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What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead

What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead

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 Walter Russell Mead, a historian, pundit, and popular author, is encyclopedic about politics, culture, and history. On What Really Matters, Mead and Tablet deputy editor Jeremy Stern help you understand the news, decide what news matters and what doesn’t, and enjoy following the story of America and the world more than you do now. Check out Walter Russell Mead’s Tablet column at https://www.tabletmag.com/columns/via-meadia.2023 Tablet Magazine Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences
Episodes
  • The Trump-Musk Eruption

    The Trump-Musk Eruption
    Jun 6 2025
    This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss the public spat between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the AI threat to white-collar jobs, Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian aircraft, and “Zero Day,” a new 10-part Taiwanese TV drama about a war with China.
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    30 mins
  • The Foreign Policy Consequences of Biden’s Decline and Fall

    The Foreign Policy Consequences of Biden’s Decline and Fall
    May 30 2025
    This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss Elon Musk’s departure from Washington, America’s nonexistent shipbuilding capacity, plans to revoke visas from Chinese students, and the conspicuous absence of Biden’s foreign policy team from the new book on the ‘coverup’ of his condition. Also in this weeks episode, an interview with Tablet editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse, from the podcast How to Be a Jew, about why she decided to start a print magazine. If you want to subscribe to that magazine, click here.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Resistance Fighters of the World Unite

    Resistance Fighters of the World Unite
    May 23 2025
    This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss Trump's ban on foreign students at Harvard, the Supreme Court's decision on the president's authority to fire federal commissioners, the Senate's vote against California's EV mandate, and a report from the Copenhagen Democracy Summit.
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    38 mins
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