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<h6>Podcast Guest</h6>
Karim Sadjadpour is a senior fellow at the <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/people/karim-sadjadpour">Carnegie Endowment for International Peace</a>, where he focuses on Iran and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. He regularly advises senior U.S., European, and Asian officials and has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress as a witness for both Republican and Democratic leadership. He is also an advisor to the <a href="https://www.aspensecurityforum.org/sadjadpour-karim/">Aspen Institute’s Congressional Program</a> on the Middle East and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
A contributing writer at <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/karim-sadjadpour/">The Atlantic,</a> as well as a frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, his work has been recognized by Foreign Affairs as a “Best Essay” in both 2025 (for “<a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/autumn-ayatollahs">The Autumn of the Ayatollahs</a>”) and 2024 (for his analysis of the ideological battle between Saudi Vision 2030 and Iran Vision 1979). In 2023, he received an Emmy Award as a Consulting Producer for the HBO documentary Hostages.

Karim Sadjadpour

Podcast

Who Is Really Running Iran Now? (w/ Karim Sadjadpour)

Will OpenAI Need a Government Bailout? (w/ Sebastian Mallaby)

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<a href="https://ianburuma.wordpress.com/">Ian Buruma</a> is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College and former editor of the <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/ian-buruma/">New York Review of Books</a>. His work largely focuses on the culture of Japan and China, but he has written extensively on European affairs, film, and many other subjects.
Buruma is the author of many books including A Tokyo Romance, The Churchill Complex, The Wages of Guilt, and Year Zero: A History of 1945. Buruma’s journalism can be found in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/opinion/japan-south-korea-history-tensions.html">The New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/world-war-ii-end-1945_b_7215116">The New York Review of Books</a>, <a href="https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article161213827/Grosse-Maenner-fuehren-irgendwann-grosse-Kriege.html?cid=onsite.onsitesearch">The New Yorker</a>, Harpers, The Guardian, the TLS, NRC Handelsblad, as well as other publications all over the world.

Ian Buruma

Japan Is Rearming. Will It Build the Bomb? (w/ Ian Buruma)

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<a href="https://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu/mohamed-el-erian/">Mohamed El-Erian</a> is a renowned economist, chair of the board of the Center for Global Development, and the René M. Kern Practice Professor of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Born in New York, his father was an Egyptian diplomat, and he spent part of his childhood in France while his father was ambassador there. He began his career with 15 years at the International Monetary Fund, where he became a deputy director. From 2012 to 2017 he chaired President Obama&#8217;s Global Development Council. He later served as president of Queens&#8217; College, Cambridge, which he has called the most satisfying job of his career.
He is the author of When Markets Collide, which won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award, and The Only Game in Town. He co-wrote Permacrisis with Gordon Brown and Michael Spence. He writes columns for Bloomberg and the Financial Times, and Foreign Policy named him one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers four years in a row.

Mohamed El-Erian

Mohamed El-Erian: America Is Exporting Its Debt Crisis

Why the US Can’t Win Against Iran: Drones and AI Are Changing War

Is Iran Secretly Building a Bomb at Pickaxe Mountain? A Nuclear Physicist Answers (w/ Ali Vaez)

How Real Is Netflix’s The Diplomat? Ex-MI6 Chief Fact-Checks It (w/ Creator Debora Cahn)

Inside the CIA and MI6 on 9/11 (w/ John McLaughlin, CIA Deputy Director on September 11th)

America Is Repeating its Biggest Mistake Since 9/11 (w/ Peter Bergen, Who Interviewed Bin Laden)

How the US Lost Afghanistan (w/ Jon Lee Anderson, Who Watched the Taliban Rise, Fall, and Return)

Ronen Bergman is a Senior Correspondent for Military and Intelligence Affairs for Yedioth Ahronoth and staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and shares reporting on how Netanyahu moved Trump toward a joint strike.

Ronen Bergman

Mark Mazzetti is a New York Times investigative journalist detailing the high-stakes intelligence mission that preceded Operation Epic Fury.

Mark Mazzetti

MI6 Spymaster: Was Israel Serious About Regime Change in Iran? (Ft. Ronen Bergman & Mark Mazzetti)

Jamison Firestone is a Russia expert, human rights lawyer, and founder of Russia&#8217;s first independent foreign law firm. Jamison Firestone lived through the upheaval of the early 1990s and worked alongside Sergei Magnitsky, who was murdered after exposing a Russian state built to loot itself.