American Prestige

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 episode, they cover topics including: Israeli regional dominance in the postwar years, the so-called Arab Cold War, changes in the US-Israel relationship between 1956 and 1967, factors leading to the 1967 War, UN Security Council Resolution 242, and more.  

Grab a copy of Professor Khalidi's book here.

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Back from a residency at The Laugh Factory, it’s Danny and Derek! With news! This week: The return of Bibi in Israel (0:40), the Lebanese parliament struggles to elect a president (4:22), the Social Democrats hang onto power in Denmark (5:20), a Ukraine update (7:35), Imran Khan is shot in Pakistan (10:57), the DPRK responds to more Western military drills with missile tests (13:44), a peace deal in Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict (16:23), M23 once again on the move in the Democratic Republic of Congo (19:26), and Bolsonaro supporters take to the streets in post-election Brazil (22:15).

Recorded Thursday, November 3, 2022

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Danny and Derek welcome Joshua Olson, co-host of the new podcast The Audit, David Sirota, founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever, and Kate Willett, stand-up comedian and co-host of Reply Guys podcast, to discuss The Audit. The conversation touches on the state of the post-2016 leftwing media ecosystem, the role and value of independent media, rehabilitating irredeemable figures, the damage done by The West Wing, and more.

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Danny and Derek welcome Andrew Fishman, president and co-founder of The Intercept Brasil, and Benjamin Fogel, contributing editor to Jacobin and historian of Brazil at NYU, to discuss Sunday’s presidential runoff in Brazil in which Lula da Silva narrowly defeated Jair Bolsonaro.

Make a donation to support The Intercept Brasil, which just went independent.

Also check out the late Michael Brooks’ interview with Lula from 2020.

Recorded Monday, October 31, 2022

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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. After touching on the gold standard as it existed in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the paper money/specie relationship at the time, the crew gets into the work of John Maynard Keynes. They talk about his response to the Treaty of Versailles, his time at the UK’s India Office, his focus on central banks, the Second Thirty Years War, and more.

Check out the series page here for all episodes and be sure to pick up a copy of Stefan’s book here!

Our own Dr. Frankenstein Derek, along with Igor Danny, bring to life another news aggregation creation. This week: Russia accuses Ukraine of a planned dirty bomb (0:33), the UK’s newest (and wealthiest) prime minister (8:12), Iran protests hit 40 days and Shiraz suffers a terror attack (11:01), a Myanmar military airstrike kills at least 80 concertgoers in the country’s north (13:38), Xi announces a third term as the Chinese Communist Party’s 2022 Congress wraps up (16:36), and the UN implements sanctions on and debates an intervention in Haiti (21:31).

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Danny and Derek welcome back Daniel Immerwahr, professor of history at Northwestern University, to talk about about his new essay, “The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars”. They discuss the ideological projects of Lucas’ early work, Star Wars as a “Vietnam film”, its characters’ real-life counterparts, the franchise’s orientalism, and more.

Check out Daniel’s chapter in the volume Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories.

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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 his book For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy. They pick up the discussion after the Korean War, touching on Eisenhower’s “military-industrial complex” farewell address, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, Robert McNamara and the Kennedy administration, defense conversion and “anti-militarist” Democrats, the effect of the Vietnam War on the MIC, and more.

Check out the first episode here.

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In the second and final part of the two-hour finale to our History of Afghanistan series, Tim Nunan, lecturer in global history at the Free University of Berlin, moderates a panel discussion where he, Danny, and Derek are joined by Pashtana Durrani, founder of LEARN Afghan, and Haroun Rahimi, lawyer and visiting professor at Università Bocconi. Pashtana and Haroun share more personal experiences from Afghanistan during the war, including the media important to them in this time, the nuances of intra-Afghan cultures, life in Herat and Kandahar, the presidency of Ghani, Afghan women’s rights initiatives, , and more.

The number one news update in Dublin, Georgia returns for another weekly roundup. This week: Liz Truss’ farewell (0:40), the EU imposes yet more sanctions on Iran (7:45), a Ukraine update (10:35), renewed tensions in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict (13:38), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress (17:22), a potential intervention in Haiti (19:34), and Joe Biden dips into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (23:07).

Recorded Thursday, October 20, 2022

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