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Daniel Esty is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University. He directs the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and serves on the advisory board of the Center for Business & Environment at Yale. Esty also served as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection from 2011-14. […] Get full access to The New Nationalist at jame...

Tom Peters is acclaimed as a founder of the profession of management consulting. Dubbed “the Red Bull of management thinking,” Peters is a prolific author, inspiring speaker, and social media maven who gives President Trump a run for his money as an effective user of Twitter. In this wide-ranging discussion with host James Strock, Tom […] Get full access to The New Nationalist at jamesstrock.subst...

Host James Strock interviews preeminent American lawyer Michael Traynor on the state of the lawyer-statesman ideal. Michael Traynor is senior counsel at Cobalt LLP in Berkeley California. He served as American Law Institute President from 2000 to 2008, and as Chair of the Council from 2008 to 2011. He is also a recipient of ALI’s […] Get full access to The New Nationalist at jamesstrock.substack.c...

Host James Strock interviews American public intellectual Naomi Wolf about her new book, Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love. They also discuss Wolf’s earlier work, The Tree House: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See. Wolf also shares her views of leadership, intergenerational relations and other topics. Naomi […] Get full access to The New National...

Host James Strock discusses the use of history to comprehend the breakneck pace of international change with historian and national security expert Derek Leebaert. Leebart is the author of an important, well-recieved new book, Grand Improvisation: American Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-57.  The podcast explores historical parallels that can illuminate our current circumstances, and the […...

Host James Strock discusses the role of character in American life with Anne Snyder, author of the captivating new book, The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Supporting Social and Moral Renewal. Snyder links the dramatic increase in “bottom-up” efforts to instil and exhibit character with the hunger for a new national narrative amid […] Get full access to The New Nationalist at jamesst...

Host James Strock discusses the current moment and historical context of conservative political and cultural trends and perspectives with commentator Matt Lewis. Called a “first-rate talent” in The Washington Post and “super-smart” by John Heilemann, Matt Lewis is a center-right critic of American politics and pop culture. As a journalist, Lewis has earned a reputation as an […] Get full access to...

Host James Strock discusses the emergence of “identity politics” with noted political scientist and educator Francis Fukuyama. Dr. Fukuyama is the author of the new book, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment. Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and the Mosbacher […] Get full access to The Ne...

Host James Strock discusses black holes and the future of space exploration with noted astronomer and educator Alex Filippenko. Dr. Filippenko is the Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, and a Miller Senior Fellow in the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science (UC Berkeley). His accomplishments, documented in about 930 […] Get full access to The New Nati...