War and Warfare

We share Episode One of The Switchyard Podcast, which will be posted monthly at the PRT website and at various other platforms. The guest is Art Spiegelman, the renowned American cartoonist, writer, and editor.

"Queen Brunhild and Queen Fredegund are restored to center stage.... Puhak presents a vivid picture of how they skillfully preserved their lives, their power, and their families.... She also imagines what it might mean if girls [today] found them featured more prominently in their textbooks. History readers will be enthralled." -- Shelf Awareness

Our guest will be the featured speaker at the commemoration, which happens at 7pm on Thursday the 20th at Temple Israel.

Now in paperback, here is (per a starred review in Booklist) "possibly the most important book of the year.... Perlroth's precise, lucid, and compelling presentation of mind-blowing disclosures about the underground arms race a must-read exposé."

Our guest — an impressively accomplished TU alum — spoke recently on the subject of international cyber-security at the TCFR.

News and notes regarding a memoir by a 7th Cavalry U.S. Army soldier who survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

His article, "The Secret Weapons of Ukraine," appeared in the February 2023 issue of Esquire.

As the world marks the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we speak about this, and about other matters, with James M. Lindsay, Senior VP at the Council on Foreign Relations

"One of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau tells her remarkable story.... A heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive account." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

On this Veterans Day, we revisit our conversation from last May with Phil Klay, the National Book Award-winning author and U.S. Marine Corps vet.