Best Scole Podcasts (2024)

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Chatter: UFO Culture, with Sarah Scoles 1:11:11

6h ago1:11:11

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Science journalist Sarah Scoles has written extensively about astronomy and the UFO community, including in her 2021 book They Are Already Here. She joined David Priess to discuss how scientists look at ETs, pop cultural takes on first contact with extraterrestrials, the incredible influence of Carl Sagan's Contact, the Allan Hills meteorite, the e…

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UFO Culture, with Sarah Scoles 1:11:11

28m ago1:11:11

1:11:11

Science journalist Sarah Scoles has written extensively about astronomy and the UFO community, including in her 2021 book They Are Already Here. She joined David Priess to discuss how scientists look at ETs, pop cultural takes on first contact with extraterrestrials, the incredible influence of Carl Sagan's Contact, the Allan Hills meteorite, the e…

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Lawfare Daily: ‘How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter’ with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac 42:13

36m ago42:13

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On April 14, 2022, New York Times technology reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac woke up to a stunning four-word tweet from Elon Musk’s Twitter account: “I made an offer.” Having long covered the technology and social media beat, they read Musk’s terse post as the “unbelievable but inevitable culmination of two storylines we had pursued for a decade…

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Lawfare Daily: Jane Bambauer, Ramya Krishnan, and Alan Rozenshtein on the Constitutionality of the TikTok Bill 41:39

28m ago41:39

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Jane Bambauer, Professor at Levin College of Law; Ramya Krishnan, Senior Staff Attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute and a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School; Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, join Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas Uni…

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Lawfare Daily: Digging Deep on the State of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with Joel Braunold 1:00:29

15m ago1:00:29

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For today’s episode, Lawfare senior editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace, for a deep dive on the current state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in these last few weeks before what could be a pivotal U.S. election. They discussed the state of Prime Minister B…

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Conversations That Matter: The Nevis Sip and Share Panel 1:25:40

3h ago1:25:40

1:25:40

Join host Atoya Burleson for a special episode of insideLINES Podcast with Ladies Playbook, where we partnered with The Nevis Tourism Authority and the Four Seasons Nevis to bring you the Ladies Sip and Share Discussion. Host Atoya Burleson is joined by a dynamic group of 25 local Nevisian women and NFL wives for an engaging conversation covering a…

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Lawfare Daily: A Ukraine War Update with Anastasiia Lapatina and Eric Ciaramella 46:02

26m ago46:02

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It's been a rough couple of weeks in Ukraine, as Russian forces have hit major cities with intense bombardments, killing an unusually large number of people. Moreover, the front in Donetsk continues to erode. On the other hand, Ukrainian forces are still in Kursk, occupying about 500 square miles of Russian territory, in an embarrassing show of for…

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Lawfare Daily: Gharun Lacy Talks State Department Cybersecurity 50:29

43m ago50:29

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Gharun Lacy has an unusual job. He’s the head of cybersecurity at the State Department, responsible for securing computers and their users in every embassy and consulate and responsible for making sure senior diplomats can communicate securely even in the most forbidding overseas environments. In a wide-ranging conversation, he sat down with Lawfar…

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Lawfare Archive: Deterring Russian Cyber Intrusions 46:48

25m ago46:48

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From December 24, 2016: Whatever the President-elect might say on the matter, the question of Russian interference in the presidential election is not going away: calls continue in the Senate for an investigation into the Kremlin's meddling, and the security firm Crowdstrike recently released new information linking one of the two entities responsi…

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Lawfare Daily: National Security and the 2024 Election, Armed Conflict 1:39:00

2d ago1:39:00

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In a live recording on September 10, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes moderated a panel discussion featuring Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Fellow Scott R. Anderson, Co-Founder and Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator Dmitri Alperovitch, American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Kori Schake, and the Center for Middle East Policy D…

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Lawfare Daily: Helen Toner and Zach Arnold on a Common Agenda for AI Doomers and AI Ethicists 37:36

4h ago37:36

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Helen Toner, Director of Strategy and Foundational Research Grants at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), and Zach Arnold, Analytic Lead at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, join Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow …

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Rational Security: The "Let's Understand How We Got Here" Edition 1:19:42

17h ago1:19:42

1:19:42

In the debut episode of RatSec 2.1, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Kevin Frazier, Eugenia Lostri, and Benjamin Wittes to talk over the week’s big national security news, including: “I Have Concepts of a Segment Topic.” On Tuesday, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump faced off in what might end up being the only presidential debate between th…

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Lawfare Daily: The Past, Present, and Future of War Powers with Brian Finucane and Matt Waxman 1:00:25

23h ago1:00:25

1:00:25

Without new congressional authorization for its post-Oct. 7 operations in the Middle East, the Biden administration has sought to legally justify its military activities in the region based on the president’s constitutional authority and the application of existing statutory authorities to operations against new adversaries. These executive branch …

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Lawfare Daily: Nick Ashton-Hart on the UN Cybercrime Convention 51:37

8d ago51:37

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On Aug. 8, the international community concluded its final negotiations at the United Nations over an international cybercrime treaty. The negotiation—a Russian proposal—was intended to harmonize global efforts to combat transnational cybercrime. However, the treaty has come under intense criticism from civil society, human rights advocates, and in…

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Chatter: Ronald Reagan Reassessed, with Max Boot 1:24:31

3d ago1:24:31

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Council on Foreign Relations fellow, Washington Post columnist, and author of military history books Max Boot has just completed a definitive biography of Ronald Reagan, eleven years after starting his research and writing for it. He joined David Priess to talk all about Reagan, including his appeal as a biography subject, his World War II experien…

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Visionaries of Beauty | The Dynamic Duo Behind WYOS 46:21

3d ago46:21

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Join Host Atoya Burleson as she sits down with the visionaries Wendy Charland and Jamie Glassman, the founders of WYOS. With 35 years of combined experience in the beauty industry, Wendy and Jamie share their journey from leading major consumer brands to building their own successful venture, WYOS. In this episode, they delve into the power of grea…

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Ronald Reagan Reassessed, with Max Boot 1:24:31

3d ago1:24:31

1:24:31

Council on Foreign Relations fellow, Washington Post columnist, and author of military history books Max Boot has just completed a definitive biography of Ronald Reagan, eleven years after starting his research and writing for it. He joined David Priess to talk all about Reagan, including his appeal as a biography subject, his World War II experien…

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Lawfare Daily: The Biden Administration’s Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with Former DAS Andrew Miller 1:16:47

3d ago1:16:47

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For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Andrew Miller, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress who was, until recently, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs. They discussed how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fit into the Biden administration’s br…

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Lawfare Daily: Securing Open Source Software, with John Speed Meyers and Paul Gibert 47:48

4d ago47:48

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Lawfare Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri sits down with John Speed Meyers, head of Chainguard Labs, and Paul Gibert, a research scientist at Chainguard Labs to talk about the distinct challenges of securing open source software (OSS). They discuss what sorts of harms OSS compromises can lead to, how Log4J opened a political window…

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Lawfare Archive: Foreign Interference... It's Happening 43:06

5d ago43:06

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From October 23, 2020: It's been a wild couple of days of disinformation in the electoral context. Intelligence community officials are warning about Russian and Iranian efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election—and claiming that Iran is responsible for sending threatening emails from fake Proud Boys to Democratic voters. What exactly is …

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Lawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly Round-up (September 5, 2024) 1:29:35

6d ago1:29:35

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This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on September 5 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff Thursday’s hearing in the D.C. case, Judge Chutkan’s scheduling order on the briefing on the immunity issue, Trump’s effo…

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Lawfare Daily: Catching Up on the State of Platform Governance: Zuckerberg, Durov, and Musk 49:20

7d ago49:20

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It’s been a busy week in the world of social media and technology platforms. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent an odd letter to the House Judiciary Committee apparently disclaiming some of his company’s past content moderation efforts. Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France on a wide range of charges involving an investigation into the mis…

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Rational Security: The "Third Anniversary Hot Take Takedown: Comeuppance" Edition 1:10:56

8d ago1:10:56

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This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott celebrated the third anniversary of Rational Security 2.0 with their Lawfare colleagues Molly Reynolds, Natalie Orpett, and Tyler McBrien, who sat in brutal judgment as the three co-hosts pitched them their hottest takes yet, including: Are concerns about judicial ethics overblown? Do ethics require that we open t…

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Lawfare Daily: In Search of a Harris Doctrine with Michael Hirsh 38:01

14d ago38:01

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As Robbie Gramer and Amy Mackinnon wrote in Foreign Policy, “If you want to learn more about the U.S. Democratic Party’s foreign-policy vision as the Democratic National Convention (DNC) gets underway this week, you have two options: a webpage that apparently hasn’t been updated in three years or a massive PDF document that is still written as if P…

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Lawfare Daily: Duncan McLaren on the Opportunity Costs of Geoengineering 40:26

15d ago40:26

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Duncan McLaren, Climate Intervention Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at UCLA, joins Kevin Frazier, a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to discuss geoengineering in light of a recent New York Times article detailing prior efforts to conduct climate interventions, namely the SCoPEx project. This conversation explores the history of geoengineering, di…

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Chatter: How Movies and TV Affect Everything, with Walt Hickey 1:31:17

10d ago1:31:17

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Walt Hickey is the Deputy Editor for Data and Analysis at Insider News, and the author of You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything. His book explores the power of entertainment to change our beliefs, how we see ourselves, and how nations gain power.He joined Eugenia Lostri, Lawfare's Fellow in Technology Policy and Law, to talk a…

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