{"podcast":{"title":"Conversations with Coleman","slug":"conversations-with-coleman-6685318","podcast_index_feed_id":6685318,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/8YOtRPoZ","website_url":"https://www.thefp.com/podcasts","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/49edd922-2f60-11f0-ad0f-8faaf128c737/image/9213d86a9305bac1cf68e4b3607feacc.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"The Free Press","episode_count":246,"summary":"Conversations with Coleman is where deep thinkers and curious minds meet for sharp, surprising, and unfiltered chats. Hosted by Coleman Hughes, writer, thinker, and guy who asks the questions other people dodge - this podcast isn’t about debating. It’s about discovery. Politics, philosophy, race, culture, science: it’s all fair game. If you're done with hot takes and hungry for real-talk, come join the conversation.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T18:18:09.851336+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-coleman-6685318"},"episode":{"title":"Walter Russell Mead on Christian Zionism, the ‘Israel Lobby’ Myth, and the Psychology of Antisemitism","slug":"walter-russell-mead-on-christian-zionism-the-israel-lobby-myth-and-the-psychology-of-antisemitism","published_at":"2026-05-04T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-coleman-6685318/walter-russell-mead-on-christian-zionism-the-israel-lobby-myth-and-the-psychology-of-antisemitism","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-coleman-6685318","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/VOdNgcECFk0maZgOJbmx/traffic.megaphone.fm/CBS1530975180.mp3?updated=1777920744","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/VOdNgcECFk0maZgOJbmx/traffic.megaphone.fm/CBS1530975180.mp3?updated=1777920744","summary":"Why do Americans support Israel? The standard answers—D.C. lobbying, shared democratic values, strategic benefits—all miss something. Walter Russell Mead, one of America's foremost foreign policy scholars, traces the real answer back to 17th-century Calvinist theology, and argues that Christian Zionists were advocating for a Jewish homeland long before most Jews were. Mead joins the show to make the case that the famous Israel Lobby thesis is actually historically incoherent. To explain where antisemitism comes from and why it keeps coming back, he offers a nuanced defense of American global engagement against the America First movement’s more isolationist impulses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Why do Americans support Israel? The standard answers—D.C. lobbying, shared democratic values, strategic benefits—all miss something. Walter Russell Mead,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3749,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/conversations-with-coleman-6685318/episodes/walter-russell-mead-on-christian-zionism-the-israel-lobby-myth-and-the-psychology-of-antisemitism/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-coleman-6685318/walter-russell-mead-on-christian-zionism-the-israel-lobby-myth-and-the-psychology-of-antisemitism.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}