Danny and Derek continue their conversation with Drew McKevitt, the John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University, about his book Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America. This episode picks up in the late 1950s with America's push for gun regulation, baby boomers' access to surplus military weapons, militant groups in the 1960s, European countries' gun exports to the US, the Gun Control Act of 1968, and more.

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Although host Derek Davison has mentat-like abilities to aggregate an enormous amount of world news each day for his Foreign Exchanges newsletter (and once a week for our AP news roundup), even he needs a break every now and then. This week, instead of the news, Danny interviews Derek about his piece for FX, "Letting it All Burn". They talk about what goes into Derek's journalistic work, what drove him to write this unusually reflective column, what he thinks is particularly different (or not) about the current moment in the Middle East, and whether he sees any way out of the status quo in Western/North Atlantic politics.

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Danny and Derek give an update on Israel's invasion of Lebanon, Iran's ballistic missile strikes, what this means for Gaza, and the strategy (?) of Joe "does not have a doctorate in foreign affairs" Biden.

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Danny speaks with American Prestige's own producer Jake Aron, who lives in Asheville, North Carolina, and which is among many places in the region devastated by Hurricane Helene. Jake shares his observations from the city over the past few days, including the state response, people's access to basic needs, and how this catastrophic event at home mirrors our foreign policy.

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* Beloved Asheville

* Mutual Aid Disaster Relief

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* North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund

Danny speaks with American Prestige's own producer Jake Aron, who lives in Asheville, North Carolina, and which is among many places in the region devastated by Hurricane Helene. Jake shares his observations from the city over the past few days, including the state response, people's access to basic needs, and how this catastrophic event at home mirrors our foreign policy.

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Danny and Derek talk with Drew McKevitt, the John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University, about his new book Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America.

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Danny and Derek talk with Drew McKevitt, the John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University, about his new book Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America.

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Danny and Derek speak to Séamus Malekafzali about Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah. 

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Danny and Derek sit down with Ben Freeman, director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, to discuss NYC Mayor Eric Adams's indictment, connection to the Turkish government, and more about foreign influence in the United States. 

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Writer and journalist Lily Lynch is back on the program to talk about her latest piece for The New Statesmen, "The neoliberal battle for Ukraine's reconstruction". The group discuss some of the entities already investing in the country's post-war future, Zelenskyy's TV career in the context of post-Cold War Ukraine, his theory of governance, the marriage of tech and anti-corruption, how war has affected the effort at liberalization, and more.

Follow Lily on Twitter @lilyslynch, and check out her work regularly appearing in The New Statesman and New Left Review.

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