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Kashmir Nuke Crisis | Houthi Ceasefire | China's 6th-Gen Fighter | Post-American Asia | Fascist Budgeting | Stockholm DEI | Ep. 238
Just dropped a new (emergency?) episode of the pod, covering:
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I Agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene on Two Things
I’m as surprised--and disturbed--to write that as you are to read it.
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“Women, Peace, & Security” is Not a Trilemma
I mourn the murder of “Women, Peace, and Security” (WPS) even though I was never a champion of that phrase.
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Friendship and National-Security Ideology: A Living Experiment
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Intelligent China Policy: An Interview with Paul Heer
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A Political Map of Washington Think Tanks
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What is “Far-Right Leninist Multipolarity?”
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Public Versus Elite Intellectualism
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China Hawks’ “Yale Consensus” Wish-Casting
On building a strawman out of myopia, military solutionism, and American exceptionalism.
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The Andor Dilemma: Pop Culture’s Place in Leftist Strategy
When Andor first dropped in 2022, I wrote a short essay relating it to debates on the left about political strategy.
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A Robotics War? America Literally Can’t Compete
Even the contradictions in MAGA’s vision to restore manufacturing at home will be irrelevant given China’s advantages in the ongoing economic war.
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Declassified Covert Action Documents From The Cold War
The JFK Assassination Files included some important insights about the CIA and US covert contributions to overthrowing democracies and subverting labor…
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100 Days of MAGA Revolution
What it’s looking like to seriously pursue white nationalist oligarchy at home, “civilizational multipolarity” abroad.
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Nuke-You-Lear Catastrophe w/ Emma Claire Foley
The latest episode of the pod is a longtime coming.
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Why China, Why Not Vietnam
Only a world-systems perspective can answer that question rationally.
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