Has Washington’s foreign policy Blob begun to internalize far-right politics?
Have the most militarist sections of the Blob succeeded in infiltrating the Trump administration's foreign policy?
On whom does the Iran war hang, or the trillion-dollar military budget for that matter?
What function do think tanks serve?
And what is the relationship of the Blob to the capitalist establishment and the power of the national security state?
Jonathan Guyer (host of the None of the Above podcast and program director at the Institute for Global Affairs) joins me to make sense of how Washington foreign policy works, especially in the wake of the Democrats’ sweeping electoral victories in the 2026 mid-term elections.
Read Jonathan’s essay, “Trump’s Blob,” in the New York Review of Books.
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