Max Boot is a historian and foreign-policy analyst and he’s a lifelong conservative. He joins guest host John McCaa to discuss why Reagan’s policies weren’t always right-of-center as his legacy claims, and the lessons we can learn from his presidency decades later.
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Jim Krane, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute, joins us for a primer on why tensions are escalating quickly in the Middle East, what it means for worldwide energy supply and if it could lead to a U.S.-backed war.
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Farhat Popal and Chris Walsh of the George W. Bush Institute join us to make the case that the U.S. should remain in Afghanistan in order to preserve fledgling democratic rights.
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Foreign Affairs magazine editor Gideon Rsoe joins Krys Boyd to talk about how America’s relationships with other countries has changed since the Cold War. He writes about it in his essay, “The Fourth Founding: The United States and the Liberal Order.”
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President of Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass joins us to make the case for globalism and the important role the U.S. plays in keeping the world running smoothly.
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This hour, we’ll explore the body of water that meets our western border – and get to know the cultures who also live near it – with Simon Winchester, author of “Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers.”
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