Jul 19, 2023
Looking back on Season 2 of The Deep Map, Robert and his co-host Dominique Hoffman reflect on the rapid changes in the Near East even during the lifetime of the podcast. Diving deeper into the invisible factors driving those changes, they discuss the declining ability of the US to influence any of it.
Is the West...
Jun 5, 2023
The role of religion and culture is the most overlooked yet most important dimension of Near Eastern affairs. In this episode, Robert talks with Philos Senior Research fellow and former State Department policy expert Andrew Doran about the way religion and politics manifests in advocacy for Eastern Christians and in...
May 22, 2023
Black Christians in America have three homelands — a national homeland in the US, an ethnic homeland in Africa, and a spiritual homeland in Israel — but the distances and disparities between these places can create confusion. This week, Robert sits down with Krystal Bracy, the Director of Philos Black, to talk...
May 15, 2023
America is facing a crisis of faith; Latin America, meanwhile, is seeing revival. In one of the least reported phenomena of the 21st century, evangelicalism has been sweeping the Spanish-speaking world and transforming its societies from the ground up — and not just its societies. In addition to the social effects of...
May 9, 2023
It is no secret that a liberal messianic approach to US foreign policy has fueled a number of unproductive wars over the years. But could our latest effort to defend Ukraine in the face of a Russian invasion actually be one of those wars?
It's a question many Americans, both Democrat and Republican, are asking. With US...