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The Right Mind (Dešinysis protas) is the podcast of the Institute of European Right. Every second Friday we talk with scholars, policymakers and practitioners about politics, security, history and ideas. Most episodes are in Lithuanian. Below are the conversations held in English.

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Has America Given Up on Knowledge in Schools? | David Steiner

23 October 2026

Has America Given Up on Knowledge in Schools? | David Steiner

Is the Mediterranean becoming the EU’s new security frontline? | Aristotle Constantinides

How to bridge the 70% weapons gap in Ukraine? | Pavlo Shapoval

How Does Rule of Law Crumble? | András Kádár

Birth Rates: Why Doesn't Money Help? | Gudrun Kugler

6 February 2026

Why Is Trust Disappearing? | Nicolas de Warren

Is Eastern European Immaturity our Strength? | Przemysław Bursztyka

12 December 2025

Is Russia's Empire Doomed? | Donnacha Ó Beacháin

12 December 2025

Is Liberal Democracy Doomed to a Permanent Crisis? | David Walsh

12 December 2025

Where Does the West Get Russia Wrong? | Gabrielius Landsbergis

12 December 2025

Why for Russia, Politics is War? | Volodymyr Yermolenko

Values vs Business: The China Lesson | Peter Hefele

Why the Veto Power is the Biggest Threat to European Unity? | Joshua Livestro

Will the Arctic Become a Great Power Battlefield? | Christian Leuprecht

Is Trading with China our Surrender? | Reinhard Kloucek

28 February 2025

Why Russia-Iran Axis is an Existential Threat to Israel? | Daniel Rakov

21 October 2024

Why We Keep Making the Same Mistakes with Putin? | James Sherr

Why Child Subsidies Won't Save Our Demographics? | Michał Kamiński

16 September 2024

Can Negotiations Stop Putin? | Donald Jensen

Is Putin’s Nuclear Bluff Still Working on the West? | Fabian Rene Hoffmann

Why Ukraine Must Join the EU to Survive? | Garvan Walshe

The Authoritarian Axis: How Moscow and Beijing are Dividing the World | Paul McCarthy

Is Peace Possible Without the Collapse of Russian Empire? | Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

Why Russian Oligarchs Fear Overthrowing Putin? | Konstantin von Eggert

Microchips: Will EU ever catch up to Taiwan and China? | S. Inoue & T. Hashimoto

What Awaits Ukraine Without Western Support? | Yevhen Mahda

Deterring Russia: Why Biden’s Ukraine Strategy Failed | James J. Carafano

Why "The Sopranos" Explains Kremlin Better than Textbooks | Brian Whitmore

Will Berlin step up as Europe’s security guarantor? | Rainer Meyer zum Felde

12 January 2024

Who Will Win the Battle for Europe's Center? | Thibault Muzergues

22 December 2023

Did Germany Learn the Nord Stream Lesson? | John Lough

15 December 2023

Will China Attack Taiwan by 2030? | Paul Monk

7 December 2023

Zeitenwende, Neo-idealism and Realism | Benjamin Tallis