Don't Know Much About with Naya Lekht
Don't Know Much About is a podcast hosted by Dr. Naya Lekht, a scholar and educator with a PhD from UCLA in Russian Literature. Each episode unpacks a contentious topic — from antizionism and Soviet history to Jewish identity and contemporary geopolitics — through rigorous research, personal stories, and candid conversations with leading thinkers. Clarifying the complex, one conversation at a time.
Don't Know Much About with Naya Lekht
Latest Episodes
The Wrong Analogy: Rethinking Zionism, Nationalism, and the Middle East with Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki
In this episode of Don't Know Much About, Naya Lekht sits down with historian Dr. Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki to dismantle one of the most pervasive arguments used against the Jewish state: that Zionism is a 19th-century European settler-...
The Woke Right, Chrislam, and the Soul of MAGA with Karys Rhea
In this episode of Don't Know Much About, Naya Lekht sits down with political commentator and writer Karys Rhea to examine one of the most alarming developments in contemporary American politics: the emergence of the "Woke Right." Long...
"The Campus That Celebrated October 7th" with Eyal Yakoby
In this episode of Don't Know Much About, Naya Lekht sits down with Eyal Yakoby: UPenn graduate, incoming MIT student, and one of the most prominent young voices documenting Jew hatred on campus and in the streets of America.
Stop Antizionism with Ben Shapiro and Natasha Pein
In this special segment of Don't Know Much About, Naya Lekht is joined by Ben Shapiro, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and Natasha Pein, Naya's partner and co-founder of Stop Antizionism, just one week before the inaugural ...
The UN's Antizionist Machine: 50 Years of Institutional Bias with Ben Cohen
In this episode, Naya Lekht is joined by Ben Cohen, Director of Rapid Response at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), journalist, and one of the foremost researchers on global antisemitism and antizionism. Ben's work spans the Wall...