Podcast Episode · American Prestige · September 23 · 55m

“Art vs. Artist” at Liberalism’s End

Daniel Bessner, author of the new book, "Imperialist Realism: Politics and Culture at the End of the American Century," on the day after it'

“American Prestige” takes a comprehensive look at U.S. foreign policy and int'l affairs, providing listeners with everything they need to know about what's going on in the world.

For this week’s vamp valley stream, I’m joined by Daniel Bessner to talk about how our politics are in the grips of a powerful decadent rationalist illusion: it’s the idea that information is power.…

Daniel Bessner and Erik Baker on Cold War liberalism and its afterlives

“American Prestige” takes a comprehensive look at U.S. foreign policy and int'l affairs, providing listeners with everything they need to know about what's going on in the world.

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If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.

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Please welcome our newest Foreign Exchanges contributor!

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