Dov Levin, Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Hong Kong, examines the effects of whataboutism - essentially, charges of U.S. hypocrisy - on Americans’ foreign policy views. He explains his survey experiments to test the effectiveness of whatbaoutism on US public opinion and how it might shape policy. He also discuss…

Today our hosts talk about watching the newest hit movie in theaters: Reagan. After you watch the episode, let us know your thoughts on the movie. Timestamps:0:00 intro 3:16 is Reagan irrelevant to younger generations? 5:15 is the Reagan movie too biased? 7:52 Reagan had the best soundbites 10:18 Propaganda vs. reality 15:01 was Reagan a hero to th…

Peter Harris critiques America’s grand strategy of primacy and advocates for a move to restraint that necessarily includes wholesale reforms to domestic as well as foreign policy. He explains why primacy has persisted despite the wisdom of retrenchment and how decades of an expansive foreign policy has shaped American politics, culture, and institu…

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Daniel DePetris and Jennifer Kavanagh of Defense Priorities discuss the latest iteration of the Axis of Evil threat, this time in reference to China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, and argue their relationship is misconstrued and overhyped. They discuss threat inflation, the relationship dynamics among these four powers, including China and Russia’…

In the first episode of Season 4, our host, Grove CityCollege senior Katie Kenlein talks with Dr. Paul Kengor about the movie Reagan, which is based on his book The Crusader. Learn about his experience at the Hollywood premier and how this film has been in the making for almost 20 years!

The Stimson Center’s Senior Fellow Dan Grazier and Research Associate Julia Gledhill analyze U.S. defense spending and explain how the Pentagon is creating “a budgetary time bomb set to explode in the next twenty years.” They discuss several examples of failed over-budget weapons acquisition programs and warn that future such fiascos are now in the…

Theory is elegant, but even the most well-designed and well-intentioned theory of regulation may not survive the acid test of reality. First, Paul and Peter discuss the dilemma faced by federal regulators trying to address Boeing’s safety record and the risk that (in)action might push more passengers to drive instead. Then Peter offers a counterint…

Renanah Joyce, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, and Brian Blankenship, Assistant Professor at the University of Miami, explain how great power competition for foreign military bases in third-party host countries increases the costs of securing access. They discuss the strategy behind US forward basing over time, expansion into Africa i…

Charles Glaser, senior fellow at MIT’s Security Studies program and professor emeritus at George Washington University, discusses the dynamics of the security dilemma and international order. He explores how the security dilemma concept provides insights into America’s rivalry with its two great power rivals, Russia and China, and discusses U.S. po…

Benjamin Friedman, policy director at Defense Priorities, argues that the United States should immediately begin withdrawing military forces from Europe to set the stage for European defense autonomy. He discusses the history of NATO, how it’s strategic purposes have evolved over time, what NATO costs America, defensibility problems with some Easte…

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Emma Ashford, senior fellow at the Stimson Center, discusses recent escalations in the Ukraine war, the costs to the United States and European partners of supporting Kyiv, the effect of the conflict on Russia’s economy, the problems with Biden’s strategy, why it’s unlikely Ukraine can achieve total victory, the timing of ceasefire diplomacy and pe…

Rachel Metz, assistant professor of political science at George Washington University, explains why security assistance, one of the most ubiquitous programs in U.S. foreign policy, so often fails. She argues that bureaucratic interests, organizational processes, and perverse dynamics of civil-military relations discourage conditioning U.S. support …

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Jonathan Kirshner, professor of political science and international studies at Boston College, discusses his most recent book, An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics. Kirshner provides fundamental critiques of structural realism and offensive realism and argues for classical realism’s greater explanatory power and firmer the…

Mark Hannah, senior fellow at the Institute for Global Affairs, the nonprofit housed at the Eurasia Group, and host of the None of the Above podcast, argues that President Biden has not used the leverage US support provides over Israel in its war in Gaza and Ukraine in its war with Russia, prolonging the conflicts instead of imposing real condition…

Katie and Grace conclude the season and Grace says goodbye as she graduates. Keep upwith her here: https://www.instagram.com/conservativegrace?igsh=aXV4bWpjbDYxYmM2&utm_source=qr .Be on the lookout for a new season next fall!

Last week, hundreds of people joined us for our annual conference, "Confronting Antisemitism" on the campus of Grove City College. During the event, our Liberty Mail hosts sat down with conference speakers to discuss the issue further.

David Sterman, senior policy analyst at New America’s Future Security Program, tracks U.S. counter-terrorism airstrikes, particularly with drones. He discusses the history of drone strikes in post-9/11 U.S. counter-terrorism policy from Bush to Biden, the issue of civilian casualties, Biden’s quiet use of drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia, the 200…

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Last week, hundreds of people joined us for our annualconference, "Confronting Antisemitism" on the campus of Grove City College. During the event, our Liberty Mail hosts sat down with conference speakers to discuss the issue further. Be sure to like and subscribe. Enjoy!

Last week, hundreds of people joined us for our annualconference, "Confronting Antisemitism" on the campus of Grove City College. During the event, our Liberty Mail hosts sat down with conference speakers to discuss the issue further. Be sure to like and subscribe. Enjoy!

James Bosworth, founder of Hxagon and columnist at World Politics Review, discusses the various "push factors" throughout Latin America and the Caribbean driving the recent upsurge in migration to the US-Mexico border. He covers US-Mexico relations as well as gang violence, poor governance problems, and other instability in Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, …

Last week, hundreds of people joined us for our annual conference, "Confronting Antisemitism" on the campus of Grove City College. During the event, our Liberty Mail hosts sat down with conference speakers to discuss the issue further.

It’s tractor week at Unintended Consequences with special guest Ike Brannon, who is a Senior Fellow at the Jack Kemp Foundation, about the right to repair movement and the struggle of farmers over whether John Deere can restrict their right to tinker with their own tractors. But first, Peter and Paul talk about government restrictions on manufactur…

Co-hosts Grace Reilly and Katie Kenlein break down ESG:Environmental, Social, Governance and the influence of the UN, World Economic Forum, and Blackrock. View the Language Watch Project mentioned by Gracehere: https://www.restorationofamerica.com/language-watch/ Liberty Mail is a project of Grove City College’s Institute for Faith and Freedom. For…

Jon Hoffman, foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute and adjunct professor at George Mason University, argues for a fundamental reevaluation of the U.S.'s "special relationship" with Israel. He discusses the dire scale of Israel's siege of Gaza and why it qualifies as collective punishment, Israel's lack of clear military objectives in Gaza an…

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Katie Kenlein sits down with Cato Institute scholar Colleen Hroncich to discuss the future of school choice in America. They touch on basic ideas of school choice, defining ESAs and vouchers, and discuss why teachers unions are so afraid that school choice will benefit everyone. Find Colleen Hroncich’s recent article here: Has the Tide Turned on Sc…

Dale Copeland, professor of international relations at the University of Virginia and author of the new book A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy From the Revolution to the Rise of China, talks about his "dynamic realism" theory of great power war and peace, emphasizing the critical causal role of future trade expectations. Copeland d…

Grace reports about her time in Washington, D.C. at CPAC. Enjoy!

Co-hosts Grace Rielly and Katie Kenlein cover the biggest issuesaddressed in last night’s State of the Union speech. From the pro-Palestinian protesters blocking Penn. Ave. and the democrat women wearing all white for abortion rights, to President Biden’s claims that his border security is the toughest we’ve ever had, President Biden’s SOTU was a m…

Stephen Wertheim, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, discusses the lack of strategic focus in the Biden administration's foreign policy and argues that genuine prioritization requires retrenchment. The U.S. should draw down from Europe and the Middle East, he argues, and step away from formal security commitments there…