The Lawfare Podcast

Benjamin Wittes

Booking Overview

An expert interview and analysis podcast focused on national security, law, and public policy, with external guests including senior journalists, academics, authors, policymakers, and subject-matter experts. Credible pitches would include nationally recognized legal and security experts, foreign-policy specialists, cybersecurity researchers, and authors with substantial research or reporting; booking is likely high difficulty because the show regularly features prominent authorities and Lawfare-affiliated experts.

Metrics

Episodes: 3040

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: >100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 29.4k subscribers

Instagram: 1.1k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Benjamin Wittes - Legal journalist, writer, and co-founder and editor-in-chief of Lawfare, known for analysis of national security, surveillance, cybersecurity, and executive power.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Senior academics, national security and legal practitioners, policymakers, investigative journalists, cybersecurity researchers, and authors with authoritative expertise or significant original reporting.
Required Achievements:  
Published books, Senior roles at major news organizations, University research or leadership positions, Original research or reporting on national security, law, or policy

Recent Guest Discussions

Thomas Rid - The Russian Doppelganger Disinformation Operation, Influence Campaigns, Hacked Operational Documents, And Western Coverage Of Active Measures.

Jonathan Swan - The Trump Presidency, Executive Power, Habeas Corpus, The Insurrection Act, Presidential Immunity, National Security Personnel, And The Book Regime Change.

Maggie Haberman - The Trump Presidency, Executive Power, Habeas Corpus, The Insurrection Act, Presidential Immunity, National Security Personnel, And The Book Regime Change.

Recent Topics

National Security, Law, Cybersecurity, Foreign Policy, Intelligence

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Lawfare Podcast
:

Lawfare Daily: Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan, and the Short War Illusion

August 04, 2026

Some countries are susceptible to believing that with the right military strategy, they can accomplish their goals with a quick war. It's called the "Short War Illusion," and as the term suggests, it rarely works out as planned. That includes the two major conflicts currently underway in Ukraine and Iran. And it could include a potential conflict in Taiwan.On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett speaks with Dara Massicot, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment’s Russia & Eura...

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 31

August 03, 2026

In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Georgetown Law Professor Peter Harrell and Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff to discuss legal challenges to President Trump’s new tariffs, recent motions by James Comey in the ‘86 47 seashell’ prosecution, developments in the Reflecting Pool prosecution, a hearing on Anthropic’s summary judgement motion challenging their supply chain risk designation, and more.You can find inform...

Lawfare Archive: Jonathan Zittrain on Controlling AI Agents

August 02, 2026

From October 17, 2024: Jonathan Zittrain, Faculty Director of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to dive into his recent Atlantic article, “We Need to Control AI Agents Now.” The pair discuss what distinguishes AI agents from current generative AI tools and explore the sources of Jonathan’s concerns. They also talk about potential ways of realizing the control desired by Zit...

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