American Prestige

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Danny and Derek welcome back Samuel Huneke, assistant professor of history at George Mason University, to discuss queer life in Germany from the 18th century through the Cold War. In this episode, they pick up at the end of WWII and situate us in the era of Germany’s partition, exploring socialism’s relationship with homosexuality, queer life in Allied …

Derek plugged into the mainframe, Danny mined the data…It’s the weekly News Roundup. This week: the Israeli Supreme Court orders Netanyahu to dismiss his interior minister (0:31), Israel is averaging about one Palestinian killing per day in West Bank so far this year (3:32); China’s population declined last year for the first time since 1961 (6:18), Jacinda Ardern resigns as prime minister of New Zealand (10:16); an update on the implementation of the peace deal in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region (12:50); a Ukraine update (14:57), Sweden and Finland inch along towards NATO membership (20:47), and protests continue in Peru (24:17).

Recorded Thursday, January 19, 2023

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Danny and Derek welcome back Michael Brenes, associate director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and lecturer in history at Yale University, to discuss the undisputed greatest use of taxpayer dollars in our great nation’s history: the F-35. They discuss its war-fighting purpose, Lockheed’s business strategy with the jet, the effect of consolidation and privization on the arms industry, and more.

Check out Michael’s article on the F-35 in Jacobin: “The F-35 Is Everything Wrong With the Military-Industrial Complex”.

Also check out Michael’s Substack, Warfare and Welfare.

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Danny and Derek welcome back Stefan Eich, assistant professor of government at Georgetown University, to continue their conversation of the politics of money. In this episode, they continue their discussion of John Maynard Keynes, his reaction to the the Great Depression, his seminal 1936 work The General Theory Of Employment Interest And Money, his per…

And we’re back! Happy New Year, Prestigeheads and Haters alike, it’s Danny and Derek with the News Roundup. This week: Wagner Group activity in Ukraine and a leadership reshuffle for Russia (1:31), progress made in the Tigray Conflict peace plan in Ethiopia (10:17), a little dust-up in Brazil (12:30), more protests in Peru (21:19), and the “Three Amigos” summit in Mexico (25:23),

Recorded Thursday, January 12, 2022

Check out our Brazil special with Benjamin Fogel!

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Danny and Derek welcome Christopher McKnight Nichols, Wayne Woodrow Hayes chair in national security studies and professor of history at Ohio State University, to discuss the volume he co-edited, Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories. They define ideology vs. ideas, their effect on US foreign relations since colonial times, and more.

Grab a copy of the book here!

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Danny and Derek welcome back Benjamin Fogel, contributing editor to Jacobin, to discuss the events of Sunday, January 8, 2023 in Brazil’s capital Brasília as crowds of people attacked all three branches of government.

Recorded Monday, January 9, 2023

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Danny and Derek welcome back Samuel Huneke, assistant professor of history at George Mason University, to discuss his book States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. In this episode, they focus on the Holocaust, how it affected queer people, the perceived “internal” threat of gay men vs. the “external” threat of Jews, the infamous pink triangle, and more.

Check out Dr. Huneke’s book here!

Danny and Derek are joined by the writer Jacob Bacharach and Matt Christman, co-host of Chapo Trap House and Hell of Presidents, about the "New Chronology" Soviet/Russian conspiracy theory. The four explore everything from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the history of chronology, Mormonism, and more.

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Danny and Derek welcome Jonathan Kirshner, professor of political science and international studies at Boston College, to discuss his book An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics. They touch on structural realism/neorealism, the importance of classical realism, Mearsheimer, Thucydides, and more.

*Producer’s note: Due to a technical error, we unfortunately do not have audio for the beginning of this conversation, so the discussion picks up about 15 minutes in.

Grab up a copy of Jonathan’s book!

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