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Venezuela is spinning out of control: starvation, desperation, chaos, fear. Hannah Dreier, the Associated Press correspondent in Caracas, is in the midst of it. In a briefing with Jay, she gives us the latest.

What does the latest include? The slums - the ruling party's strongholds - turning against the party. The supreme court nullifying the congress. And then reversing itself. Opposition politicians seeking refuge in embassies. People getting thinner and thinner. People trying to leave, if they possibly can. Grandmothers protesting in the streets, along with the youth - something very rare.

Rare, too, is Hannah Dreier's eyewitness reporting.

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With his old friend Mark Farrell, the golf pro, Jay talks Masters 2017 - the shoot-out between Sergio Garcia of Spain and Justin Rose of Britain. Also, should golf be an Olympic sport? (Rose is the reigning gold medalist - the only one there has been, in the modern era.) Also, whatsamatter with Tiger? And so on. Mark Farrell is a guru and a treat. Even the un-golf-minded might well enjoy.

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With Norman Podhoretz, you can talk about practically anything - so Jay does. They talk about writing, of course. Few do it as well as NPod. They talk about his friend Shakespeare, and his friend Yeats. They talk about novels. (Podhoretz rates "Anna Karenina" number one.) They talk about music and ballet. Even math and science. And also politics, including Trump. And Europe - its fate. And Israel - its.

Lucky him, Jay has had many conversations with this extraordinary man. After this "Q&A," Jay remarked, "This was maybe the best - along with all the other ones, of course."

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For ten years - 2006 to 2016 - Toomas Hendrik Ilves was president of Estonia. He grew up in New Jersey. His parents, like many Estonian parents - if they were lucky - took refuge abroad.

With Jay, he talks a little about his life, and the great challenges facing his country, and liberal democracy in general. A name for those challenges would be Vladimir Putin.

At the end of the podcast, Jay remarks that, when he was in Estonia, he had the sense of being on the front line of an important struggle. This is something that Estonians - whose country Newt Gingrich described as "the suburbs of St. Petersburg" - experience every day.

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Eliot Cohen is a leading national-security scholar and an adviser to presidents, would-be presidents, and others. His latest book is The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power & the Necessity of Military Force. Jay asks him to take a tour around the world, and he does: beginning with Mexico, moving to Europe, moving to the Far East, and the Mideast, and elsewhere. They wind up talking about the Trump administration, which includes, in senior positions, longtime friends and comrades of Cohen's. Spend some time with Professor Cohen, and you will have a heightened view of the world: its dangers and its promises.

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