American Prestige

Danny and Derek welcome back Gregory Brew, AP’s resident “oil man” and postdoctoral fellow at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, to discuss oil: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems. They touch on the markets for oil beyond gasoline, international legal structures around the commodity, its effect on US foreign policy, emerging oil markets, the current Russian price cap, and more.

Pre-order your copy of Gregory’s book Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War!

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Prestigeheads: The Mighty Mailbag. Producer Jake tees up subscribers’ questions, theories, and prompts, and Danny and Derek knock them all out of the park (mixing sports metaphors, blah blah). Thanks to everyone who participated!

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Danny and Derek speak with Javier Puente, associate professor of Latin American and Latino/a Studies and chair of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at Smith College, about the ongoing political crisis in Peru.

Recorded Friday, December 9, 2022

All the news that’s fit for large print…it’s the News Roundup. This week: rumors of Iran doing away with the “morality police” (0:35), President Xi visits Saudi Arabia (5:49), an update on Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict (11:34), a far right plot is foiled in Germany (22:52), and the arrest of President Castillo in Peru (25:13).

Recorded Thursday, December 8, 2022

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Danny and Derek welcome back Nando Vila, host of The Best Soccer Podcast in the World, to discuss the FIFA World Cup. They touch on the ubiquity of soccer around the globe, the structure of FIFA, corruption at the organization’s top levels, the controversies surrounding the 2022 World Cup being hosted in Qatar, and more.

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Danny and Derek welcome back Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, to discuss his book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. In this final episode of the series, they discuss the US ramping up aid to Israel in the 1970s, the factors leading to the PLO conducting operations from Lebanon, the 1982 Israeli invasion of the country, the Sabra and Shatila massacre, and more.

Grab a copy of Professor Khalidi's book here.

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Back from break and full of boosters (well, Derek is, Danny is using crystals), it’s the News Roundup. This week: the third leader of Islamic State killed in Syria (0:36), protests continue in China (6:29), Russian fertilizer and grain trickles back out to the world (10:59), the US gives Chevron the green light for “limited operations” in Venezuela (15:02), and Monsieur Macron goes to Washington (17:28).

Recorded Thursday, December 1, 2022

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Danny and Derek welcome Jennifer Mittelstadt, professor of history at Rutgers University, and Mark Wilson, professor of history at UNC Charlotte, to discuss their new edited volume The Military and the Market. They talk about the military welfare state and the all-volunteer force (AVF), mercenaries within the system, and more.

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Danny and Derek welcome back Daniel Immerwahr, Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, to discuss his essay in Harper’s Magazine reviewing Pekka Hämäläinen’s book Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. They touch on reclaiming the narrative of Native American history, the resistance-focused vs lachrymose conception of American history in liberal historiography, the political ends of these two approaches, the 1619 Project, and more.

We’ve unlocked the first three episodes of our bonus series Queer Germany for the holiday weekend. Find all the episodes at the series page! Like and subscribe if you appreciate the content!

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 continue the discussion of life in Weimar Germany, why it became seen as the birthplace of modern gay politics, material conditions in a country grappling with the War Guilt Clause during the Great Depression, the influence of queer German exiles on American culture, the rise of the Nazis and their virulent homophobia, fascist aesthetics and queerness, and more.

Check out Samuel’s book here.

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