American Prestige

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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Happy New Year! Danny, Derek, and Producer Jake welcome Catherine Bateson, associate lecturer of American history at the University of Kent, to discuss the music of American wars. They touch on music’s multifaceted role in different conflicts, musical literacy before mass media, appropriation and recycling of familiar melodies, the ideology of war music, protest songs, and more.

Be sure to grab a copy of Catherine’s book Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood!

Grab your flight suit, aviators, and baby oil: Will Menaker is in the house. The host of the Chapo Trap House podcast joins Danny and Derek for a discussion of the classic action flick Top Gun. The crew discusses Vietnam Syndrome, the lost trope of the fighter pilot, Tony Scott, and homoeroticism, as all three hosts revisit what may be the most “California” film franchise to date.

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Danny and Derek welcome Lauren Turek, associate professor of history at Trinity University, to discuss the influence of evangelical Christians on US foreign policy throughout the country’s history. They touch on the contentious definition of what an “evangelical” is, prominent thinkers in the evangelical tradition, the gender dynamics of evangelical organizing, the effect on evangelicals on human rights discourse, and more.

Grab a copy of Lauren’s book To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations!

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Danny and Derek welcome Jeremy Friedman, Marvin Bower associate professor at Harvard Business School, for a discussion about the Sino-Soviet split. They talk about the early days of the revolutionary states’ relationship, the differences in their ideologies, the external forces shaping each nation’s trajectory, the heyday of their cooperation, and the beginning of the fissure in the mid-1950s.

Grab a copy of Jeremy’s great book Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World!

Merry Christmas! Danny and Derek speak with the historian Terri Blom Crocker to discuss the famous Christmas Truce of 1914, when soldiers in World War I made various agreements to  cede fighting. We talk about the reality of the various truces and how the truce has been memorialized and remembered since 1914.

Please find Terri's book here! 

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Season’s greetings! It’s the jolliest of episodes: The News Roundup. This week: Netanyahu forms a government in Israel, the Taliban bans women from university in Afghanistan, fears of a COVID wave in China, election results and a possible coup in Fiji, elections in Tunisia, a Russia-Ukraine update, Sweden-Turkey extradition, a Peru update, and Brandon Biden makes a profit on oil sales.

Recorded Thursday, December 22, 2022

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Danny and Derek welcome back Alexander Aviña, associate professor of history at Arizona State University, for a discussion focusing on the career of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of Mexico. They touch on his unsuccessful bids for president, the MORENA party, the current Mexican political culture, his relationship to neoliberalism, his administration’s foreign policy, COVID response, and more.

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Check out Alexander’s book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside, the basis of an ongoing AP series.

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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 pick up after the Nazis take power, examining the effect of the Nuremberg Laws on gay, lesbian, and trangender life, Nazi notions of gender roles, the concept of third gender in German society, queer exiles, and more.

Check out Dr. Huneke’s book here!

When not slinging NFTs featuring Producer Jake’s likeness, Danny and Derek give you one thing: The News. This week: ongoing protests in Peru (1:41), constitutional struggles in Chile (6:34), tensions in northern Kosovo (9:27), the mayor of Istanbul is convicted of insulting public officials in Turkey (13:45), a Ukraine update (16:47), the US-Africa Leaders Summit in DC (19:45), and Bernie caves on the Yemen war powers resolution (23:08).

Recorded Thursday, December 15, 2022

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