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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
James Lileks
Peter Robinson
Rob Long
Paul A. Rahe
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I think the odds are better than not Biden will have allowed 10+ million illegal immigrants in his first term. Elections have consequences--both the primary and general!
Trump did not build a wall, but he did get Mexico turn off the flow of migrants. Credit where it is due.
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I guess that might be a surprise to people who don't have access to the Member Feed.
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We’d love it if everyone who listened to the Flagship were members. But alas, that’s not the case.
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Not quite what he promised by as Mock and Daisy would say. "It was a bajillion times better."
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