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Nicholas Burns is one of the leading U.S. diplomats of our time. For nearly 30 years, he served in the government, in a variety of posts: ambassador to NATO, for example. He had major responsibility for the Arab world, Iran, Russia, etc. Today, he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, which is where Jay sat down with him. They talk over the world: North Korea and South Korea; Iran and its nuclear program; the Israel-Palestine question; Putin’s Kremlin; NATO and defense spending; and more. It’s an hour-long tutorial with one of the best. And, as Jay remarks at the end, free of charge.
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I enjoyed the episode even though I found the ambassadors conversations regarding immigration quite naive and I appreciated Jay pushing back on them.
Agreed. Overall great episode and I enjoyed Ambassador Burns discussion… except for that discourse on immigration. It was Romantic, not Realist, and ignored the problems caused by the real paradigmatic differences between Islamic civilizations and our own.