Walter Russell Mead discusses homeschooling, the United States–Japan–South Korea security pact, artificial intelligence’s threat to the nation state, China’s economic woes, The Magic Flute, and Fidel Castro on his podcast What Really Matters.
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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)