American Prestige

Danny and Derek welcome back Christopher McKnight Nichols, Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies and professor of history at Ohio State University, to the program for a chat about rethinking American grand strategy. They talk about what exactly “grand strategy” is, grand strategy vs...

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Danny welcomes back Terry Renaud, assistant instructional professor in social sciences at the University of Chicago, to the pod to conclude the series on “new lefts”. They discuss the legacy of the 1960s in the American imagination, criticisms of the new left movements of that decade, neoliberalism and the “‘Me Decade”, how the US higher education syste…

Note: Team AP is on the road this week, so no news. Instead, please enjoy this bonus episode on gaming!

Danny speaks with Clayton Kozan, a graduate student at Texas Tech University who analyzes how the Vietnam War is portrayed in video games...

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Danny welcomes Terry Renaud, assistant instructional professor in social sciences at the University of Chicago, back to the pod to continue the series on “new lefts”. This episode focuses on what most people know as “The New Left”, i.e. the new left movements of the 1950s and 1960s. They compare the new lefts of postwar decades vs. those in the prewar y…

Danny and Derek are back with the #1 news digest in Rákosszentmihály...

Danny welcomes Christopher Layne, professor of international affairs and Robert M...

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Danny and Derek welcome author China Miéville, whose most recent book is A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto. They discuss the role of the artist and intellectual in 2023, the genre of manifesto and potential for enacting change, labor relations without a workplace, private vs. personal property, criticism of Marx from a left perspective, ps…

Danny and Derek are back with another news roundup for all! This week: more updates on the Wagner uprising in Russia (0:34), Sweden hits a speed bump in its path to NATO membership (10:53), a Ukraine update (17:04), conservative Mitsotakis wins re-election in Greece (19:46), Biden cuts funding for West Bank institutions (21:27), a Sudan update (22:39), the UN peacekeeping operation in Mali looks to be shut down (25:54), a new UN report on the the US’s human rights violations in Guantanamo...

Danny and Derek welcome Kelly Grieco, senior fellow in the Reimagining U.S. Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center, and Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss the US’s presence in the Indo-Pacific...

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Danny and Derek welcome Mark Ames, co-host of Radio War Nerd, to the show to analyze the weekend’s events in Russia involving the Wagner Group, speculating on what Prigozhin’s aim was, what this all might suggest about the Russian state and power structure, Wagner’s future, the “Russia experts” who mobilized around the incident, and more.

Recorded Monday…