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Conversations with Bill Kristol features in-depth, thought-provoking discussions with leading figures in American public life.
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Signup to Generate a PitchConversations with Bill Kristol is hosted by Bill Kristol. The show has published 328 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Anne Applebaum on Trump’s Predatory Foreign Policy" (27 October 2026, 56 minutes), "Steve Rosen: New Military Challenges in the Age of AI, Drones, and Cyberattacks" (14 October 2026, 70 minutes), and "David Axelrod on the 2026 Midterms: How Big a Wave?" (18 September 2026, 57 minutes).
Conversations with Bill Kristol publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 66 minutes across 328 episodes.
Booking probability for Conversations with Bill Kristol is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Conversations with Bill Kristol requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Conversations with Bill Kristol's contact route on record: verified email.
Bill Kristol hosts Conversations with Bill Kristol, a news podcast with 328 episodes published.
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Conversations with Bill Kristol
“You have to look at the strange new thing about US foreign policy. It’s not being made by diplomats. It’s not being made just by Marco Rubio. It’s being made by this group of businesspeople connected to Trump.” So...
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"For the first time ever, the United States homeland cannot be taken for granted as a secure rear area against non-nuclear attacks." So argues Steve Rosen, professor emeritus of government at Harvard, in a bracing ...
Conversations with Bill Kristol
We are less than seven weeks away from Election Day, and early voting already has begun in some states. To discuss where things stand and where American politics might go after the midterms, we are joined again by...
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"We're 60 days away from a completely different political environment. And I think people are underestimating how different it's going to be, and how volatile it's going to be without really any moorings for either...
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"Am I worried? A lot. Why? Because they’re not done yet. And it’s not just the president, but the efforts of those around him and on the outside supporting him who have a very huge and fundamental and reshaping...
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What makes Niccolò Machiavelli the founder of modern politics? How did liberal thinkers like Locke, Montesquieu, and the American founders modify Machiavelli’s inventions? How did later thinkers like Kant and Hegel...
Conversations with Bill Kristol
“This election looks like a classic collision between the irresistible force and the immovable object. The irresistible force is the elevated share of Americans who disapprove of Trump’s performance as president, which...
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“China is aiming to enhance its power with respect to the United States in particular, and eventually to emerge as the dominant player in the international system, and it’s working towards that goal…. It is not clear to...
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“The Ukrainians believe Putin’s now being faced with more dilemmas than they are.” So argues the distinguished historian and a leading analyst of the Ukraine War, Phillips O’Brien. Author of the indispensable Phillips’s...
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“This branding binge [Trump] has been on: with everything he’s trying to have put his name on. To build the White House ballroom, the arch in front of Arlington Cemetery. And the war and military adventurism. It’s a way...
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“What is human happiness? What is political excellence? What is speech, and rhetoric? It’s always important to remind ourselves of that. But especially when you have artificial intelligence, and all of these vast...
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“It’s hard for me to see how [the war] ends in a way that enhances our position in the world generally—and, in particular, enhances our position with relation to the country that I still think is our principal strategic...
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“Whatever happens in 2026, I think no one should take any interpretation of that as a precursor to what’s going to happen in 2028.” So argues Doug Sosnik, former political director for Bill Clinton and one of the...
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“The US government wants to arrest, detain, and deport one in every 24 people in the country—4% of the US population. That cannot be done without fundamentally transforming who we are as a people and our relationship to...
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“The Europeans have been in this alliance [NATO] to protect themselves, largely from Russia and other aggressors. And now it has an aggressor within the gates, so to speak. And that’s quite an extraordinary situation.”...
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Where do things stand in American politics as we head into a midterm election year? To discuss these questions we are joined again by Ron Brownstein, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and senior CNN political analyst...
Conversations with Bill Kristol
“We take for granted the degree of peace that we’ve enjoyed over the past eight plus decades. And we think that’s the norm. The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945. Certainly, the...
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Dick Cheney (1941-2025) is widely regarded as one of the most consequential vice presidents in American history. To discus his life and legacy, we are joined by Steve Hayes, CEO and editor of The Dispatch and author of...
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How has the second Trump presidency differed from the first? How did Trump’s experiences during his time out of office and on the campaign trail in 2024—including his trial in New York and the assassination...
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Where do things stand in the United States nine months into the second Trump administration? Where do things stand in Ukraine, and what are the implications of the war for the future of liberal democracy around the...
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legendary political strategist, senior political commentator for CNN, co-host of Hacks on Tap, Feliciano School of Business
former dean of the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, Tired Old Queen At The Movies
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