The Scholar's Stage

Aug 08 2021 3 ep. 103

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Interviews with statesmen, soldiers, scientists, journalists, and scholars about the books and papers that have transformed how they see the world.

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“How Xi Jinping’s New Era Should Have Ended U.S. Debate” With Peter Mattis

What kind of world does the Communist Party of China want? How can we know what they are thinking? These questions are the subject of "How Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’ Should Have Ended U.S. Debate on Beijing’s Ambitions," a report by National Intelligence College professor Dan Tobin that was originally published as testimony to Congress. This episode uses Tobin's research as a s

F.A. Hayek’s “Intellectuals and Socialism” with Trevor Burrus

How does a movement win a war of ideas? What are the mechanisms by which politics and culture change over time? These were the questions behind Frederich Hayek's 1949 essay "The Intellectuals and Socialism." Hayek was a believer in free markets and libertarian politics. When he wrote this essay just after the Great Depression and World War II, free marketers like Hayek were an extr

Podcast Episode 1: Fleet Tactics with Lt. Col. Nate Lauterbach

In today’s episode I discuss Captain Wayne Hughes (USN) book Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations with Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Lauterbach. We explore why Marine Corps officers need to think more like sailors. We discuss why many so called “principles of war” and tactical maxims invented by its soldiers do not make sense in the world of the sailor, why naval warfare is inhe