The inimitable Walter Russell Mead, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, stops by to enjoy what can only be described as an intellectual smorgasbord. Jonah and Walter evaluate the ongoing war in Israel, diving into the land-for-peace fallacy, questions about what constitutes nationhood and patriotism, and how to orient American foreign policy toward a more peaceful future. The duo then pivots to a more theological realm, discussing the apocalypse, how liberalism and Marxism mirror Abrahamic faiths, and the conflation between political conviction and moral intuition.

Show Notes:

—Mead’s Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World

—Mead’s The Arc of the Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People

—How Team Biden can aid peace in Israel

—Jonah’s Soviet special

—“The A(braham) Bomb”

—Immanentize the what??

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