Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  Why do some American children do better in school than others? Social scientists tend to look to family structure, race, class, and gender in an effort to find factors that correlate to better or worse […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  When Donald Trump improbably became president in 2016, few knew what his foreign policy agenda would look like. Having spent little time on such issues during his campaign and having no previous electoral experience, Trump’s […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  In recent years, family policy—what the government can do to strengthen the formation of American families—has come to occupy the minds of many political and cultural figures. That’s a good thing, since the family is […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  The United States of America is the most powerful nation in the world. But it is facing tests of its credibility in multiple theaters of conflict. What do America’s adversaries believe about the capacity and […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  When Jews celebrate the upcoming holiday of Purim, they’ll also study the Book of Esther, named for the young queen whose Jewish identity was unknown to her husband—Persia’s king—and his court. The Book of Esther […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, most of the news coverage has understandably focused on the war’s military, political, and economic dimensions. But there’s another dimension of the war: the religious dimension. How does being […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  This week, Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian airstrikes are now hitting Ukrainian military installations and Russian tanks are now rolling into Ukrainian cities. This invasion is an inflection point in Russian-Western relations, […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  By reading literature, one can experience what it’s like to be, say, a king, or a soldier, or a mother, or a stranger, or a tyrant, or for that matter a slave, not to mention […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  The reestablishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel changed the Jewish people, giving them a place to live in their historic home, if they wanted it. But what about the Jews who remained, […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  The Republic of Azerbaijan scrambles the assumptions of even the most veteran of foreign-policy hands. Sitting at the nexus of Europe and Asia, Azerbaijan is the only nation that borders both Iran and Russia; it […]