Cheap Talk

By Jeff Kaplow and Marcus Holmes

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Cheap Talk is an every-week-or-so international relations podcast with Jeff Kaplow and Marcus Holmes, professors of government at William & Mary.


Episode Date
They Canceled the Lunch
Aug 29, 2025
The Limits of Diplomacy
Jun 19, 2025
Putting in the Work
May 23, 2025
They're Using it Wrong
May 09, 2025
People Who Know What They’re Talking About
May 05, 2025
Things Were Under Control
Apr 21, 2025
Airlifting iPhones From China
Apr 11, 2025
Fist Bump, American Flag, Fire Emoji
Mar 28, 2025
An Olfactory Device
Mar 23, 2025
When Face-to-Face Diplomacy Attacks
Mar 10, 2025
Gulf of Cheap Talk
Mar 02, 2025
Maybe Fun Is the Wrong Word
Feb 20, 2025
Not Yet on Administrative Leave
Feb 14, 2025
The Empty Shell of Bed Bath & Beyond
Feb 01, 2025
Just a Big Real Estate Deal
Jan 26, 2025
Dishwasher and Microwave Safe
Dec 07, 2024
Live From Williamsburg
Nov 27, 2024
Your Board Game Journey
Nov 20, 2024
We're Doing This Again
Nov 15, 2024
That Guy Knows Democracy
Nov 01, 2024
Go Forth and Be More Cautious
Oct 19, 2024
The Dream World You’re Living In
Oct 11, 2024
Twist the Logic in Knots
Oct 03, 2024
A Time of Intense Difficulty or Anger
Sep 27, 2024
A Big Thing When I Was in High School
Sep 19, 2024
Balloons are Back
Sep 13, 2024
Now it's not a secret, is it?
Sep 02, 2024
A Couple of Non-Sports News Stories
Jul 30, 2024
You’re Experienced and Then You’re Too Old
Jul 13, 2024
Bird Flu Is in All the Milk
Jun 20, 2024
Trust But Verify
Jun 04, 2024
What a Time To Be Alive
May 21, 2024
Sting Operation
May 09, 2024
Can't We Just Enjoy the Moment?
Apr 29, 2024
We Consider This Matter Closed
Apr 18, 2024
Their Own Little Animosities
Apr 12, 2024
Spend Those Escalatory Activities Wisely
Apr 01, 2024
Mostly Golden Retriever Videos
Mar 22, 2024
Armageddon, Not Just A Good Movie Anymore (Rebroadcast)
Mar 12, 2024
The Be-All and End-All of Explaining International Events
Mar 05, 2024
Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
Feb 27, 2024
Everyone Has a Theory
Feb 17, 2024
A Joe Biden Meat Suit
Feb 09, 2024
Like the Friends We Were in Bali
Feb 01, 2024
Exercise in Optimism
Jan 27, 2024
We're Going To Launch Another Missile at You
Jan 21, 2024
The Gloves May Come Off
Jan 12, 2024
When the Bill Comes Due
Dec 15, 2023
Anti-Diplomacy
Dec 09, 2023
He Can't Get His Laptop on the Tray Table
Dec 02, 2023
Giving ChatGPT Our Nuclear Codes
Nov 18, 2023
Pandamonium
Nov 11, 2023
Maybe This Is Something We Should Look Into
Nov 03, 2023
The Most Successful Scholar in Our Immediate Family
Oct 26, 2023
Three- or Four-Day-Old News
Oct 20, 2023
It Was on None of Our Radars
Oct 13, 2023
Overwrought and Probably Just Wrong
Oct 06, 2023
Little Time Capsules
Oct 02, 2023
We're Going To Get That 1.5 Percent
Sep 22, 2023
Summit of the Isolated
Sep 14, 2023
Our Puny Human Brains
Sep 08, 2023
The Guts to Stand Up for the Truth
Jun 08, 2023
Persist In Our Dream State
Apr 28, 2023
Tossing This Information to the Internet
Apr 24, 2023
It's a Slam Dunk! Do It!
Apr 12, 2023
Another Unenforceable International Edict
Apr 01, 2023
A Person With Feelings
Mar 24, 2023
It Comes Down To Paranoia
Mar 09, 2023
Stumbled Into This Podcast Accidentally
Mar 03, 2023
Could the Meeting Have Been an Email?
Feb 24, 2023
Fly Over Our Great Nation
Feb 12, 2023
That’s Got To Leave a Mark
Feb 05, 2023
For Their Knowledge No Cost They Do Spare
Dec 09, 2022
You Gotta Spatchcock It
Nov 20, 2022
A Giant Duffel Bag of Cash
Nov 11, 2022
Armageddon, Not Just a Good Movie Anymore
Oct 17, 2022
Is Nothing Sacred?
Oct 09, 2022
Both Very Clear and Also Extremely Ambiguous
Sep 30, 2022
Victim-Blaming Theory of International Relations
Sep 12, 2022
Putin's Paranoia
Feb 25, 2022
This Weird Corner of History
Dec 06, 2021
Those Are Not Their Actual Faces
Nov 22, 2021
Exploiters of the Earth
Nov 14, 2021
There’s Quite a Bit of Hand-Waving Going On
Nov 09, 2021
The Elites With Too Much Time On Their Hands
Nov 01, 2021
These Independent Fiefdoms
Oct 19, 2021
That Seems Like Kind of a Stupid Thing To Complain About
Oct 11, 2021
The Experiment That We're Running in This Crazy World of Ours
Oct 04, 2021
The Real Victims Are the Gala-Goers
Sep 25, 2021
Maybe Quibbles To Be Had There
Sep 15, 2021
Plucked From Obscurity
Nov 10, 2020
Facebook Is a Criminal Enterprise
Nov 01, 2020
Freedom From the Burden of Explanation
Oct 26, 2020
That's Just Good Business
Oct 19, 2020
There Were Bales of Hay and It Was a Nice Day Out
Oct 11, 2020
We Learned Not a Whole Lot
Oct 05, 2020
Our Expectations Are Too High
Sep 27, 2020
Outside the Bounds of Reasonable Behavior
Sep 20, 2020
Their Own Weird Physics Language
Sep 14, 2020
Not That Anyone Asked
Sep 07, 2020