Walter Russell Mead discusses the Ivy League presidents, Benjamin Netanyahu’s phone call with Vladimir Putin, the crisis of homeownership in America, and why many American Jews prefer “refugee Zionism” to “national Zionism” 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)