The Scholar's Stage
Interviews with statesmen, soldiers, scientists, journalists, and scholars about the books and papers that have transformed how they see the world.
Latest episodes
Aug 8, 2021 • 0sec
“How Xi Jinping’s New Era Should Have Ended U.S. Debate” With Peter Mattis
Guest Peter Mattis, an expert in Chinese political and security affairs, discusses China's goals under Xi Jinping and how Western analysts struggle to understand the Communist Party. They explore China's influence, control strategies, and the impact of platforms like WeChat on American citizens. The conversation also covers Operation Fox Hunt, military modernization, Chinese coercion tactics, and the complexity of China's political speech.
6 snips
Jul 14, 2021 • 0sec
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 extreme minority. Forty years later the situation had flipped: the ideas of Hayek and his fellow free marketers were setting policy across the Western world. "The Intellectuals and Socialism" presents the strategy they followed to bring about this terrific change in the climate of ideas.
Joining me (Tanner Greer) to discuss Hayek's seminal essay is Trevor Burrus. Burrus is a research fellow at the Cato Institute whose research focuses on constitutional law. He is the senior editor of the Cato Supreme Court Review and the co-host of the popular libertarian podcast Free Thoughts.
The full show notes for this episode are available at www.scholars-stage.org.
Jun 5, 2021 • 0sec
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 inherently a process of attrition, why the offense has the stronger hand in naval conflict, and how these tactical dynamics might lead to strategic instability in a competition with China.
