news…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: A New Exhibition on Visual Investigation with Lisa Luksch, Anjli Parrin, and Brad Samuels
Tyler McBrien, Managing Editor of Lawfare, sat down with Lisa Luksch, a curator at the Architekturmuseum der TUM; Anjli Parrin, Assistant Clinical Professor of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: How the FCC is Tackling National Security with Enforcement Bureau Chief Loyaan Egal
For today’s episode, Loyaan Egal, the Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: Stoicism and the Military with Prof. Nancy Sherman
Stoicism is having a moment.The ancient philosophy--which posits that you can’t control events, but you can control how you respond to them--has lately been…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Jake Effoduh on AI and the Global South
Jake Effoduh, Assistant Professor at Lincoln Alexander School of Law, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Legal Threats to the Jan. 6 Convictions with Kyle Cheney
Kyle Cheney, Senior Legal Affairs Reporter for Politico, discusses his recent Politico article on the legal and political landmines threatening the criminal…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly Round-up (October 3, 2024)
This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on October 3 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom.Lawfare Senior Editor Scott…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Hamas’s Attack on Israel and What Comes Next
From October 11, 2023: This past Saturday, the terrorist group Hamas launched an unprecedented raid from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel that left more…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Gavin Newsom Vetos a Controversial AI Safety Bill
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently vetoed SB 1047, the controversial AI safety bill passed by the California legislature. Lawfare Senior Editor Alan…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Dog Sh*t Daily” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic, and Tyler McBrien to try to make sense of the week’s biggest national…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Key Takeaways from the U.N. General Assembly’s Recent High-Level Meetings with Richard Gowan
For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Richard Gowan, the U.N. Director for the International Crisis…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Hezbollah, Lebanon, Israel, Iran
Israel has hit Hezbollah very hard over the past few days, killing much of its senior leadership and eroding its capabilities. It has also displaced hundreds…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories and Pop Culture, with Mike Rothschild
Conspiracy theories about supposed Jewish control of global finance and politics have been circulating and influencing popular culture for centuries, with the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Robert Mahari on Addictive Intelligence, Digital Attachment Disorders, and Other AI-related Concerns
Robert Mahari, a joint JD-PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionSeptember Minipod: Discussing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment
On this month’s minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey was joined by Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff to discuss whether…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Mayor Adams, the Feds, and a Whole Lot of Foreign Money
New York Mayor Eric Adams is facing indictment in connection with a foreign influence scheme involving Turkey. It’s the latest in a long string of actions by…