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Paul A. Rahe

Dr. Rahe is professor of history at Hillsdale College, where he holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage.

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The Spartan Lifestyle

TikTok tells us that the boys are thinking an awful lot about Rome. But we grownups of the Ricochet Podcast want to hear about the Spartans, so we’re joined by Hillsdale College's Paul Rahe to learn about proxy war, ancient and modern. He helps Peter, James and Rob connect the dots between Sparta's success in bleeding the Athenians in Sicily to the machinations of the global superpowers in the 20th Century on to today. Listen in to understand how a foreign policy that fails to take Thucydides into account is doomed. (Be sure to preorder your copy of Dr. Rahe's Sparta's Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta.) Also, catch some good ole fashioned rants about the latest state of emergency on our border; and find out which Monty Python star James got to gab with in London. This week’s opening audio: Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R - NJ02) blasts border policy in Judiciary Committee hearing
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James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
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