Part 1 of 2 on the Anglo-German Naval Race. We start with a modern theorist, Paul Kennedy, and his thesis that industrial power translates to military power. Then some earlier imperialist theorists we

Back with Stan Cox on the environmental file. Stans written a dispatch on the Farm Bill. How the 5-year Farm Bills used to have consensus but how even that might be breaking, and then we talk about W

Im joined by Dock Currie with another episode on the gift that keeps on giving, the CSIS-leaking China panic in Canadian politics. We talk about the recent walk-back from the most ridiculous allegati

Waqas is back to keep us up to date on the Imran Khan file. The entire Pakistan establishment is united in trying to keep Imran Khan from returning to power in an election through court cases, violent

Sinas back to talk to me about my latest Substack article, Multiculturalism is over in Canada. Its back to Sinophobia. Its about the scandal unfolding in the Canadian media since Fife & Chase bro

First we announce Civ Books, where you can buy some of the best Civilizations Podcast transcripts in hard copy. Then, we reveal two of the most long-standing geopolitical disagreements that Dave and J

Scott Ritter is back after a year as we build a chronology of events of the Russia-Ukraine war so far. What were Russias goals? Did they succeed or fail? What were NATOs goals? Why did Russias init

Talking to Amaresh Mishra, author of the giant book India 1857: War of Civilisations about the immense scale of the Indian revolution against British imperialism that year: the scale of Hindu-Muslim u

I joined Nora and Jon from The Brief to talk about the new Resistance in the West Bank and Israels ongoing spiral out of control.

The Young Ottomans and then the Young Turks make a constitutional revolution in Turkey in 1908. We talk about them, the ideas (science, constitutionalism) that motivated them as well as the ideas that