American Prestige
575 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 594 ratingsA podcast from Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison that provides listeners with everything they need to know about what’s going on in the world.
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Special - The ICJ Israel Case Explainer w/ Aslı Bâli
January 28, 2024 18:57 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek chat with Aslı Bâli, professor of law at Yale Law School. Aslı, whose research focuses largely on human rights law and the law of the international security order, helps us break down the legal definition of genocide, the substance of the ICJ ruling and what was ordered, and the court’s ability to enforce it. The conversation continues f…
Bonus - Nakba in the Age of Catastrophe w/ Sherene Seikaly
January 28, 2024 10:01 - 5 minutes - 5.79 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek speak with Sherene Seikaly, associate professor of history at UC Santa Barbara and historian of Palestine, about the eponymous piece she wrote for Jadaliyya at the beginning of 2023. They discuss the framing of “the age of catastrophe”, where Palestine endures an ongoing Nakba as the climate crisis accelerates, how people find simple way…
Special - The ICJ Ruling on Israel and Genocide
January 26, 2024 19:05 - 2 minutes - 3.42 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek catch subscribers up on today’s ruling by the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding South Africa’s genocide case against Israel.
News - Gaza War, Yemen Strikes, Argentina Protests
January 26, 2024 10:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBThis week: Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks amble along (0:30), Netanyahu snubs Qatar (5:11), militants kill 21 IDF soldiers in a single attack (10:25), and more from Israel-Palestine; in Yemen, the U.S. prepares for a “sustained military campaign” (15:40) while a new report details the effect of sanctions on humanitarian relief (16:50); talk of (another) U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq (19:24); Pakistan and Iran agree to stand down (22:22); India’s Modi opens a controversial new temple (24:39);...
E132 - The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba w/ Stuart Reid
January 23, 2024 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBPatrice Lumumba, the first president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has become a mythic figure among the left, due in no small part to the CIA’s role in his ousting and assassination less than one year after the start of his premiership. Stuart Reid, editor at Foreign Affairs, joins Derek to discuss the full story of Lumumba’s downfall, as detailed in Reid’s recent book The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination. This is a public episode. If you’d li...
Bonus - The History of the Kurds, Ep. 6 w/ Djene Bajalan
January 21, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutes - 6.06 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Djene Bajalan, associate professor of history at Missouri State University, returns to educate us on Kurdish history. We’ve reached the 1971 coup in Turkey, which has fractured the left. In its wake, a group led by Abdullah Öcalan forms what will become the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The discussion covers the PKK’s ideology, how it differentiates i…
Special - The 2024 Taiwanese Presidential Election w/ James Lin
January 19, 2024 22:42 - 2 minutes - 3.36 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Official AP Taiwan Desk James Lin returns to the pod to give us a breakdown of the recent presidential election in Taiwan. The group discusses the three candidates, winner Lai Ching-te’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its moves to avoid repercussions from the PRC (China), the international response to the election, the evolving diplomatic norms …
News - Iran Attacks, Israel-Palestine, Taiwan Election
January 19, 2024 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBDerek and Danny report for duty. This week: Iran attacks targets in Syria, Iraq, and Pakistan (1:01); U.S. strikes on Ansar Allah (Houthi) targets fail to deter attacks on shipping (10:17); an Israel-Palestine update (12:55) including a Qatari medicine deal (15:26) and Netanyahu’s take on a Palestinian state (17:41); Taiwan’s presidential election (22:18); Kim of the DPRK (North Korea) lashes out at the South (25:16); tensions continue to escalate between Somalia and Ethiopia (27:06); a Ukra...
E131 - The End of Liberal Certainty w/ John Gray
January 16, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBJohn Gray, emeritus professor of European thought at the London School of Economics, joins Danny for a lively chat about liberalism, the powers that be, and what the duo calls “the bads”. Centering John’s recent book The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism, this wide-ranging discussion tries to make sense of the post-Cold War world, assess the threats posed by political and environmental factors, and reckon with what John sees as the extreme default condition of human life. This is...
Special - The White House, Gaza, and the NSC’s Lies w/ Akbar Shahid Ahmed
January 15, 2024 21:02 - 10 minutes - 9.74 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Akbar Shahid Ahmed, senior foreign affairs reporter at HuffPost, returns to the podcast to discuss his recent pieces covering the post-Gaza plans of top White House official Brett McGurk and the imminent departure of the White House’s special Middle East envoy on humanitarian issues. Then, for subscribers, the group gets into the NSC’s attempts to discr…
Bonus - George Kennan w/ Frank Costigliola
January 14, 2024 14:36 - 4 minutes - 5.36 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny chats with Frank Costigliola, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, about diplomat and historian George F. Kennan. They discuss his legacy as a realist with an unending belief in diplomacy, the “long telegram”, his wariness of the public holding sway in foreign relations, the emphasis on industrial …
Special - The 2024 Crisis in Ecuador w/ Guillaume Long
January 12, 2024 18:39 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Derek Sits down with Guillaume Long, senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and and Policy Research (CEPR) and former foreign minister of Ecuador, to discuss the outburst of armed conflict there over the last several days and how this fits into a larger context of issues facing the country. Subscribe now for the full interview! Recorded Friday…
Special - South Africa Takes Israel to the ICJ w/ Spencer Ackerman
January 12, 2024 14:25 - 3 minutes - 4.35 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Spencer Ackerman, journalist at various outlets including Forever Wars, chats with Derek about South Africa’s case charging Israel with genocide at the ICJ. Check out Spencer’s piece on the matter. Recorded Thursday, January 11, 2024
News - ICJ Israel Genocide Case, US-UK Yemen Strikes, Ecuador Crisis
January 12, 2024 10:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBDanny and Derek come off the hottest year on record with the new year’s cold, hard facts. This week: South Africa brings a genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) (2:39) while Antony Blinken tours the region (8:48); Iraqi PM Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani is looking to request the withdrawal of U.S. forces (19:09); the Israel-Hizbollah border battles continue to escalate (22:23); the U.S. and U.K. launch strikes on Yemen (25:31); rebels in Myanmar take the border c...
E130 - Kissinger and Nixon in Southeast Asia w/ Carolyn Eisenberg
January 09, 2024 10:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBDanny and Derek welcome Carolyn Eisenberg, professor of history at Hofstra University, to explore Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon’s joint pursuit of war in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and 70s. Using Carolyn’s book Fire and Rain as a guide, the group gets into the duo’s relationship, their aims in escalating conflict in the region while pursuing diplomacy with China and the Soviet Union, military events like Operation Lam Son 719, and what this story reveals about U.S. foreign relations. ...
Bonus - The History of the Kurds, Ep. 5 w/ Djene Bajalan
January 07, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutes - 5.7 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com We’re back into our History of the Kurds series with Djene Bajalan, associate professor of history at Missouri State University. In this episode, the group explores changes in Kurdish nationalism during and after World War II (i.e. when it began to be framed in the context of decolonization), 1950s and 60s Kurdish politics in Iraq and Turkey, and the co…
Free Bonus - Global Radicalism and the Mexican Revolution w/ Christina Heatherton
January 05, 2024 10:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBThe news roundup returns next week, so in the meantime we thought we’d share our conversation with Christina Heatherton, Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College, Connecticut. Her book Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution covers the Mexican Revolution as an international story, something that galvanized radical organizers of the era to fight global capitalism in new ways. The discussion broaches Dubois framing the color line ...
Special - Escalations in the Middle East
January 03, 2024 21:17 - 3 minutes - 4.17 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek give subscribers an update on the recent events in the Middle East, including today’s blasts in Iran at a memorial for slain general Qasem Soleimani, Tuesday’s strike on a Hamas leader in southern Beirut, Israel’s recent strike in Damascus, and South Africa’s petition at the ICJ to declare the situation in Gaza a genocide. Recorded Wednes…
E129 - Hope at the Brink w/ Jeffrey Lewis
January 03, 2024 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBJeffrey Lewis, professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies on the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Faculty, joins Danny and Derek to discuss his new podcast The Reason We’re All Still Here, which covers scientists, analysts, and idealists who have gone above and beyond in the name of peace and diplomacy when state actors fail to do so. This discussion focuses on the podcast itself as well as questions about Marx’s theory of alienation, the hope of changing the massive struct...
Bonus - Fashion, Women, and Power w/ Denise Rall
December 31, 2023 10:01 - 4 minutes - 5.33 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Denise N. Rall, adjunct research fellow at Southern Cross University in Australia, joins Danny and Derek to discuss the relationship between fashion, women and power. Topics include the origins of the fashion industry, sartorial diplomacy, figures like Elizabeth II and Michelle Obama, and the power suit. Be sure to check out Denise’s book Fashion, Women,…
Free Bonus - Soviet Material Culture in Cuba and India w/ Sudha Rajagopalan
December 29, 2023 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBDanny and Derek sit down with Sudha Rajagopalan, Senior Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, to discuss her book Journeys of Soviet Things, an oral history of socialist globalization focusing on the journeys of Cold War era Soviet objects in Cuba and India. The conversation explores why Sudha focused on banal objects, what Soviet-made household technologies meant to people in Cuba and India, people’s views of American-produced goods of the time, whether a transna...
E128 - The Vietnam War in the Pacific World w/ Brian Cuddy and Fredrik Logevall
December 26, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBDanny and Derek chat with Brian Cuddy, lecturer in security studies at Macquarie University, and Fredrik Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, about the eponymous collection of essays they co-edited, which examines the lasting impact of the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia and the wider Pacific. They discuss how the regional dynamics shaped the course of the war, what taking a regional perspective illuminates, the current state of the pol...
Bonus - The Medievalist's Guide to Christmas w/ Eleanor Janega
December 23, 2023 17:27 - 5 minutes - 6.73 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back to the podcast Eleanor Janega, medieval historian, author, and broadcaster, to get down to brass tacks: What is Christmas? They discuss its practice in early and medieval Christian societies, mummers’ plays and gambling, Saint Nicholas providing dowries and resurrecting boys killed for their meat, the post-Reformation treatm…
News - Gaza War, Houthi Red Sea Response, North Korea ICBM
December 21, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBDanny and Derek amble across the finish line of 2023. This week: a Gaza update including the latest UN resolution, ceasefire talks, and a potential Geneva conference (1:15); the West/North Atlantic formally responds to Houthi actions in the Red Sea (8:50); General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi wins re-election (13:22); continued fighting in Myanmar (14:29); another ICBM test from the DPRK/North Korea (15:47); the RSF captures another city in Sudan (19:39); a possible resurgence of piracy in Somalia (...
Special - The 2023 Gaza War, Ep. 20 w/ Dalia Hatuqa
December 20, 2023 01:10 - 29 minutes - 27 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Derek welcomes back Dalia Hatuqa, a journalist specializing in Palestinian-Israeli affairs, to discuss developments in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel proper over the past couple of weeks. Then Danny and Derek give a news update for subscribers. Recorded Tuesday, December 19, 2023
UNLOCKED - The Christmas Truce of World War I w/ Terri Blom Crocker
December 19, 2023 18:59 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBMerry (early) Christmas! Danny and Derek speak with historian Terri Blom Crocker to discuss the reality of the mythologized Christmas Truce of 1914, when soldiers in World War I made various agreements to cease fighting. Check out Terri's book The Christmas Truce: Myth, Memory, and the First World War! Originally published on Christmas 2021 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/s...
E127 - The Pahlavi Petro-State w/ Gregory Brew
December 19, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBAt AP headquarters, nothing brings holiday cheer quite like oil, so Danny and Derek are back with Gregory Brew, analyst at Eurasia Group in energy and Iran, to discuss Iran’s postwar “petro-state” period. They get into the country’s trajectory leading up to the 1953 coup, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his relationship with the U.S., the 1963 White Revolution, how oil revenue supported industrialization, middle class growth, and state expansion, the rise of the clerical opposition to Pahlav...
Bonus - Queer Germany, Ep. 10 w/ Samuel Huneke
December 17, 2023 15:07 - 3 minutes - 3.65 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek sit down for one last time with Samuel Huneke, assistant professor of history at George Mason University, to discuss queer life in Germany from the 18th century through the Cold War. This episode focuses on the 1980s and the AIDS crisis, the different ways East and West Germany framed and dealt with it, the effect of the Soviet Union’s c…
News - Gaza War, Armenia-Azerbaijan Prisoner Exchange, Myanmar Ceasefire in Sight
December 15, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBSunny Danny tees up Iceman Derek. This week: an update on the grim situation in Gaza (0:59); the Yemeni Houthis respond with attacks in the Red Sea (15:13); the Egyptian presidential election (18:16); an Armenia-Azerbaijan prisoner exchange (19:55); a possible ceasefire in Myanmar (22:46); an actual ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (24:31); a Ukraine update (27:05); a Venezuela-Guyana update (33:34); and the conclusion of the COP28 climate conference (35:41). Recorde...
E126 - How the Soviet Jew Was Made w/ Sasha Senderovich
December 12, 2023 15:50 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBDanny and Derek are joined by Sasha Senderovich, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Washington, for a discussion of his book How the Soviet Jew Was Made. They explore the background of Jews in the Pale of Settlement and lands that later made up the USSR, the role of the Jew in the Bolshevik imagination, Yiddish language culture and figures like David Bergelson, the role of the pogrom to Jews of the Soviet Union, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the fa...
Bonus - Queer Germany, Ep. 9 w/ Samuel Huneke
December 10, 2023 10:00 - 3 minutes - 4.05 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny welcomes back Samuel Huneke, assistant professor of history at George Mason University, to discuss queer life in Germany from the 18th century through the Cold War. This episode picks up in the late 1960s with the repealing of Paragraph 175 in West Germany, the proliferation of queer media in the 1970s, the racial dynamics of the gay rights moveme…
UNLOCKED - The History of the Maccabees w/ Joseph Scales
December 09, 2023 22:39 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBChag Sameach! Danny and Derek are joined by independent scholar Joseph Scales to talk about the history of Hanukkah. They discuss the rivalry between the Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires that preceded the conflict; the Maccabean/Hasmonean revolt and the family's ascension to power within Judea; the Judean expansion; and much more. Originally published November 27, 2021 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.am...
AP x Nonzero - The Gaza War and the Palestine Question w/ Robert Wright
December 09, 2023 16:33 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Welcome to episode two of the collaboration between AP and Nonzero Newsletter! For those who missed the first one, we decided to join forces every couple of months and put out crossover episodes between the two projects. Paid subscribers get an extra 40 minutes of discussion plus a discounted membership to Nonzero— just scroll below the paywall near the bottom of the description, where you’ll also find ...
News - Gaza Bombardment Update, Guinea-Bissau Coup Attempt, Venezuela-Guyana Tensions
December 07, 2023 22:27 - 37 minutes - 34 MBDanny and Derek deliver the goods a day early. This week: an update on Gaza (0:36); more Ansar Allah (Houthi) activity off of Yemen’s coast in the Red Sea (11:46); Italy withdraws from the China-led Belt and Road Initiative (15:04); South Korea launches a spy satellite (16:51); an attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau (19:35); a Russia-Ukraine update featuring prisoner exchange talks with the U.S. (23:03) and dwindling funds on Ukraine’s behalf (24:56); Venezuela-Guyana tensions on the rise over t...
E125 - Rising Ethiopia-Eritrea Tensions w/ Mohamed Kheir Omer
December 05, 2023 10:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBDanny and Derek chat with Mohamed Kheir Omer, a researcher and writer based in Oslo, Norway and former member of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), about the current escalating tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea. They get into the historical background of the two countries’ frought relationship, the respective roles of Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed, Eritrean support of Ethiopia in the Tigray War, where the current conflict in Ethiopia’s Amhara...
Bonus - Ageless Napoleon w/ Everett Rummage
December 03, 2023 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.8 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Everett Rummage, the man behind The Age of Napoleon podcast, joins Danny and Derek to break down Ridley Scott’s new film on Monsieur Bonaparte. They discuss Napoleon’s (English coded) portrayal, aspects his life the film chose to focus on, the centrality of Josephine in Napoleon on film, what the film gets right, conflates, or completely fabricates, and…
Special - The Death of Henry Kissinger, Ep. 2 w/ Greg Grandin
December 01, 2023 20:16 - 5 minutes - 5.81 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek speak with Greg Grandin, author of Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman, about the life and legacy of Henry Kissinger.
News - Ukraine Slogs On, Dutch Election, UN Climate Summit
December 01, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MBThe Tryptophan Twins return from the holiday to bring you up to speed. This week: an update on Gaza (0:42); Kuwait’s emir has a brief health scare (5:50); the U.S. accuses the Indian government of complicity in a murder plot in New York (6:59); the DPRK (North Korea) puts a spy satellite into orbit (9:32); a failed coup attempt in Sierra Leone (12:43); far-right populist Geert Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) wins the Dutch parliamentary elections (14:54); a Ukraine update (19:37); Henry Kissing...
Special - The Death of Henry Kissinger, Ep. 1 w/ Ben Burgis
December 01, 2023 04:19 - 3 minutes - 3.98 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Ben Burgis, host of the Give Them an Argument podcast, share their immediate thoughts upon the expiration of the infamous statesman. Check out GTAA on Patreon and YouTube. Stay tuned for a more in-depth follow-up discussion with Greg Grandin, author of Kissinger’s Shadow, coming tomorrow (Friday, December 1).
Special - The 2023 Gaza War, Ep. 19
November 29, 2023 01:03 - 3 minutes - 3.47 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek give subscribers a news update on the situation in Israel/Palestine, including the temporary pause in (some) hostilities, Ansar Allah/Houthi actions, and more. Check out the rest of our specials on the current conflict. Recorded Tuesday, November 28, 2023
E124 - The Making of Silicon Valley, Ep. 3 w/ Margaret O'Mara
November 28, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBDanny and Derek welcome back to the pod Margaret O’Mara, historian and author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, to conclude the story tracing Silicon Valley’s rise until the 21st century. The discussion starts in the late 70s/early 80s and covers the rise of biotech and the personal computer, competition from Japan, government interventions like SEMATECH and the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 (HPCA), the dot-com boom (and bust), and more. Check out the rest of...
Bonus - JFK and Vietnam w/ Marc J. Selverstone
November 26, 2023 10:01 - 4 minutes - 5.05 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome to the pod Marc J. Selverstone, head of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, to discuss what John F. Kennedy might have done had he lived and oversaw America’s involvement in Vietnam. Using his book The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam as a launching …
Free Bonus - The Communist Meownifesto w/ Leigh Claire La Berge
November 24, 2023 10:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBDanny and Derek speak with Leigh Claire La Berge, author of Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary. They discuss Leigh Claire’s unique approach to Marxist critique through the lens of cats, feline usage in the lexicon from the royal (Richard the Lionheart) to the proletarian (“wildcat strike”), how our feline friends help illuminate watershed moments in the advent and development of capitalism, and more. Be sure to pounce on a copy of the book! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss...
Re-Post - This Land is Their Land w/ David Silverman
November 22, 2023 19:21 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBDanny and Derek welcome David Silverman, professor of Native American, Colonial American, and American racial history at George Washington University, for a discussion of the historical Thanksgiving holiday. They get into the the origin and proliferation of the holiday’s myth, the historical Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, the Wampanoag Indians, their culture, politics, and relationship with the English settlers, who and what the holiday serves in 2022 America, and more. Be sure to grab a cop...
RE-POST - We Solve the JFK Assassination Mystery, Pt. 2 w/ Aaron Good
November 22, 2023 15:39 - 3 minutes - 3.65 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek continue the conversation with Aaron Good of American Exception on the JFK assassination. Check out the first part here. Originally published Dec 18, 2021
Unlocked - We Solve the JFK Assassination Mystery, Pt. 1 w/ Aaron Good
November 22, 2023 15:20 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBDanny and Derek speak with the political scientist Aaron Good, author of American Exception: Empire and the Deep State and the new podcast American Exception, about the JFK assassination. They delve into the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination, the idea of Kennedy as a "peacenik," why it's important to study the assassination, and much more. Fredrik Logevall's essay "Kennedy and What Might Have Been" can be found in The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Ken Burns and Geoffr...
Special - The 2023 Argentina Presidential Election w/ Andre Pagliarini
November 21, 2023 20:40 - 3 minutes - 3.46 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back Andre Pagliarini, assistant professor of history at Hampden-Sydney College, for a breakdown of how so-called “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina, what he can actually enact of his, er, ambitious plans, what this means for the country, and more. Recorded Tuesday, November 21, 2023
E123 - The Making of Silicon Valley, Ep. 2 w/ Margaret O'Mara
November 21, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBDanny welcomes back to the pod Margaret O’Mara, historian and author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, to continue the story of how Silicon Valley came to be. They pick up in the midst of the Space Race, touching on the sources of tech capital the 1950s and 1960s, how the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) reshapes Stanford, figures like Stewart Brand and Steve Jobs, the transition from 60s counterculture to 70s “founder culture”, and more. Check out the first ...
Bonus - All Hailbag the Mailbag 7: The Musical
November 19, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutes - 5.3 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Disclaimer: There are no musical numbers. At long last, Producer Jake returns to tee up subscriber queries for Danny and Derek. In this edition, we explore whether nations “deserve” to exist, if Mearsheimer has stumbled onto something about China, the notion of military intervention on behalf of Mother Nature, what the gang thinks about the show “The Ame…
Special - The 2023 Gaza War, Ep. 18 w/ Mariam Barghouti
November 17, 2023 18:28 - 21 minutes - 20 MBDanny and Derek speak with Mariam Barghouti, a journalist and writer based in Ramallah, about where things stand in Palestine. In addition to the situation in Gaza, they catch up on what’s been happening in the West Bank, particularly since October 7. Recorded Friday, November 17, 2023 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe