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The Lawfare Podcast features discussions with experts, policymakers, and opinion leaders at the nexus of national security, law, and policy. On issues from foreign policy, homeland security, intelligence, and cybersecurity to governance and law, we have doubled down on seriousness at a time when others are running away from it. Visit us at www.lawfaremedia.org. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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“Social media platforms are shutting down their APIs. They're making it more difficult for academics to do this sort of work, which I think is really worrisome. I really hope that there's some action in terms of thinking through: if we want to understand what's happening on these platforms, we have to have some mechanism that propels the platforms to do it, because relying on their goodwill every once in a while probably isn't a sufficient strategy.” — Talia Stroud, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Talia Stroud · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I don't think that in any way this is an exoneration of the platforms. We were only able to study things within one electoral context and for a three-month period. … One of the important takeaways is that simple solutions have really complex outcomes, and the solutions probably need to be complex as well. When we say, we'll just burst the filter bubbles by reducing the amount of like-minded content, that has all sorts of implications for what sort of content people see on their feed.” — Talia Stroud, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Talia Stroud · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“China has generated six, almost 7% now of GDP growth out of net exports over the last few years, a huge number for a large economy. And Germany is the mirror image of that. It's lost 4% of GDP in net exports as it got pushed out of China, pushed out of third markets. … So we are late. We're unequivocally late.” — Sander Tordoir, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Sander Tordoir · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Some of this conduct is illegal. It's just not criminal. … I think criminal law is often ill-fitted to address inherently political problems. And we want to be careful not to overextend or misapply criminal laws because of our outrage, our visceral reaction to repugnant political conduct.” — John Keller, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
John Keller · 25 Oct 2026 Listen →
“What a nuclear doctrine is not is an iron-clad tool of statecraft. This is not something like a law. I always say, you know, if Putin decides to use a nuclear weapon, I don't think there's any civil servant running into the room and telling him, oh, look, but our doctrine says this and this, and that's why you can't use it right now.” — Fabian Hoffmann, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Fabian Hoffmann · 24 Oct 2026 Listen →
“One of the greatest things about this national security approach is it's actually a really affordable national security approach. You know, for the price of two F-35s, you can prevent the need for any F-35s by stopping the wars before they start, by attacking the corruption, by deterring.” — Paul Massaro, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Paul Massaro · 18 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Imagine a Bloomberg news or Reuters news digest each day going out, but in place of your spot oil prices and election results and statements from Angela Merkel or something, you just have dozens and dozens of right-wing YouTube channels supporting theories about bioweapons labs in Ukraine. … It is this funhouse mirror version of news media.” — Paul Mozur, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Paul Mozur · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“In the past, we've mostly seen the government taking shares in companies or mandating production of certain items really only in two kinds of settings. One is during wartime, and the other is during a serious financial or other kind of crisis like COVID… What we're seeing today is where it's being used basically in peacetime with no real end in sight.” — Ashley Deeks, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Ashley Deeks · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“JSOC is an industrial level killing machine, but do you want to apply it to every problem? The answer, of course, is no. And people in JSOC know that as much as anybody else.” — Peter Bergen, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Peter Bergen · 6 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's kind of childish to think that a fairly major nuclear-armed power is just going to do what we want them to do.” — Peter Bergen, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Peter Bergen · 6 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I have often joked that planning a summit with the Chinese is like wedding planning, but really, it's like wedding planning with the worst possible in-laws you can imagine. Like they don't like the food, they want to haggle over everything. So it requires a tremendous amount of preparation.” — Jonathan Czin, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Jonathan Czin · 30 Sep 2026 Listen →
“Putin managed to destroy the free independent media not with any kind of new laws. He was using all the best practices and all the most liberal press freedom laws that existed in Russia back 25 years ago. And still, it was possible to eradicate independent news TV channels, independent newspapers, because he was affecting the owners.” — Mikhail Zygar, The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Mikhail Zygar · 27 Sep 2026 Listen →

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The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition is hosted by Benjamin Wittes , Scott R. Anderson , Quinta Jurecic , Alan Rozenshtein , Roger Parloff , Anna Bower , Tyler McBrien , Natalie Orpett , David Priess , Kevin Frazier , Molly Reynolds and Jack Goldsmith .

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