Are Rumors of an Imminent Russian Attack Warranted? | Yaroslav Trofimov
In Episode 496 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Yaroslav Trofimov, Ukrainian-born chief foreign affairs correspondent for The W...
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20 of 521 episodesBessent's Wager and Why the World is Calling America's Bluff | Henry Farrell
In Episode 495 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with political scientist Henry Farrell, co-author of Underground Empire, about how t...
The West's Forgotten War and the New Russia | Mark Galeotti
In Episode 494 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Mark Galeotti — host of In Moscow's Shadows and one of the most informed and pr...
The Internet Will Die and So Will You | John West
In Episode 493 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with computational journalist and author John West about the surprising impermanence...
The AI Enshittification Bubble | Cory Doctorow
In Episode 492 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with science fiction author, journalist, and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow—w...
How to Win a Trade War | Chad Bown
In Episode 491 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with trade economist Chad Bown—a former chief economist at the U.S. State Department...
SpaceX, Europe's China Problem, and the Populist Backlash | Patrick Boyle
In Episode 490 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Patrick Boyle—founder of the quantitative hedge fund Palomar Capital Management...
How America Built A Durable Dollar Empire | Mary Bridges
In Episode 489 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with historian Mary Bridges, a senior fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator an...
The Strong Do What They Can and Suffer What They Must | Jonathan Kirshner
In Episode 488 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with political scientist Jonathan Kirshner about the origins of the Peloponnesian Wa...
Iran's New Grand Strategy | Vali Nasr
In Episode 487 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Vali Nasr — professor of international affairs and Middle East studies at Johns...
Schrödinger's Strait and the New Energy Order | Daniel Yergin
In Episode 486 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and leading authority on energy and geopolitics D...
After the Fall: Reckoning with the End of History | Ian Shapiro
In Episode 485 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro—author of After the Fall—about how the wid...
AI Governance and the National Security State | Dean W. Ball
In Episode 484 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with AI policy researcher, writer, and incoming Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI,...
Ending the Iran War: a New Balance of Power in the Middle East | Hamidreza Azizi
In Episode 483 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Hamidreza Azizi — expert on Iranian foreign policy and international security,...
Why History Can't Prepare Us for What's Coming | Alap Shah
In Episode 482 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with hedge fund manager Alap Shah, co-author of "The Global Intelligence Crisis," a...
How Demographics Will Break the Bond Market | Manoj Pradhan
In Episode 481 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with economist and Talking Heads Macroeconomics founder Manoj Pradhan about his and...
AI and the Collapse of State Power | Miles Taylor
In Episode 480 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Miles Taylor, former Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security duri...
God, AI, and the Coming Violence | Will Manidis
In Episode 479 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Will Manidis, co-founder of healthcare AI company ScienceIO, 2019 Thiel Fellow,...
How China Is Winning the Iran War | Jon Alterman
In Episode 478 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jon Alterman, the Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy...
US Grand Strategy & the Revenge of Geopolitics | Edward Luce
In Episode 477 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Edward Luce, columnist and US national editor at the Financial Times, about the...