Bio
Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College and and global view columnist at The Wall Street Journal.
Featured Work
OCT 10, 2019 • Podcast
The Power of Tribalism, with Amy Chua & Walter Russell Mead
"In our foreign policy, for at least half a century, we have been spectacularly blind to the power of tribal politics," says Amy Chua, author ...
MAY 18, 2017 • Podcast
Crisis of the Liberal Order
What explains the global resurgence of populism and the rise of political actors on the right? And what are the effects on longstanding alliances, international ...
MAY 10, 2017 • Podcast
Shades of Red and Blue: Global Security
For more than half a century, the United States has shouldered a disproportionate share of global security burdens. As China rises and Russia reasserts its ...
OCT 31, 2007 • Podcast
God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
Walter Russell Mead wittily explains how the individualistic faiths of Britain and America lent themselves so well to the creation of the modern economic and ...
MAY 27, 2004 • Podcast
Power, Terror, Peace, and War
"We are creating new and ever more dangerous problems for ourselves simply by doing what it is that we like to do," says Walter Russell ...
DEC 12, 2001 • Transcript
The Secret Strength of American Foreign Policy
Many have accused the United States of being negligent in the area of foreign policy, yet, according to Walter Russell Mead, almost no other country ...