The British Royal Family, Western Elections, and the Death of an Editor
In this month’s episode of The 1st Draft, Robert Kaplan and Dominic Green discuss the royal photo scandal, the...
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Malthus, Drones, and the Transformation of War
In this month’s episode of The 1st Draft, Robert Kaplan and Dominic Green discuss how population theory is misunderstood,...
The New Bipolar Conflict and the Fate of Western Elites
In this month’s episode of The 1st Draft, Robert Kaplan and Dominic Green discuss what the war in the...
Ukraine, Israel-Gaza, Populism, and all the Interlinkages
In this month’s episode of the 1st Draft, Robert Kaplan and Dominic Green discuss the “polycrisis” afflicting our world....
“The Loom of Time” in the Middle East
Robert Kaplan and Dominic Green offer historical and philosophical perspectives on the upheavals in the region. The...
Africa, Russia, and Geopolitical Imagination
On this episode of the 1st Draft, Robert Kaplan and Dominic Green discuss the recent coups in Africa, the...
Ukraine, the Wagner Group, and the Difficulty Journalists Have In Interpreting it All
This month, Robert Kaplan and Dominic Green discuss Ukraine, the Wagner Group, and the difficulty journalists have in interpreting...
The New Tragic Age, Henry Kissinger at 100, and the Birth of “Late Antiquity”
Kaplan and Green discuss the current age in which we live and the world of almost 2,000 years...
A Secret Coronation, Malthusian Fears, and a Ukrainian Fork in the Road
This month’s discussion ranges from the part of King Charles’ coronation that the public did not see, to a...
Ukraine, China, and V.S. Naipaul
This month on The 1st Draft, Robert and Dominic cover the anniversaries of the Ukraine and Iraq wars, the...