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Is This War Justified? Eli Lake Debates Iran with Robert Wright
Eli Lake joins Robert Wright on NonZero for a wide-ranging, and at times contentious, conversation on Iran, Israel, and the logic of the current war.
April 16, 2026
Eli Lake
1HR 53M
The Men Who Bankrolled America
As America turns 250, two founding funders deserve a place alongside the statesmen and generals.
April 15, 2026
James Grant
This Week in American History: John Adams’s Rage Bait
By April 1776, North Carolinians were resolved to separate from Great Britain.
April 15, 2026
Jonathan Horn
Our Grandfathers’ Story of Survival
My grandfather survived a Nazi mass execution in Miory, Belarus. His story has shaped the course of my family ever since.
April 14, 2026
Gabrielle Markel
Neal Stephenson on AI, Rome, and How Civilizations Decline
Why the prophetic sci-fi author looks to ancient Rome to understand the future.
April 9, 2026
Shilo Brooks
47M
Why Iran’s Reform Movement Failed
Historian Arash Azizi lived through Iran’s failed reform movement. Now he studies it.
April 9, 2026
Eli Lake
53M
This Week in American History: The Other Manhattan Project
Two hundred fifty years ago this week, George Washington and his Continental Army set off for fortified New York City and prepared to repel a British…
April 8, 2026
Jonathan Horn
Coleman Hughes: What Ibram X. Kendi Doesn’t Admit
In his new book, America's most famous anti-racist calls politicians who support border control ‘neo-Nazis’ and puts scare quotes around ‘crisis’ when…
April 6, 2026
Coleman Hughes
Niall Ferguson: How Great Powers Lose Wars They’re Winning
Nearly 70 years after the Suez Crisis, the United States may have marched into a strikingly similar trap in the Strait of Hormuz.
April 2, 2026
Niall Ferguson
This Week in American History: Don’t Call Them Pirates
Driven by a restless, entrepreneurial spirit, more than a thousand American privateers took to the waves against the British.
April 1, 2026
Jonathan Horn
Eli Lake and Haviv Rettig Gur on Why Iran’s Regime Is Hard to Kill
A deep dive into the ‘resistance’ ideology of the Islamic Republic, and why it embraces sacrificing society to outlast its enemies.
March 31, 2026
Eli Lake
1HR 26M
He Founded Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Now He Wants to Destroy It.
Mohsen Sazegara was on the historic flight with Khomeini, helped establish the Revolutionary Guard, served in the Iranian government—and was later…
March 31, 2026
Rafaela Siewert
1HR 42M
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