We’re pleased to welcome Dr. Lincoln Mitchell back to discuss the Jewish dimensions of the war in Ukraine, including the legacy of the Holocaust, the significance of Volodymyr Zelensky’s Jewishness, and the accusations of Nazism all around. With years of firsthand experience and scholarship in the Former Soviet Union, Lincoln will bring unique insight to those of us who care passionately about what’s going on, but who also have many questions about the causes and events on the ground.

Dr. Lincoln Mitchell is our favorite discussion partner on diverse topics embracing politics, Russia, baseball, and music. He is a scholar, pundit, consultant, and writer, working on democracy- and governance-related issues in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and around the world. He is a regular columnist with the San Francisco Examiner and a frequent contributor to CNN.com, The Forward, and many other popular and scholar publications, and he was the national political correspondent for The New York Observer from 2014-2016. He was on the faculty of Columbia University’s School of International Affairs from 2006-2013.

Lincoln writes prolifically about democracy, politics, and baseball. The most recent of his seven books The Giants and Their City: Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976-1992 (2021).

Image credit: Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, President Zelensky at Babyn Yar memorial in Kyiv, 2021.