A Conversation With Walter Russell Mead

On Joe Biden's Saudi trip and the danger of woke foreign policy

I was happy to be joined on the podcast yesterday by Walter Russell Mead — his latest book is The Arc of a Covenant, which we only discussed briefly. It’s on the relationship between America and Israel. (It’s a big book, I got it the day before the interview, and listeners know I’m loathe to do interviews where I haven’t read the book.) A brief excerpt …