Ep. 102 — The Tragic Essence of Geopolitics
February 9, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk with Robert D. Kaplan about The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, a moving meditation on recent… READ MORE
February 9, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk with Robert D. Kaplan about The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, a moving meditation on recent… READ MORE
Ying-chen Peng — 2022 was concluded with ominous news from Afghanistan: the Taliban government suspended university education for all female students. It was another move to restrict women’s access to… READ MORE
January 30, 2023
Robert D. Kaplan— Many hope and believe that the murderous autocratic regimes in Russia and Iran must eventually give way to democracy. But it may be a long struggle. I… READ MORE
January 24, 2023
In Roe: The History of a National Obsession, the leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history. In this… READ MORE
January 20, 2023
Bernard-Henri Lévy— Reporting . . . The first thought this word always brings to mind is universel reportage and the disdain in which France’s most exacting… READ MORE
January 19, 2023
Michael Walzer— Throughout political history, transitions from one ruler or group of rulers to another or from one regime to another, have almost always been a brutal, if not murderous,… READ MORE
January 10, 2023
Martin Heidegger’s sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism have long been well known. But the 2014 publication of his “Black Notebooks” reveals a deeper and more radical ideology… READ MORE
November 29, 2022
In Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives, Stephen Roach discusses the misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China. Based on a hard-hitting analysis of… READ MORE
November 23, 2022
Stephen Roach— Leader-to-leader summits have long been portrayed as the crown jewel of international diplomacy. Such was the hope with the November 14 meeting in Bali between U.S. President Joe… READ MORE
November 16, 2022
Thomas Piketty— To love Europe is to want to change it. The French and German governments which have been in power for the past ten years claim to be Europhiles,… READ MORE