On this edition of Empire Has No Clothes, Matt, Kelley, and Daniel talk with author and law professor Tim Bakken about his explosive new book, The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military, which takes on the mythology surrounding West Point Military Academy—where he is still employed. He exposes the corruption in their admissions policies and the mediocrity of the education, which he says does not teach cadets how to think for themselves. This unfortunately, is a symptom of the entire military culture. Don’t miss this one!

On this edition of Empire Has No Clothes, Matt, Kelley, and Daniel speak to Alexander Cooley and Dan Nexon, authors of the book Exit From Hegemony. They tell us why America's unipolar power in the world is over and discuss the mistakes we made that got us here. We also talk about Tom Cotton's proposal to use the military on U.S. soil and why that's such a terrible idea.

On this edition of Empire Has No Clothes, Matt, Kelley, and Daniel speak to Congressman Warren Davidson, Republican of Ohio, and one of the foremost advocates of constitutional war powers in the House. He tells us why Congress so willingly surrendered its authority to declare war to the president and whether they can ever claw it back. They also talk about the toxic U.S.-Saudi relationship and whether reform is finally—finally!—right around the corner.

On this edition of Empire Has No Clothes, Matt, Kelley and Daniel speak to Ben Denison, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, on the perils of regime change. In the intro segment, TAC national security reporter Barbara Boland lays out the latest in her reporting on what might be the worst attempted coup in history, in Venezuela, and who in the administration might have known it was coming.

On today's Empire Has No Clothes, the gang speaks to Peter Van Buren, TAC contributor and State Department whistleblower, about Iraq, the Blob, and the State Department's failure to rebuild countries we've gone to war against. In the intro segment, Matt, Kelley and Daniel cover COVID and Washington's escalating tension with Beijing.

On the first episode of Empire Has No Clothes, Matt, Kelley and Daniel previewed Justin Amash's presidential run, America's ongoing Afghan quagmire, and the unfolding humanitarian disaster in Yemen. In the second segment, they spoke to BU professor Andrew Bacevich about the Trump administration's muddled foreign policy, and whether he'd take a job in it.

Introducing Empire Has No Clothes, a new foreign policy podcast from The American Conservative.