About this episode

The episode discusses President Trump's options regarding Iran, the Epstein scandal's impact, and the Supreme Court's ruling on tariffs.

As his self-proclaimed 10-day window for dealing with Iran approaches its end, what are President Trump’s options? GoodFellows regulars Niall Ferguson, John Cochrane, and H.R. McMaster weigh the merits of a US military strike versus an interim diplomatic solution. They also probe the Epstein scandal’s impact on the British landscape and the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Trump administration’s use of emergency powers for tariff implementation. Later, in the “lightning round”: why US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was warmly received at the Munich Security Conference; the Pentagon’s desire to sever academic ties with Harvard University; Barack Obama’s suggesting that aliens exist; plus H.R.’s remembrance of film great Robert Duvall, aka Apocalypse Now’s Lt. Col. Bill “I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning” Kilgore. Subscribe to GoodFellows for clarity on today’s biggest social, economic, and geostrategic shifts — only on GoodFellows.

People in this episode

Guests: Niall Ferguson, John Cochrane, H.R. McMaster

Topics covered

• Iran
• US military options
• Epstein scandal
• tariffs
• diplomatic solutions
• geopolitics

Keywords

• Iran
• Trump
• Epstein
• tariffs
• military strike
• diplomacy
• geopolitics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Supreme Court, Pentagon

Places: Munich

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