Church and Culture engages all aspects of our culture with the aim of discussing “cultural apologetics.” Culture is discussed from a Catholic perspective in order to provide opportunities for Catholics to introduce the faith to others through a book, a movie, a TV show, a piece of music, a political issue, or an artist, among other things. The Church speaks through culture, and while there is much in our culture to be avoided, there is much that can witness to the Catholic faith. On each pro ...
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Deal Hudson Host Podcasts
Policy Talk is a public affairs podcast that brings unique analysis and fresh insights to some of the most complex and urgent foreign and domestic policy challenges facing America and our allies today. Each episode features a deeply knowledgeable expert in an engaging, in-depth conversation about a specific public policy topic. Policy Talk seeks to educate and inform listeners who care about key public policy questions so they can better participate in the consequential debates occurring in ...
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Mike Aquilina talks about his new book, Rabbles, Riots, and Ruins: Twelve Ancient Cities and How They Were Evangelized (Ignatius, 2025).By Deal Hudson - Host
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Tim Goeglein discusses his new book, Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream (Fidelis, 2024).By Deal Hudson - Host
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Ep 12: Confronting America’s Obesity Epidemic
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41:13Senior Fellow Hank Cardello, who leads Hudson Institute’s Food Policy Center, discusses how some of America’s largest food companies are taking proactive steps to help Americans make better food choices, and how market forces are reinforcing this responsible corporate behavior.By Hudson Institute
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Dr. Patrick Cronin, Hudson Institute’s new Asia-Pacific Security Chair, joins Policy Talk to analyze the recent Trump/Kim Summit. He details the lessons learned from the summit and shares why President Trump walking away without a deal was a positive outcome. He also provides historical context to the U.S./North Korea relationship and explains how …
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Donald Trump’s 2016 victory was due in part to his focus on the deleterious effects free trade policies have had on some communities, particularly in former manufacturing bastions like Michigan and Pennsylvania. In this episode of Policy Talk, Brian Blake talks with Tom Duesterberg, Hudson’s expert on trade and manufacturing, about how Trump’s trad…
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Ep 9: The Middle East and the Art of Proxy War
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51:55Hudson Senior Fellow Michael Pregent, a war veteran, former intelligence officer and Middle East expert, talks with host Brian Blake about the lessons he has learned during his many years spent in Iraq and the broader Middle East, where nearly every conflict—from Syria to Lebanon to Yemen—is part of a decades-long proxy war being fought by much lar…
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Ep 8: Net Neutrality and the Future of the Internet
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47:04Even amidst the current tumult of American politics, the FCC’s decision to roll back Obama-era Net Neutrality rules in late 2017 evoked an especially rancorous debate, with millions of Americans challenging the repeal as a threat to the internet as we know it. But has the future of the internet really been imperiled by a return to the 2015 pre-Net …
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Manipulating subatomic particles to solve the world’s most complex problems may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but it is a reality that is nearly upon us. While quantum computing offers miraculous promise, it also could threaten the geopolitical order in profound ways by making encryption and other cybersecurity measures obsolete overnigh…
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Ep 6: Nuclear Nonproliferation Cont. - A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Chris Ford
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39:19Continuing our focus on nuclear nonproliferation, Hudson Senior Fellow and national security expert Rebeccah Heinrichs travels to the State Department to interview Christopher Ford, Assistant Secretary of State and head of the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. Dr. Ford leads the U.S. Government’s diplomatic efforts to address t…
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Ep 5: Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security
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52:07Ahead of President Trump’s July 16th meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Senior Fellow Richard Weitz talks with host Brian Blake about the history of nuclear weapons, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and the importance of trilateral cooperation between the United States, Russia, and China in preventing the spread of nucle…
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Senior Fellow Jonas Parello-Plesner discusses his recent trip to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea aboard a French Naval Warship conducting “freedom of navigation” exercises. China has built extensive artificial islands to house military installations in the Spratly Islands and elsewhere in the South China Sea, and now seeks to claim these…
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Hudson Senior Fellow and former member of the National Security Council Michael Doran joins host Brian Blake to discuss the aftermath of the United States pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), including the response from key American allies in Europe.By Hudson Institute
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Former Director of National Drug Control Policy (Drug Czar) and current Hudson COO John Walters joins Brian Blake to discuss the roots of the opioid crisis and what Washington should do to stop the mounting death toll.By Hudson Institute
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Ep 1: An Introduction to Hudson Institute
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35:38In this inaugural episode of Policy Talk, Hudson President and CEO Ken Weinstein talks with host Brian Blake about the history of Hudson Institute, the role of think tanks in the policymaking process, and the importance of voices like Hudson's in Washington.By Hudson Institute
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