Counterbalance

Efraim Inbar, the president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, talks to Mike and Marshall about the conflict between Hamas and Israel. Who's winning? Who's losing? Where do we go from here? His answers were bleak yet he remains an optimist.

Read Mike & Tony's article: https://www.hudson.org/research/16906-the-realignment

Princeton graduate student Wang Xiyue sat down with Mike and Marshall to discuss how being held hostage in the notorious Evin prison in Iran changed his worldview. In 2016 the Iranian authorities convicted him, on trumped up charges, of spying, purely in order to use him as a bargaining chip. The experience changed not only his view of Iran but of the Progressives on American campuses who are incapable of acknowledging his experience.

Marshall talks with Nate Sibley, host of the Making a Killing podcast (a project of Hudson's Kleptocracy Initiative), about KI's work investigating and exposing corruption across the globe. Nate goes over the tools kleptocrats use to steal and launder dirty money--including in the United States--and what the U.S. government can do to fight back. Listen and Subscribe to Making a Killing here: https://making-a-killing.simplecast.com/

Mohammed Alyahya, the editor in chief of AlAl Arabiya English, sat down with Mike and Marshall to discuss the impact of the Biden administration's Iran policy on Saudi Arabia and the entire Middle East.

Israel just had its fourth election in two years and is still struggling to form a government. Israeli professor, pundit, and screenwriter Gadi Taub talks with Mike (Marshall was out) about the impasse, and offers his views on the good, the bad, and the ugly of Israeli politics.

Former Secretary of State and former CIA Director Mike Pompeo sat down with Mike and Marshall to discuss the foreign challenges the United States faces, his experiences in the Trump administration, the role that his personal faith plays in foreign policy, China and Iran, and more.

Mike and Marshall talked to Ed Husain, the author of The Islamist, a memoir of his time inside radical Islamism, who long ago rejected extremism and now advises governments and political leaders on Islam and the Middle East. Ed shared his views on the relations between the Islam and the West today, the fate of secularism in the Muslim Middle East, the Abraham Accords and more.

Mike and Marshall speak with recently announced Hudson Institute Senior Fellow, Miles Yu. Dr. Yu illustrates the wide array of threats that the Chinese Communist Party poses to the West, including economic pressures, regional alliance building, and authoritarian policies threatening freedom's around the world. Dr. Yu uses his expertise in academia and government to answer questions like: Are we winning the struggle with the CCP? Can we? What must be done to do so?

Australian public intellectual Clive Hamilton, author of Silent Invasion and Hidden Hand, helps Mike and Marshall understand how China seeks to infiltrate and manipulate democratic societies.