In this second episode of the Burning Archive podcast, Dr Jeff Rich talks about how the United States of America is an empire in denial, and how we can respond in our daily lives to the emperor high in heaven - at least those of us in the faraway provinces.

Credits: 

* The wonderful Kimiko Ishizaka and the Open Goldberg project, for the public domain recording of the Aria from J.S.Bach's Goldberg Variations https://opengoldbergvariations.org/

* Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: a short history of the Greater United States (2019) - quotation

* Hoover Institution Goodfellows podcast - Question Time! (14 April 2021) short clip featuring Niall Ferguson, H.R. McMaster and Bill Whalen, quoted in support of scholarship.

Read more of my writing at www.theburningarchive.com

The Burning Archive is about all things history and culture, and shows how the past is not dead - the past is not even past (Credit: William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun). 

In this first episode of The Burning Archive podcast, historian, writer and failed bureaucrat, Dr Jeff Rich, talks about why it is important to have a sense of history to live well in the present, and some of the big history trends shaping our lives today.

You can read more from The Burning Archive at www.theburningarchive.com where Jeff Rich writes on history, culture and governing.

The Burning Archive is also on twitter (regrettably) at @ArchiveBurning.