ChinaTalk
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WarTalk: Jack Murphy of Team House on Donahue + SOF
Jun 26, 20261h 9m
Economic Security Megapod!
Jun 24, 20261h 19m
Rare Earths: What is To Be Done?
Jun 22, 202659 min
WarTalk with Ely Ratner on Iran War Peace + the 'BS' US-China Stalemate
Jun 19, 20261h 17m
AI for Science!
Jun 17, 202649 min
Emergency Pod: Claude Fable Fried + What's Going on at BIS?
Jun 15, 20261h 10m
ModelTalk: Claude Fable (Nathan's pissed), is AI actually productive, advice for graduates
Jun 12, 202655 min
Sen. Slotkin on NDAA, AI Nukes, Chinese Cars, and Taiwan
Jun 11, 202631 min
Paul Kennedy on Great Powers, Past and Present
Jun 8, 20261h 18m
WarTalk: The View from AFRICOM with LTG Brennan
Jun 5, 20261h 3m
The Pope has AI Takes
Jun 1, 202650 min
WarTalk: NatSec in Congress + AI Evals for War
May 29, 202648 min
Arizona's Abundance Playbook
May 28, 202659 min
WarTalk: Ukraine's Forward Drone Line with Rob Lee
May 26, 20261h 9m
Doing Big Things in Policy: It's All White Space
May 22, 202656 min
Trump's China Visit: Prestige on the Cheap
May 18, 20261h 7m
The Stalemate Summit: Xi-Trump in the Long Sweep of US-China Relations
May 12, 20261h 19m
WarTalk: Iran War 'Love Tap' Edition feat. Jack Shanahan
May 9, 20261h 20m
Ken Liu on AI, Daoism, and Freedom
May 6, 20261h 18m
WarTalk: Still Very Much Out of Ammo!
Apr 30, 20261h 2m
Quantum 201: US v China Quantum Industrial Base
Apr 27, 20261h 14m
WarTalk: No Ammo for Taiwan, Polymarket, Bye Phelan, Will Driscoll Go The Distance?
Apr 24, 202657 min
Sen. Chris Murphy on Corruption, China and AI
Apr 23, 202625 min
Quantum 101
Apr 20, 20261h 13m
WarTalk: Is Mythos a Cyber Nuke? + The Blockade That Wasn't
Apr 17, 20261h 2m
The Think Tank New Breed (IFP + FAI)
Apr 16, 20261h 8m
Claude Mythos and National Power
Apr 12, 202657 min
WarTalk: Who Won the Iran War? (Second Breakfast Rebranded...)
Apr 10, 20261h 3m
How Ukraine Makes Drones
Apr 7, 20261h 4m
Second Breakfast: F-15, Pete's Purges, CENTCOM Hubris, War of 1812
Apr 3, 20261h 11m
The American Federal Civil Service: A History
Apr 1, 202658 min
Jen Pahlka on an Optimistic Vision for Government Renewal!
Mar 27, 202659 min
Second Breakfast: We Negotiate with Bombs, War by Brainrot
Mar 25, 202653 min
Overfit is now ModelTalk! GPU Smuggling, OpenAI Cooked? + Open Models, AI Writing
Mar 23, 202641 min
Second Breakfast: Taking Kharg Island, Terrorism, Grift
Mar 20, 20261h 18m
The Toymaker vs. the Tariffs
Mar 19, 202633 min
WarTalk: AI, Nukes, Iran and Autonomous War
Mar 16, 20261h 59m
Iran: No Save Point
Mar 13, 20261h 9m
Why it Sucks to Work in AI in China + Open Source with Kevin Xu
Mar 12, 202650 min
Software Abundance for Government With Cognition's Russell Kaplan
Mar 9, 202656 min
Second Breakfast: Iran and the DIB with Fmr SECAF Frank Kendall
Mar 6, 20261h 15m
Autonomous Weapons 101 + Anthropic v DoW
Mar 5, 202640 min
Emergency Pod: Iran + Anthropic
Mar 2, 20261h 19m
Second Breakfast: Anthropic, SecDefs being weird
Feb 27, 20261h 23m
Lawrence Freedman on Strategy and Nuclear War
Feb 25, 20261h 34m
Emergency Pod: SCOTUS Scraps Tariffs!
Feb 20, 202634 min
Second Breakfast: Iran, Munich + European Defense Tech, Anthropic
Feb 20, 20261h 3m
How the US Won Back Chip Manufacturing
Feb 17, 20261h 39m
Chinese Peptides (Reported Podcast Special Edition!)
Feb 13, 202640 min
Rickover’s Playbook: Building Hard Things Inside the State
Feb 13, 20261h 19m