American Prestige

It’s Danny’s Goose to Derek’s Maverick (sorry Danny)…time for the News Roundup. This week: Syria’s invited back to the Arab League (0:45), fighting in Gaza (5:20), a Sudan update (11:10), a Ukraine update (14:34), the Chilean constitutional assembly election (20:41), and Imran Khan arrested in Pakistan (24:58).

Updates since recording:

* In Israel/Palestine, there has been one reported Israeli death due to Gaza rocket fire.

* In Sudan, both sides of the conflict have agreed to protect civilians, but have not agreed to a ceasefire.

Recorded Thrusday, May 11, 2023

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Danny and Derek welcome to the program Ashoka Mody, Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, to discuss what he sees as democratic and economic breakdowns in India rooted in its post-independence period. They discuss the tenure of Jawaharlal Nehru, people left behind by post-independence industrialization, parallels with postwar Japan, American investment in the subcontinent, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, the rise of modern Hindu nationalism, and more.

Check out Dr. Mody’s book India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today. Also check out his recent op-eds in Business Standard and Project Syndicate.

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Danny and Derek welcome back James Lin, assistant professor of international studies at the University of Washington, to continue the discussion of the history of Taiwan. They pick up at the end of WWII and the Second Sino-Japanese War, assessing the effect of the war on Taiwan, the February 28th incident of 1947, the implementation of martial law, the …

This week’s bonus episode, the third installment of The History of Taiwan series w/ James Lin, is coming tomorrow, so in the meantime we hope everyone enjoys this debate using Danny’s New Republic piece on fascism as a launching point!

Daniel Steinmetz Jenkins, assistant professor in history at Wesleyan College, moderates a debate between Danny and Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and author of the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, about fascism discourse in the United States. The discussion was centered around Danny’s piece in The New Republic, “Does American Fascism Exist?”. Things get spicy, but we’re all friends in the end. Except with fascists.

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Derek releases the fire hose of news upon the trash fire of Danny. This week: the death of an Islamic State leader (0:39), clashes in the Gaza Strip (5:52), a Sudan update (8:27), the Kremlin drone strike and a Ukraine update (12:04), a damning human rights report on Peru (16:21), a New Cold War update (17:48) featuring the Paraguayan election and its relationship with Taiwan (17:52), a new US embassy in Tonga (19:40), a new NATO office in Japan (20:36), and Jake Sullivan’s Washington Consensus speech (24:08).

Recorded Thursday, May 4, 2023

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Danny speaks with Derek about the overnight drone strike on the Kremlin in an alleged assassination attempt on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s life.

Recorded Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Danny and Derek welcome to the program Zach Fredman, assistant professor of history at Duke Kunshan University, to discuss his book The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949. They get into the background of the US military presence in China at the end of “the century of humiliation”, the US-China relationship prior to WWII, General Joseph Stilwell, the day-to-day interactions between American GIs and both Chinese military and civilians, the occupation’s place in the broader American imperial history in East Asia, and more.

Dr. Fredman will be speaking at the Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS) tomorrow, Wednesday, May 3, which will have a remote option to participate as well.

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Danny and Derek welcome back Alexander Aviña, associate professor of history at Arizona State University, to close out the discussion of rural guerrilla movements in Mexico and other topics from his book Specters of Revolution. In this episode, they discuss the myriad crises facing Mexico in the mid-1990s, Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of N…

Ahead of closing out our Lessons of Guerrero series on Sunday, we’ve unlocked the second episode so you can catch up!

Danny and Derek welcome back Alexander Aviña, associate professor of history at Arizona State University, to continue the discussion of his book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside. In this episode, they pick up in the 1970s and discuss President Luis Echeverría, the advent of neoliberalism in Mexico, the 1982 default, the transformation of the drug trade in the 1980s, changes in the PRI during the same era, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, and more through the 1995 Aguas Blancas massacre.

Listen to the first episode here!

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Danny and Derek welcome Joshua Craze, writer and researcher specializing in Sudan, to discuss the current conflict taking place between the Rapid Support Forces and Sudanese Armed Forces.

Check out Joshua’s piece in New Left Review, and his other work at his website!

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