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Michael Kazin! The Democratic Party, Leftism, and Global Policy | Ep. 150
Episode 151
The legendary New Leftist and historian Michael Kazin joins the pod to talk about his recent essay in Dissent, "Reject the Left-Right Alliance in Ukr…
2 years, 9 months ago
AUKUS, Arms-Racing, and the Dollar Supremacy Debate | Ep. 149
Episode 150
What Fareed Zakaria doesn't get about the dollar supremacy debate. Why American exceptionalists can't see Asian arms-racing clearly. Why AUKUS is con…
2 years, 9 months ago
How Black Americans View Ukraine, Taiwan, and America's Global Role, w/ Chris Shell | Ep. 148
Episode 149
How do African Americans view America's role in the world? What does it mean when Black Americans say the US should "keep out" of foreign interventi…
2 years, 9 months ago
Movie Night: Bulworth, w/ Colette Shade and Matt Duss | Ep. 147
Episode 148
For the pod's first movie night, Van, Colette Shade, and Matt Duss discuss the 1998 cult political comedy, Bulworth. Did Bulworth presage Bernie Sand…
2 years, 10 months ago
Fearing Atlantic Revolution and the Geopolitical Literacy of Slaves, w/ Samantha Payne | Ep. 146
Episode 147
We're trying to do more to spotlight interesting journal article-based academic research in a non-boring way. So today Van sits down with Dr. Samanth…
2 years, 10 months ago
Raging Against the Foreign Policy Conversation | Ep. 145
Episode 146
Kate and Hunter are back with Van. What's up with the "Rage Against the War Machine" protests? Is it really antiwar? Working class versus middle clas…
2 years, 10 months ago
Pacific Power Paradox Book Launch Talk at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy | Ep. 144
Episode 145
Van does battle with voices ranging from John Mearsheimer and Robert Kagan to Joseph Nye and Hillary Clinton in this book launch at the Institute for…
2 years, 10 months ago
Realism's Imperial Origins Part II, w/ Dr. Matthew Specter | Ep. 143
Episode 144
Part II of Van's interview with Dr. Matthew Specter, discussing his new book, The Atlantic Realists. Was Hans Morgenthau a Leftist? Is great-power co…
2 years, 11 months ago
Realism's Imperial Origins Part I, w/ Dr. Matthew Specter | Ep. 142
Episode 143
Van's interview with Dr. Matthew Specter discusses his new book, The Atlantic Realists. They get into the diverse understandings of the realist tradi…
2 years, 11 months ago
An Oral History of the Pivot to Asia, and Confronting the National Security State | Ep. 141
Episode 142
What is the real nature of the "China problem?" How did Sino-US detente and collaboration become great-power competition and rivalry? What did Obama'…
2 years, 11 months ago