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Ones and Tooze

Foreign Policy economics columnist Adam Tooze, a history professor and a popular author, is encyclopedic about basically everything: from the COVID shutdown, to climate change, to pasta sauce. On our new podcast, Tooze and FP deputy editor Cameron Abadi will look at two data points each week that explain the world: one drawn from the week’s headlines and the other from just about anywhere else Tooze takes us. Check out Adam Tooze’s column at https://foreignpolicy.com/author/adam-tooze/.

Episodes

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Trouble in the Chinese Military

30 Jan 2026
1h 3m
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The podcast examines China's military modernization and a recent high-profile purge within the People's Liberation Army (PLA). It suggests that Xi Jinping's push for a world-class military by 2027 is running into resistance from military professionals favoring focused, technically advanced forces over broad expansion. ...

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Seventy Minutes at Davos

23 Jan 2026
46m
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The podcast analyzes the atmosphere and implications of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, focusing on the challenges posed by the Trump administration to transatlantic relations and the ideology of liberal globalism. Adam Tooze, present at Davos, describes the event as tense, highlighting the European upr...

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Protests in Iran

16 Jan 2026
56m
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The Venezuela Conundrum

09 Jan 2026
49m
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Heterodox Economists: Joseph Stalin

02 Jan 2026
56m
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Heterodox Economists: Leon Trotsky

26 Dec 2025
42m
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Funding the War in Ukraine

19 Dec 2025
35m
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Heterodox Economists: Rosa Luxemburg

18 Dec 2025
33m
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Rosa Luxemburg’s revolutionary politics emerged from her rejection of nationalist frameworks in favor of internationalist class struggle, a stance rooted in her experience as a Jewish woman in the Russian-occupied Kingdom of Poland. Unlike Lenin, who viewed imperialism as a late-stage capitalist phenomenon, Luxemburg a...

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China's Trade Surplus

12 Dec 2025
38m
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Heterodox Economists: Vladimir Lenin

05 Dec 2025
42m
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In this episode of "Ones and Tooze," Cameron Abadi and Adam Tooze begin a miniseries on the economic thinkers of the Soviet Union, starting with Vladimir Lenin. They discuss Lenin's biography and how it shaped his thinking, particularly his engagement with Russian revolutionary traditions and his departure from orthodo...

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Russia and Ukraine

21 Nov 2025
46m
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The Economics of Podcasts

14 Nov 2025
49m
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Venezuela

07 Nov 2025
42m
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China Trade and the Louvre Heist

31 Oct 2025
49m
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Nobel Prize for Economics

24 Oct 2025
40m
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The Frankfurt Book Fair

17 Oct 2025
32m
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A Conversation with Michael Sandel

14 Oct 2025
52m
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The U.S. Government Shutdown

10 Oct 2025
32m
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Introducing The Catch

07 Oct 2025
24m
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The Trump Plan for Gaza

03 Oct 2025
49m
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