Robert Howse
Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU School of Law and author on international legal theory, who advises governments and international organizations and discusses law, sovereignty, and political theory in this episode.
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Feb 17, 2026 • 1h 4min
Trump, the UN Charter, and the Strange Politics of International Law
Robert Howse, NYU international law professor and scholar of legal theory, discusses Trump’s tangled relationship with the UN Charter. He explores debates over sovereignty, the UN’s policing role, and flexible readings of Article 2.4. The conversation also traces Straussian and Schmittian influences, the MAGA New Right’s strains, and anxieties about virtue, masculinity, and political strategy.
Feb 17, 2026 • 1h 4min
Trump, the UN Charter, and the Strange Politics of International Law
Robert Howse, NYU international law professor and adviser on global legal issues, joins to probe law, sovereignty, and political theory. He examines Trump’s pragmatic use of the UN Charter, debates about collective security versus charter purism, and tensions between Straussian and Schmittian thought. The conversation also explores neoconservative origins, masculinity and virtue anxieties, and risks of regime-change warfare.
Feb 17, 2026 • 1h 4min
Trump, the UN Charter, and the Strange Politics of International Law
Robert Howse, Lloyd C. B. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU and noted thinker on legal and political theory, discusses Trump’s instrumental relationship with the UN Charter from Gaza to Venezuela and Iran. He explores Strauss and Schmitt’s influence on contemporary right-wing thought. Conversations range from sovereignty and the use of force to virtue, masculinity, and the MAGA new right.
