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October 1, 2010
John Mearsheimer: Why does a smart country...
When Barack Obama delivered his defining “dumb war” denunciation of war against Iraq in October, 2002, he was a state senator standing in at Chicago’s first big anti-war rally for...| More

June 1, 2007
The Plague: Camus’s Fable in Our Time
Thanks to Andrew Kinney, patsyb, and Sutter for suggesting another “literary lessons for Iraq” show. Read The Plague this weekend, and help us milk Camus’s metaphor for our own pestilential...| More

December 12, 2006
The Classroom Lessons of Iraq
Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) In twenty years the Iraq war — like the Napoleonic and Peloponnesian Wars before it — will be taught in classrooms...| More

December 4, 2006
Iraq’s Third Act
Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Everyone is waiting with bated breath for the release of the Baker-Hamilton Commission report this Wednesday, even though much of the...| More

November 10, 2006
A New Israeli – Palestinian Mandate?
Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visits Washington next week, he’ll find a radically different political climate: There’s a new Democratic...| More

April 3, 2006
The Israel Lobby?
Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt recently wrote a piece in the London Review of Books about the “Israel Lobby” that’s been...| More