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Aloha, Namaste.

Welcome to Impolitic with John Homan, a puck and Odyssey joint.

And as the war with Iran hits the eight-week mark, with peace talks stalled, the

straight-uport moods still closed, and Pete Hegseth taking the extraordinary step this week

of firing the Secretary of the

Navy at a time when the United States is engaged in active hostilities abroad. It seemed like the

perfect time to have Tom Nichols back on the show. Tom, of course, is a longtime friend of the

pod and a staff writer at the Atlantic. More to the point, he's a professor emeritus of

national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, where he taught for 25 years, an instructor

at Harvard, former Senate staffer, author of books, including the death of expertise and our own

worst enemy, the assault from within on modern democracy. One of the best, smartest and most

relentlessly sensible experts out there

on matters of foreign policy defense and international security, and a five-time undefeated

Jeopardy Champion, something that he is generally quick to remind anyone who's willing to listen,

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