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The Islamabad Memorandum
Jun 24, 2026
Unknown duration
The Pro-Life Movement Amidst Conservative Realignment with Matthew Lee Anderson
Jun 10, 2026
1h 05m 29s
Isolationism and Religion in American Conservatism with Stephen Mansfield
May 27, 2026
31m 45s
The Kurds in the New Middle East with Stephen Mansfield
May 13, 2026
51m 40s
Iran, Hormuz, and Assessing Global Risk with Ron Dodson
Apr 22, 2026
53m 00s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/24/26 | The Islamabad Memorandum | In this episode, we do what I have often done on the podcast and that is to take an important document, read through, and I offer my thoughts and comments on how to understand it. I talk about chronology and context a lot in my newsletter, and it’s for moments like this that chronology and context become important tools in our analytical tool belts. The chronology of US-Iran relations creates the context in which this diplomacy can take place and sets limits (real and perceived) on what’s possible in terms of ceasefires and peace deals.As I work through this MOU, one of the things that stands out to me is that it suggests both the US and Iran are giving up things to get here, and the US is exercising due caution in agreeing to these terms with Iran. Subscribe to Tim Talks Politics on Substack for the full show notes (30% off for podcast listeners)! | — | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | The Pro-Life Movement Amidst Conservative Realignment with Matthew Lee Anderson✨ | pro-life movementconservative politics+4 | Matthew Lee Anderson | Christian advocates | Great BritainUnited States | pro-lifeconservative realignment+5 | — | 1h 05m 29s | |
| 5/27/26 | Isolationism and Religion in American Conservatism with Stephen Mansfield✨ | American conservatismisolationism+5 | Stephen Mansfield | — | IranAmerica+1 | American conservatismisolationism+8 | — | 31m 45s | |
| 5/13/26 | The Kurds in the New Middle East with Stephen Mansfield✨ | KurdsMiddle East+3 | Stephen Mansfield | New York Times | KurdistanAmerica | KurdsMiddle East+3 | — | 51m 40s | |
| 4/22/26 | Iran, Hormuz, and Assessing Global Risk with Ron Dodson✨ | Iranglobal risk+3 | Ron Dodson | American MindTim Talks Politics+1 | IranHormuz+2 | hedge fund managerTrump administration+2 | — | 53m 00s | |
| 4/8/26 | Operation(al) Epic Fury with Matt Van Hook✨ | war in Iranmilitary strategy+3 | Matt Van Hook | US Air Force Central CommandAir Force+1 | IranMiddle East+1 | US Air ForceCENTCOM+2 | — | 53m 01s | |
| 3/25/26 | America and the Ayatollahs (Rebroadcast)✨ | US-Iran relationsOperation Epic Fury+2 | — | Tim Talks Politics newsletterAyatollahs+2 | AmericaUS+1 | chronologycontext+2 | — | 41m 01s | |
| 3/11/26 | The Return of Christian Nationalism? with Mark David Hall✨ | Christian nationalismreligious liberty+2 | Mark David Hall | White HousePRRI+1 | WashingtonAmerica | PRRI surveydata analysis+2 | — | 58m 27s | |
| 2/25/26 | One Year of Trump 2.0 with Scott Waller, Matt Van Hook, Dustin Steeve✨ | Trump administrationBiden administration+3 | Scott WallerMatt Van Hook+1 | the Trump administration | — | politicseconomy+2 | — | 1h 07m 16s | |
| 2/11/26 | The Political Philosophy of the Trump National Security Strategy with Ron Dodson✨ | National Security Strategypolitical philosophy+1 | Ron Dodson | NSSDallas North Capital Partners+1 | GreenlandVenezuela+3 | Trumpinternational relations+2 | — | 1h 06m 42s | |
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| 1/28/26 | The Ethics of Drones and Autonomous Systems with Kerry Chavez✨ | dronesautonomous systems+3 | Kerry Chávez | C2US Air Force Academy+1 | — | military logisticsmedivac+3 | — | 1h 15m 39s | |
| 1/14/26 | Kazakhstan, Central Asia, and the Abraham Accords with Joseph Epstein✨ | KazakhstanCentral Asia+2 | Joseph Epstein | The Kirk Effectsthe Tim Talks Politics Podcast+1 | KazakhstanCentral Asia+3 | politics2026+3 | — | 56m 35s | |
| 12/10/25 | Christmas Interlude✨ | Christmasholiday greetings | — | — | — | Christmas breakMerry Christmas | — | 3m 53s | |
| 12/3/25 |  Culture, Narrative, and Charlie Kirk with Zena Dell Lowe✨ | cultureworldview+2 | Zena Dell Lowe | — | — | moralityultimate reality+1 | — | 1h 19m 34s | |
| 11/26/25 |  Activist or Apologist? Understanding Charlie Kirk's work with John Wilsey | In this episode of The Kirk Effect, Dr. Wilsey and I explore the broader historical and cultural context of Kirk’s work. Dr. Wilsey explains that in many respects, Kirk’s evident Christian faith and rhetoric is not an anomaly in American public life. In fact, it’s something of a throw back to a not so distant past when the intersection of faith and politics in America produced a rich cultural exchange that has generally benefited American culture.Subscribe to Tim Talks Politics on Substack for the full show notes (30% off for podcast listeners)! | — | ||||||
| 11/19/25 |  Inside the Kirk Memorial Service with Rep. David Eastman | In this episode of The Kirk Effect, Representative David Eastman of the Alaska state legislature and I discuss his experience of attending the memorial service for Charlie Kirk. The memorial service lasted for over five hours, was attended by hundreds of thousands, and raised a lot of questions about the interaction of American Christianity with politics.As a Christian who serves in an elected office, Rep. Eastman has some great insight on how to live and work at that intersection of faith and politics, and provides some helpful ways of thinking about how these two core elements of American life interact.Subscribe to Tim Talks Politics on Substack for the full show notes (30% off for podcast listeners)! | — | ||||||
| 11/12/25 |  What Charlie Kirk saw in America's youth with Mark Hopson | What did Charlie Kirk see in America’s youth that drove him on to college campuses to discuss, debate, and advocate for conservative ideas in a largely hostile environment? Kirk wasn’t shy about why he so purposefully engaged young people: They were the future. But this wasn’t necessarily a manipulative political project. For Kirk and many others working with America’s young people, it was a mission of mercy...Subscribe to Tim Talks Politics on Substack for the full show notes (30% off for podcast listeners)! | — | ||||||
| 11/5/25 |  Finding freedom through TPUSA with Isela Becerra | My guest today is Isela Becerra, a longtime TPUSA member, and one of my Political Science students at Biola University. I asked Isela on the podcast to share about her involvement and experience in TPUSA.One of the biggest surprises to me following the Charlie Kirk assassination was to discover the expansive work of Turning Point. In the course of this discussion, an even bigger surprise emerged, which was Isela making me aware of Turning Point’s different organizational units and functions. This critical organizational detail of Kirk’s work has largely been ignored or obfuscated in the public discourse....Subscribe to Tim Talks Politics on Substack for the full show notes (30% off for podcast listeners)! | — | ||||||
| 10/29/25 |  Navigating the Kirk debate from the pulpit with Josh and Jeremy Matlock | Biological twins are about as demographically similar as one can get. So, it was rather surprising to me to find that social media algorithms fed Josh and Jeremy Matlock very different content related to Charlie Kirk. As we discuss in this episode of The Kirk Effect, taking a closer look at Charlie Kirk’s words and work after his assassination required both Josh and Jeremy Matlock to adjust their initial impressions of Kirk. Also in this discussion, we talk about how Josh and Jeremy have observed and navigated the Kirk Effect in their respective congregations. The brothers are both pastors of churches in different states that have very different profiles, which is a good reminder that America is a big country with a diverse population, even among people of the same faith, which has a big impact on how they engage national events at the local level.Subscribe to Tim Talks Politics on Substack for the full show notes (30% off for podcast listeners)! | — | ||||||
| 10/22/25 |  Kirk, courage, and friendship with Stephen Mansfield | In this discussion, Stephen and I explore some of the early evidence of a possible “Charlie Kirk effect” on the growth of Christianity in America and discuss the upsides and downsides of using statistical data to try to understand what’s happening in American Christianity in the wake of Kirk’s death.From the broad social implications of Kirk’s work and assassination, Stephen and I pivot to discussing how a society should remember public figures after they’ve died and what the shape and tone of that discussion says about the relative health of our body politic. We close the conversation on the virtues of courage and friendship and how Charlie Kirk provides an excellent example of those virtues in action.Subscribe to Tim Talks Politics on Substack for the full show notes (30% off for podcast listeners)! | — | ||||||
| 10/15/25 |  Introducing 'The Kirk Effect' a new podcast miniseries | In this episode, I introduce The Kirk Effect, a podcast miniseries exploring the impact of Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA on American faith and politics. In this episode, I frame the main issues I’ll be exploring around a basic thesis: Charlie Kirk’s death and its immediate fallout signaled a major shift in American political culture. Just what that shift means for American faith and politics is what I’ll be trying to understand in conversation with a diverse set of guests over the next several episodes ranging from professional historians to students, pastors to elected officials. Subscribe to Tim Talks Politics on Substack for the full show notes (30% off for podcast listeners)! | — | ||||||
| 10/1/25 | Public Service and Regaining Democratic Credibility on Foreign Policy with Joel Rubin | My guest today is former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Democrat strategist Joel Rubin who publishes The Briefing Book on Substack and is the author of the forthcoming book Making Sense of the World: How Democrats Can Win Again on Foreign Policy.Joel is the definition of a career public servant having spent much of his career serving at every level of government from city council to the Department of State.When I talk about this podcast being about “government, citizenship and America’s place in the world,” Joel’s one of those guys who lives, works, writes, and thinks about all three of those elements of politics and their interactions. In this conversation, we hit all three.Subscribe to Tim Talks Politics on Substack for the full show notes (30% off for podcast listeners)! | — | ||||||
| 9/17/25 | Recapturing a Classical Ideal of Citizenship with Eric Adler | In a polarized age of rapid technological advances that increasingly seem to pull us apart and turn us inward, the need for a robust civics education seems more important than ever, but most of the public discussion descends into hand wringing. My guest today suggests that the framework for a strong civics education and pathway towards virtuous citizenship not only exists, but it’s relatively simple to deploy… if colleges will get on board.Eric Adler is a professor and the Classics Chair at the University of Maryland. Today on the podcast, we discuss Eric’s work writing advocating for a classically-informed retrieval of the humanities in America’s institutions of higher education. Dr. Adler views this project as critical to renewing both civility and civics in the US, and we explore both the historic debates surrounding the development and decline of the humanities in American higher education as well as the future possibilities, educational and civic, or its renewal.Subscribe to Tim Talks Politics on Substack for the full show notes (30% off for podcast listeners)! | — | ||||||
| 9/3/25 | Cyber defense in a world of AI with Byron Tomes | We dive deeper into an ongoing exploration of the implications of new technologies on national security with a barnstorming tour of the cyber domain with cybersecurity expert Byron Tomes.In this episode, Byron and I explore his unique journey into cybersecurity and national security, and the incredibly interesting and varied career he has had along the way.While we do explore the nuts and bolts of the cyber domain and the emerging role of artificial intelligence in that, this is as much a conversation about personal growth and development as it is about the topic itself.This is a particularly useful conversation for students and young professionals who may be intrigued by the topics of cyber defense, AI, and national security, but who may be intimidated by the (false) assumption that they need to be a computer scientist in order to contribute to the field. What Byron’s story, and the stories of the last three guests on the show, demonstrate is that combatting emerging threats in new domains is not just the province of technologists. Those concerned with the public good and a nation’s moral compass also have a role to play.DISCLAIMER: Byron’s views are his own and do not represent the views and policies of his employer, the state of California, or the US Federal Government.Subscribe to Tim Talks Politics on Substack for the full show notes (30% off for podcast listeners)! | — | ||||||
| 8/20/25 | National Security in the Space Domain with Jim Borders | The space domain has long been looked to as the “final frontier,” inspiring by hope and dread depending on what kind of sci-fi you like. And while space in both fiction and nonfiction is a source of deep wonder and interest to people as they contemplate the future, it's very, very, VERY relevant for those individuals and organizations tasked with keeping America safe from adversaries in the present.My guest today spends a lot of his time thinking about the space domain and its interaction with other domains of national security. Jim Borders is a chief intelligence engineer at the MITRE Corporation, one of several Federally Funded R&D Centers (FFRDCs) spread across the country who are tasked with helping the government anticipate and prepare for the future.Subscribe to Tim Talks Politics on Substack for the full show notes (30% off for podcast listeners)! | — | ||||||
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