David Ignatius is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning foreign affairs columnist for the Washington Post, where he has covered the Middle East and the CIA. We discussed his newest book, The Paladin: A Spy Novel, which was relea

Episode Five: Kaiser Kuo

Mar 31st, 2020 34m 27s

Kaiser Kuo hosts The Sinica Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China. I sat down with Kaiser to discuss China’s relationship with the liberal international order, the often adversarial American media coverage of Chinese foreign

Episode Four: Karen Chee

Mar 24th, 2020 19m 5s

Karen Chee is a comedian and writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers. In this episode, I sat down with Karen to discuss her path from studying History and Literature at Harvard to working with Seth Meyers. She also reflected on the thrill of wri

Episode Three: Shamus Khan

Mar 17th, 2020 28m 12s

Shamus Khan is a an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University. I sat down with Professor Khan to discuss his book Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School. As all conversations often do, we digressed int

Episode Two: Cameron Koffman

Mar 10th, 2020 31m 35s

Cameron Koffman is a 22-year old candidate running to represent District 73 in the New York State Assembly. If he wins, he would become the youngest New York assemblyman since President Theodore Roosevelt. We discussed his personal upbringing a

Episode One: Reed Alexander

Mar 3rd, 2020 16m 26s

Reed Alexander is an American actor, journalist, and current student at the Columbia Journalism School. We sat down in the studio to talk about his journey from playing Nevel Papperman on Nickelodeon’s iCarly to writing hard-hitting news. We al

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