Doing the World a Favor in Iran (w/ Eli Lake)

About this episode

Eli Lake returns to discuss neoconservatism, the war with Iran, and the relevance of Tucker Carlson.

Eli Lake — staff writer at The Free Press, contributing editor at Commentary Magazine, and host of the Breaking History podcast — returns to the podcast to discuss the state of neoconservatism; the war with Iran (and why all the pundits are wrong about); and the enduring mystery (but not-so-enduring importance) of Tucker Carlson. On the agenda: - Neocons, Redux -The war in Iran -The “geopolitics” of Europe -The conversation about the conversation -Tucker Carlson, the modern day Father Coughlin? Mentioned in this episode: * How Israel is helping Iran’s opposition ( The Free Press ) * Eli Lake and Andrew Sullivan debate the Iran War ( Breaking History ) More Eli on Uncertain Things * The Decapitation of Hezbollah * How the World Learned to Love the Butchery of Jews * The Art of Being Offended Get full access to Uncertain Things at uncertain.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Uncertain Things

Guest: Eli Lake

Topics covered

• neoconservatism
• war with Iran
• geopolitics
• Tucker Carlson
• media commentary

Keywords

• neoconservatism
• Iran war
• Tucker Carlson
• geopolitics
• Eli Lake

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Free Press, Commentary Magazine, Breaking History

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