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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...

Tucker Carlson Ruins Ted Cruz | No War with Iran | “No Kings” Protests | Democrats Need a Peace Agenda | Ep. 245

Trump’s War With Iran Would’ve Happened With North Korea...

The Hawks Finally Got Their War With Iran

War on California, United Farm Workers, and Leaving the “Lockheed Left” w/ Antonio De Loera | Ep. 244

You're a Bunch of Cowards!

The Riot, Strategy Brain, and Counter-Insurrrectionary Deterrence

Music to Riot By

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”

Exodus from Liberal Zionism

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

Kashmir Nuke Crisis | Houthi Ceasefire | China's 6th-Gen Fighter | Post-American Asia | Fascist Budgeting | Stockholm DEI | Ep. 238

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

100 Days of MAGA Revolution

Nuke-You-Lear Catastrophe w/ Emma Claire Foley

Why China, Why Not Vietnam

The Film That Taught Me About “Blowback” As a Kid

Zombie Economic Nationalism, Antifascist Protest, and Arundhati Roy

Pentagon F*ckery

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

Flyover Country

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

Pete Hegseth’s War Plan Leak | JD Vance’s War on Europe | Fentanyl Isn’t WMD | Mineral Geopolitics in the Congo | Bernie-AOC Popularity | Ep. 228

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!

Grand Strategy for (War Crime) Dummies | Rahm Emmanuel for Exile | AUKUS Politics | Mahmoud Khalil | Ep. 226

Appearance on Lawfare Daily

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?

Palestine at the Oscars | Ukraine's Peace Problems | China Tariffs NBD | Working-Class Homeless | Ep. 225

Talking to the People About International Relations

How Neocons Map Trump’s Foreign Policy Coalitions

Five-Eyes Minus Canada? | Non-Aligned Europe | Primacy-Multipolarity | Nuking the Nuclear Triad | Ukraine's Critical Minerals | Ep. 224

“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

Manufacturing Chinese Consent

Foreign Policy Matters in Elections

The Sources of Trumperialism (why this sh*t is happening)

Four Great Reads

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

Stephen Wertheim on War and Peace in Europe and Asia

The Geopolitics of American Homelessness and Rent Distress