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RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash
Each week J. Peder Zane, Editor of RealClearInvestigations, and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney discuss the week’s best investigative reporting and speak with journalists about cracking challenging stories. Whether it’s culture, politics, or the markets, RealClearIInvestigations should be your sour...
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Crossing the Political Divide with Robert P. George | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #122
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, J. Peder Zane and James Varney speak with Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Juri...
Fascism On the March? with Joel Kotkin | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #121
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, J. Peder Zane and James Varney speak with Joel Kotkin about his recent article for RCI...
Antisemitism and Sharia Law in America with Andrew Bostom | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #120
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with author Andrew...
The News Business Meltdown with Patrick Steel | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #119
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Patrick Steel,...
Stopping Dogs From Becoming Lab Rats with Leighton Woodhouse | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #118
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Leighton Woodh...
Progressivism’s Russian Playbook with Gary Saul Morson | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #117
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Gary Saul Mors...
The COVID Cover-Up with Paul D. Thacker | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #116
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Paul D. Thacke...
California Dream Turns Nightmare with Susan Crabtree | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #115
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with RealClearPolit...
Al Gore and the Politicization of Science | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #114
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Roger Pielke J...
Chinese Communism’s Monstrous Mindset with Jan Jekielek | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #113
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Jan Jekielek,...
Citizen Sleuths Track Government Fraud with Walter Curt | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #112
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Walter Curt –...
Mass Censorship, Surveillance & Propaganda with Jacob Siegel | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #111
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Jacob Siegel a...
Me Too Too Far? with Nancy Rommelmann | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #110
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Nancy Rommelma...
My Lai to Russiagate: Journalism's March from Skeptic to Mouthpiece | RCI Podcast #109
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney use the new Netflix docum...
Transparency: Hiding Kids' Identities From Parents | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #108
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with RCI contributo...
Waste of the Day | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #107
On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Jeremy Portnoy...
Deporting Censorship: US Targets UK Government Ally | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #106
YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/2YcAFTe3L_A
Articles discussed in this podcast:
Paul D. Thacker for RCI: Deporting Censorship: US Targets UK
Scamming Mom and Dad? with RCI contributor Nancy Rommelman | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #105
YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/W939iZBA-VU
RealClearInvestigations: Caring for Mom Is an Education in Scams and Fraud
https://www.realclearinve...
Epstein Files, Washington Post Cuts, Portland in Crisis, and More| RealClearInvestigations Podcast #104
YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/j5MoleO39Kw
Read the articles discussed in this episode:
Mark Hemingway article for RealClearInvestigations: Mo...
Small Business Administration’s Kelly Loeffler on DEI: RealClearInvestigations Podcast #103
For more, check out: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/01/07/one_fell_swoop_lawsuit_eyes_death_blow_to_racial_preferences_1157201....
Don Lemon Arrested, DOJ Uses FACE Act in Minneapolis, and More: RelClearInvestigations Podcast #102
January 30, 2026—On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney discuss...
Minnesota’s Social Welfare Fraud Story: RealClearInvestigations Podcast #101
On the first episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Ryan Thorpe of t...
Welcome to the new RealClearInvestigations Podcast!
Welcome to the new RealClearInvestigations Podcast on this feed! Each week J. Peder Zane, Editor of RealClearInvestigations, and RCI Senior Reporter J...
Accelerate, Change or Lose: The Replicator Initiative and Transforming the Pentagon
In August of this year, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced the “Replicator Initiative” a new program to field thousands of less cost...
Hamas, Israel, Iran and the Human Tragedy in Gaza with Jonathan Schanzer
On today’s episode we return to an interview with Jonathan Schanzer, Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,...
Measuring the Chinese Navy with Tom Shugart
As China’s military capabilities grow, discussions about the US posture in the Pacific often return to the question how large a force does the US need...
War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan with Miles Lagoze
Note this episode contains explicit language and discussion of self-harm.
On the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash” John Sorensen and RCD contr...
Trust in the Military and the Recruitment Crisis with Peter Feaver
On the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash,” host John Sorensen speaks with Dr. Peter Feaver, a long-time researcher of civil-military affairs about hi...
Mike Erwin on Leadership and Service
John Waters speaks with entrepreneur, Army veteran, and author Mike Erwin about applying lessons from the military to positive leadership off the batt...
The GOP Debate and China with Rep Mike Gallagher
As Republican candidates prepare for the first debate, does the GOP have a China strategy? In a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal, Rep. Mike Ga...
Taiwan, Drones, AI, and the Future of Warfare with Mick Ryan
The war in Ukraine has rapidly reshaped how strategists think about the modern battlefield, especially the use of drones, cyber, social media, and the...
CNNs Jake Tapper "All the Demons Are Here", Covering Afghanistan, and the War in Ukraine
On today’s “Hot Wash,” CNN’s Jake Tapper talks about his new fiction thriller “All the Demons Are Here” about an AWOL US Marine back from the Vietnam...
Rep. Mark Green on Securing the Border, BRICS, NATO, and the Recruitment Crisis in the Military
Welcome to the first episode of BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front, presented by Real Clear Defense, in which we ask a member of Congress 7 questions that cut...
Oppenheimer: The Man Behind the Movie
Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film “Oppenheimer” opens this weekend. For the story behind one of America’s most consequential and controversi...
Why Did Putin Let Prigozhin Go? With Kathryn Stoner
On Friday June 23rd Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, took to Telegram to announce that he would, “march for justic...
FBI Source Goes Missing in Russia: From 9/11 to the War in Ukraine
RealClearDefense contributor John Waters speaks with Wall Street Journal National Security reporter Brett Forrest about his new bestselling book, "Los...
Did the Cold War Really End? 100 Years of Espionage with Calder Walton
Did the Cold War really end? As recently as this week, the New York Times confirmed that in 2020 Russian intelligence attempted to assassinate a defec...
The Women behind the POW/MIA Movement
On today's "Hot Wash," RCD contributor John Waters talks to the authors of a new book, “Unwavering: The Wives Who Fought to Ensure No Man is Left Behi...
The Navy SEAL Fighting in Ukraine: Daniel Swift and the Pull of Combat
On today's "Hot Wash," RCD contributor John Waters talks to the authors of one the site's most popular recent articles, “The Navy SEAL Who Went to Ukr...
Kissinger's Betrayal: How America Lost the Vietnam War
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