Extended interviews where national security overlaps with entertainment, tech, culture and more. Hosted by @ShaneHarris, @DavidPriess and rotating Lawfare staff

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After more than three years, the Chatter podcast will end its run with two final episodes, on Dec 24 and Dec 31. And they are bangers. You won’t want to miss them! Thanks for listening—and you can still find all of our previous episodes here: shows.acast.com/chatter
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After more than three years, Chatter is ending its run. @shaneharris and @DavidPriess reflect on the range of topics this podcast has explored—from spy fiction to lessons of history to climate change to the visual and musical arts.
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New on Chatter: @DavidPriess talked to @milouness about her analytic career, the process and pitfalls of analytic coordination, the importance of including more intuition in intelligence analysis, why precognition should be taken seriously, and more. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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New on Chatter: @shaneharris spoke to @1977khv about their mutual love of "The Hunt for Red October," their favorite scenes and characters, and how the story influenced--maybe even created--an entire genre of fiction.
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New on Chatter: @DavidPriess talked to @bctallis about the challenges of German grand strategy since 1945, the origins and evolution of Kraftwerk and its members' effort to reconceptualize German identity, the band's influence globally, U2 and post-Cold War Europe, and more.
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New on Chatter: @DavidPriess spoke to @GoodmanSherri about her duties as the first Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Environmental Security, efforts to clean up the DOD's nuclear facilities, the threat climate change poses to military facilities and more. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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New on Chatter: @rachelshelden joined @DavidPriess to talk about the presidential election of 1876, how the political system found a way to avoid violence, U.S. political culture in the late 19th century, and the importance of Constitutional creativity. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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New on Chatter: @shaneharris spoke to @AshleyRParker and @jdawsey1 about Trump’s victory, some of his initial choices for top national security positions--which are drawing extraordinary controversy--and what we might expect in Trump’s second term. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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New on Chatter: @DavidPriess was joined by Catherine Steel to discuss core political features of the Roman Republic, how political violence flared in ancient Rome, Roman citizens' awareness of changes in the Republic, implications for today, and more. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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New on Chatter: @shaneharris spoke to @TimNaftali about Americans’ fascination with the presidency, the fixation on the presidents’ private lives, and what we get wrong about the nation’s highest office on this Election Day episode. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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New on Chatter: @DavidPriess spoke to Mark Pomar about talk about the origins of U.S. government-funded international broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Voice of America, the role of RL in the August 1991 failed coup against Gorbachev & more. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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New on Chatter: @KevinTFrazier spoke to Sanford Levinson about how his thinking on the need for a wholesale revision of the Constitution has evolved, whether SCOTUS is the most important decision maker, the impact of constitutional amendments, and more. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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New on Chatter: @DavidPriess spoke to David Bosco @multilateralist about the origins of the freedom of the seas concept, undersea cables, the unraveling of the freedom of the seas doctrine in the 20th century, Bosco's book "The Poseidon Project," & more. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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New on Chatter: @shaneharris spoke to @drnancysherman about stoicism, which posits that you can’t control events, but you can control your reaction, why Stoic virtues resonate with “the military mind," and what it says about how to live amid uncertainty. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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New on Chatter: @DavidPriess spoke to @rothschildmd about his book "Jewish Space Lasers," how the expansion of Rothschild commercial interests spurred paranoia about the family's influence, connections between anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories & more. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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New on Chatter: @shaneharris chatted with @HigginbothamA about his new book, “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space,” why he wanted to tell the Challenger story, and the future of human spaceflight. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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New on Chatter: @DavidPriess spoke to @ScolesSarah about how scientists look at extraterrestrials, the influence of Carl Sagan's Contact, the International UFO Congress, UFO investigators, extraterrestrial-visitation belief as a religious movement & more. lawfaremedia.org/article/cha…
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