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What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead Tablet Studios
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Walter Russell Mead, a historian, pundit, and popular author, is encyclopedic about politics, culture, and history. On What Really Matters, Mead and Tablet deputy editor Jeremy Stern help you understand the news, decide what news matters and what doesn’t, and enjoy following the story of America and the world more than you do now.
Check out Walter Russell Mead’s Tablet column at https://www.tabletmag.com/columns/via-meadia.
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The Foreign Policy of Kamala Harris
This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss Chinese and Russian warplanes off the coast of Alaska, Kamala Harris’s snub of Benjamin Netanyahu, whether the artificial intelligence bubble might pop, and what foreign policy would look like under a President Kamala Harris.
Each week on What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead and Jeremy Stern help you understand the news, decide what matters and what doesn’t, and enjoy following the story of America and the world more than you do now. For more, check out tabletmag.com/what-really-matters. You can read Walter Russell Mead’s Tablet column here, and check out more from Tablet here.
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Trump, Vance, and the Shot Heard Round the World
This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss the rise of J.D. Vance, America’s nervous allies in Europe and Asia, Silicon Valley’s break right, and the near-slaying of Donald Trump.
Each week on What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead and Jeremy Stern help you understand the news, decide what matters and what doesn’t, and enjoy following the story of America and the world more than you do now. For more, check out tabletmag.com/what-really-matters. You can read Walter Russell Mead’s Tablet column here, and check out more from Tablet here.
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Putin, Xi, Modi, Kim
This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss unemployment figures, the GOP’s new Trump-era stance on abortion, the rise of the far-left in France, and how China, Russia, India, and North Korea are making new moves on the Indo-Pacific chessboard.
Each week on What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead and Jeremy Stern help you understand the news, decide what matters and what doesn’t, and enjoy following the story of America and the world more than you do now. For more, check out tabletmag.com/what-really-matters. You can read Walter Russell Mead’s Tablet column here, and check out more from Tablet here.
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The Geopolitics of Biden’s Decline
This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision, the collapse of the political center in France, the Haredi military conscription debate in Israel, and the international repercussions of Biden’s disastrous debate.
Each week on What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead and Jeremy Stern help you understand the news, decide what matters and what doesn’t, and enjoy following the story of America and the world more than you do now. For more, check out tabletmag.com/what-really-matters. You can read Walter Russell Mead’s Tablet column here, and check out more from Tablet here.
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About Last Night
This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss the historic presidential debate and two new landmark Supreme Court decisions.
Each week on What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead and Jeremy Stern help you understand the news, decide what matters and what doesn’t, and enjoy following the story of America and the world more than you do now. For more, check out tabletmag.com/what-really-matters. You can read Walter Russell Mead’s Tablet column here, and check out more from Tablet here.
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Biden’s Fearful Foreign Policy
This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss post-election India, Biden’s new immigration orders, China’s wealth exodus, and why Iran has nothing to fear from Washington.
Each week on What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead and Jeremy Stern help you understand the news, decide what matters and what doesn’t, and enjoy following the story of America and the world more than you do now. For more, check out tabletmag.com/what-really-matters. You can read Walter Russell Mead’s Tablet column here, and check out more from Tablet here.
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Customer Reviews
Always informative
I look forward every week to listen to this podcast. WRM gives calm, almost soothing observations about the current state of the world (which isn’t soothing to think about). Love the format too.
Commentary
This is a nice commentary on the world from someone who has been around and is used to seeing and commenting on the facets of the day. It gives the commentary some recent (50 years or so) historical perspective and context. I don’t always agree with the selection of the facts that are used or what significance is place on the facts to make his point but it makes a good tool to examine my own opinions. Even if you disagree with the center right leaning I think it is useful and worthwhile for anyone.
Great show, great insight
This is probably the podcast that I look forward to the most. Walter Russell Mead is a brilliant man with a thorough worldview that helps listeners understand the complex situations unfolding around the globe. I had a professor in graduate school who was always sharing wisdom from Mead and I enjoyed it so much that I started to seek it out on my own. Glad I found this podcast.