Sitemap - 2025 - Un-Diplomatic
Hypocrisy and The No-Political-Violence Catechism
White Supremacist Statecraft Humiliates South Korea
An Oral History of the Progressive Foreign Policy Moment (and what comes next)
On Utopias, Imperial Decline, and Monterey, California
Peace and Economic Democracy as Preeminent National Interests
Lessons from Congressional Black Caucus Members’ Leadership in US Foreign Policy
Lee's clever obsequience, Trump's utter stupidity set tone for US-ROK Summit
The Meaning of “Public Service” in Times Like These
The End of International Relations As We Know It...
Ripe for Imperialist Resolution: Ukraine’s Mutually Hurting Stalemate with Russia
12 Readings for Seeing China Differently
Wargaming Scenario: MAGA Versus The Cartels
Taiwan’s Anti-China Polarization
Who Benefits From Political Violence?
The Chinese “Consumption Problem” Problem
Live! National Teach-In: Militarism Under Trump, w/ Roots Action | Ep. 252
I. William Zartman and The Peace Intellectual Tradition
Be warned: the financial bubble will soon burst
Western Foreign Policy is Anti-Democratic
The Aspen Strategy Group: More Banality Than Evil
Containment, Extermination, and Zombie Films
The US Can’t Debate “Great-Power Competition” with China
AOC Misunderstands the Offense-Defense Balance
Spencer Ackerman’s New York State of Mind: Peace, Populism, and Zohran Mamdani | Ep. 250
Run For Your Life: Appearance on The Nostalgia Trap
New Left Review Gets It Half Right on Israel and China
Political Consciousness and The State Department Purge
Trump is Sanctioning THE WORLD
The Art of Memoir and Stories of Conversion
Project 2029: Six Questions for Democratic “Leaders”
Elbridge Colby Trades Defending Ukraine for War With China
Welcome to the Age of Disappearance
Working with the Contradictions of “Antiwar MAGA”
The Complete Andor Mini-Series
Parsing Preemptive from Preventive War
Announcing Un-Diplomatic’s In Media Res
Iran, Israel, and the US Making a Mockery of the National Security Bro
Why I Predicted War With Iran...
Trump’s War With Iran Would’ve Happened With North Korea...
The Hawks Finally Got Their War With Iran
The Riot, Strategy Brain, and Counter-Insurrrectionary Deterrence
Insurrection, Rebellion, and California Pacification
The Futility of Counter-Insurgency: Laughing Through The Tears
Abolish Palantir | Ukraine Drones | White Supremacy State Department | South Korea's Bernie Sanders
South Korea’s Bernie Sanders Just Won. Now What?
Part II: The Dishonesty of Washington’s Sphere of Influence Debate
Part I: The Dishonesty of Washington’s Sphere of Influence Debate
Live! The Pacific Sovereignty Deficit and Sino-US Rivalry
Guess Who Wants Asian NATO Now?
America Might Be A Self-Destructive Project
Pacific Sacrifice Zones in Washington’s Frontier Imagination
Marco Rubio Versus the Deep State? No
Against Cheering A “Chinese Century”
Putting Great-Power Rivalry in Context
Strategy & Conscience (The Book Review We Need)
Labor Strategy at the End of the World w/ Eric Blanc
Trump Stole The Democrats’ Foreign Policy Speech...Out of the Trash
Horny for Territory, or Desperate for a Fix?
Katrina vanden Heuvel on Europe’s Far Right, European Rearmament, and the Trump Effect | Ep. 239
Revenge is the Enemy of Deterrence
I Agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene on Two Things
“Women, Peace, & Security” is Not a Trilemma
China Hawks’ “Yale Consensus” Wish-Casting
The Andor Dilemma: Pop Culture’s Place in Leftist Strategy
A Robotics War? America Literally Can’t Compete
Declassified Covert Action Documents From The Cold War
Nuke-You-Lear Catastrophe w/ Emma Claire Foley
The Film That Taught Me About “Blowback” As a Kid
Zombie Economic Nationalism, Antifascist Protest, and Arundhati Roy
5 Questions About the Global South, MAGA, and Great-Power Competition
The Death-Cult Logic of the Billionaire Mind
Part I: “International Relations for Billionaires” is a Death Certificate
Up-Skill for Revolution: Making Documentaries That Matter
Tariffs as Economic War in an Emerging Post-American Order
European Defense: First the Horror Vacui, Then…What?
Why Oligarchs Want a Recession
Musk v. Navarro: A Fracture in the Oligarch-Ethnonationalist Coalition
Three Charts That Explain What’s Wrong With Capitalism Today
The Patriot-Strategist Dilemma
Asia’s Response to Trump’s Globalized Class War
The Newsletter That Forewarned of Trump’s Global Tariff War
Guest Lecture: Progressive Foreign Policy at the Catholic University of America
Tariffs, the Far Right, and Imperialist Geopolitics
“National Security” Threatens the Working Class
US War Crime Confessions | Europe’s Militarism Risk | BYD Versus Tesla | Taiwan’s Angst | Ep. 229
Michael Anton is No George Kennan
What If Full Metal Jacket Was The Only Thing You Knew About the Military?
Warring for the US Institute of Peace
The Emotional Stress of Imperial Decline
Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter from ICE Detention
Can China Grab the Root of Global Insecurity?
Washington Loves Guam...TO DEATH!
National Security As An Architecture of Bullsh*t
On Becoming Jack Ryan in The Sum of All Fears
America’s Coming Great Depression
Does the World Actually Need America?
Talking to the People About International Relations
How Neocons Map Trump’s Foreign Policy Coalitions
“Blue Ethnic Cleansing” in San Francisco?
National Security is Stealing from You To Fund A War Against You
JD Vance Versus Niall Ferguson is the Stupidity We Deserve
“From liberator to great disruptor to a landlord seeking rent”
Gen Z Tech Bros Have No History
The Pentagon C*ck-Thumbing the DOGE Boys
NonZero World: Making Critical Sense of Sino-US Relations
Antimilitarism As An Antidote for Alienation
Ukraine’s Imperial Peace | Tupac and the Pentagon | Mercenary Monroe Doctrine | Democratic War Hawks
The Balance of Forces Wants YOU: A Net Assessment on Fighting Tyranny in America
Live Lecture: What Good is the National Interest?
The Meaning of “Public Service” in Times Like These
Some Reflections on Three Kings (1999)
Palantir is Evil | USAID w/out World War III | ICE Performing Terror | Imagining Restraint in Asia
Appearance on Background Briefing with Ian Masters
The Anti-China Consensus is a Matter of World War III
Fear and Loathing of War on USAID
How Great-Power Rivalry Hurts Ordinary Americans
The Political Missions of the New Secretary of Defense
Pistachio Wars (2024) w/ Rowan Wernham
Our Nationalist Age is An Age of Imperial Geopolitics
“The Quad” Was Steve Bannon’s Fantasy
Marco Rubio Thinks You’re An Idiot
Time to get serious about knowing your enemies
Making Sense of the World, Un-Diplomatically
Foreign Policy Matters in Elections
The Sources of Trumperialism (why this sh*t is happening)
Is National Security #Resistance Over?
America is the Preeminent Revisionist Power
Silicon Valley’s Class War and the New Defense-Industrial Complex, w/ Max Read
Hans Morgenthau Wouldn’t Recognize Elbridge Colby