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 Coup in Gabon w/ Nathaniel Powell
September 01, 2023 18:16 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBDerek sits down with Nathaniel Powell, West Africa analyst at Oxford Analytica and honorary researcher at Lancaster University’s Centre for War and Diplomacy, for a discussion of Wednesday’s coup in Gabon. Nathaniel gets into the background of ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba and his family, what we know about the junta, the domestic and international reaction, the possible role of US military training, how France fits into the equation, and more. Check out Nathaniel’s book France’...
News - Weakened Palestinian Authority, Niger Expels French Ambassador, Coup in Gabon
September 01, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBDanny plays Ed McMahon to Derek’s...You don’t know who these people are, anyway. This week: the Palestian Authority continues to lose control in the West Bank (0:30); an update on the Sudan conflict (5:22); Niger expels the French ambassador while Algeria tries to play peacemaker (7:58); the coup in Gabon (11:34); Russia makes a shock announcement about Wagner chief Prigozhin’s death (17:14); Ukraine may possess long-range weapons and reaches a potential breakthrough in the counteroffensive ...
Special - The American Left and Latin America w/ Andre Pagliarini
August 31, 2023 20:58 - 3 minutes - 3.58 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek speak with Andre Pagliarini, assistant professor of history at Hampden-Sydney College, about the American left’s relationship with leaders and movements in Latin America in light of the recent trip several progressive legislators made to Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. They discuss the aims of this trip, what was actually accomplished, what…
E112 - Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe, Pt. 1 w/ Emily Greble
August 29, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBDanny and Derek are joined by Emily Greble, professor of history at Vanderbilt University, to discuss the story of Balkan Muslims’ place in the modern European project. In this first part, the group touches on the Balkans’ frequent exclusion from notions of Europe, how centering Islam contributes to the larger European story, the effect of rapid political change on Balkan Muslims beginning in the late 19th century, the “Muslim legal other”, and more leading to the end of the Ottoman Empire. ...
Special - BRICS Primer and the 2023 Summit w/ Alexandra Sharp
August 28, 2023 09:00 - 2 minutes - 3.37 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Derek chats with Alexandra Sharp, writer at Foreign Policy’s daily World Brief newsletter, about the BRICS political and economic bloc, which just wrapped up its annual summit last week in South Africa. Alexandra gets into the origin of BRICS, the main issues broached at the summit, what the newly added countries (which double its size) both bring to th…
Bonus - The History of the Philippines, Ep. 3 w/ Lisandro Claudio
August 27, 2023 09:01 - 2 minutes - 3.4 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek continue their discussion with Lisandro Claudio, associate professor at UC Berkeley, on the history of the Philippines. It’s the dawn of the 20th century and the beginning of American colonial rule. The group touches on William Howard Taft’s tenure as governor of the archipelago, Filipino roles in colonial politics, the Moro Wars on Mind…
Special - The Death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Pt. 2 w/ Mark Ames
August 25, 2023 21:27 - 3 minutes - 3.49 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back Mark Ames, co-host of the Radio War Nerd podcast, to further discuss the death of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin this week. Mark helps try to make sense of why Prigozhin and Wagner’s top brass left themselves so vulnerable, contextualizes Prigozhin’s place among Russian military leadership like (former) General Sergey…
News - BRICS Summit, India Moon Landing, Fukushima Waste Release
August 25, 2023 09:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBEveryone wants to get to the Moon, but little do they know that Danny and Derek are the stars in their eyes. This week’s news: the 2023 BRICS summit sees the bloc expanding significantly (0:34); India makes a historic lunar landing (5:19); meanwhile, the DPRK has a disastrous satellite launch (7:11); Japan begins releasing waste water from the Fukushima disaster into the Pacific (8:46); an update on Sudan, where the militant group the Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North has entered the ...
Special - The Death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Pt. 1
August 24, 2023 00:36 - 2 minutes - 2.56 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek jumped on the mic to catch us all up with the latest in Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death in a plane crash earlier today. Recorded August 23, 2023
E111 - The Petrostate w/ Emma Ashford
August 22, 2023 09:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBEmma Ashford, senior fellow at the Stimson Center, joins Danny and Derek for a discussion on petrostates. They define what exactly “petrostate” means, the different ways these countries may use their resources to affect geopolitics, the intersection of oil wealth and personalized autocratic systems of government, the future of these states in the era of climate collapse, and more. Be sure to grab a copy of Emma’s book Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates. Recorded ...
Special - Biden's China Tech Controls w/ Kevin Klyman
August 21, 2023 09:00 - 2 minutes - 2.62 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Kevin Klyman, researcher at Harvard University’s Belfer Center, picked up the red phone for the dedicated AP hotline, so Danny and Derek knew it was time for a special. This time, it’s about Biden’s recent executive order regarding outbound investment controls on China which ban a slew of tech relating to AI, semiconductors, and quantum information. The…
Bonus - The History of the Philippines, Ep. 2 w/ Lisandro Claudio
August 20, 2023 09:00 - 2 minutes - 3.41 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek continue their discussion with Lisandro Claudio, associate professor at UC Berkeley, on the history of the Philippines. We’re now at the end of the 19th century, the time of the Philippines’ independence struggle. The crew touches on La Liga Filipina and its revolutionary successor groups, the Philippine Revolution itself, figures like J…
News - Niger Intervention Looms, Argentina Presidential Primary, Russian Ruble Troubles
August 18, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBLeading the world in “Derek” podcasts, it’s the great Derek Davison (and Danny) with the news. This week: Saudia Arabia hits a speed bump in attempts to normalize with Israel (0:31) while the Kingdom continues successful talks with Iran (2:47); details emerge from the US-Iran prisoner swap (4:22); the DPRK ramps up activity in its defense industry (7:10) while claiming the American soldier who recently defected was disillusioned (9:14); an update on the Sudan conflict (11:26); promising deve...
Special - APSA Crosses the Line w/ Erin Pineda
August 17, 2023 15:52 - 2 minutes - 3.42 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Erin Pineda, political theorist and professor at Smith College, brings Danny and Derek up to speed on the controversy surrounding the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) decision to hold its flagship conference in Los Angeles on Labor Day Weekend despite an ongoing hotel workers’ strike and requests by UNITE HERE Local 11 (representing over …
Special - The Hawaii Fires w/ Noelani Ahia
August 16, 2023 20:37 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBDanny and Derek sit down with Noelani Ahia, a Kānaka Maoli community organizer in Maui, to discuss last week’s devastating fire that destroyed much of the city of Lahaina. They discuss the present situation there, the role of the American government’s resource and water management in exacerbating the conditions leading to the fires, the struggle of native Hawaiians, how climate change is affecting Hawaii, and more. Donate to the Maui Mutual Aid Fund now to help Lahaina and its people recove...
E110 - The Other Oil w/ Jonathan Robins
August 15, 2023 09:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBIt’s Commodity Day here at American Prestige, so Danny and Derek decided to celebrate by speaking with Jonathan Robins, associate professor of history at Michigan Tech, about a ubiquitous product that somehow flies under the radar: palm oil. They touch on the history of oil palm cultivation, the different uses of the oil itself, its role in the story of global capitalism, commodity fetishization, the ecological impacts of oil palm cultivation, and more. Be sure to grab a copy of Jonathan’s...
Bonus - Fascism in Latin America w/ Luis Herrán Ávila
August 13, 2023 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.56 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome Luis Herrán Ávila, assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico, to talk about, you guessed it, fascism in Latin America. They define its European forms vs those in Latin American countries, discuss the ideology’s influence on groups like the Tacuara Nationalist Movement (TNM) in Argentina, Nazi refugees’ collab…
News - US-Iran Tension in the Gulf, Imran Khan Arrested, Ecuador Presidential Candidate Fernando Villavicencio Assassinated
August 11, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBYour news roundup for the start of August…with Style. This week: climate collapse continues with heat records shattered and more of the Antarctic lost (0:35); the most recent leader of ISIS is killed in Syria (2:22) and Damascus agrees to open up humanitarian corridors (4:42); US-Saudi-Israel talks move along (6:59); in Iran news, the US deploys “deterrent” troops to the Red Sea (9:07) while Iran agrees to the release several US prisoners (12:09) and sees the Saudi embassy reopening in Tehra...
E109 - Power and Struggle in Modern Mexico w/ Dawn Marie Paley
August 08, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBDanny and Derek speak with Dawn Marie Paley, investigative journalist and editor of Ojalá, a new online weekly dedicated to in-depth, independent coverage of Latin America in English and Spanish. They discuss a range of social challenges in modern Mexico, touching on the wave of disappearances dating back to Calderon’s so-called War on Drugs, how the drug war is a tool to assert social and territorial control, the role of global capital, US-Mexico security and migration policy, organized mov...
Bonus - Capitalism: Not a Good Idea w/ Quinn Slobodian
August 06, 2023 14:17 - 3 minutes - 3.45 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek sit down with Quinn Slobodian, professor of history at Wellesley College, for a discussion of neoliberal globalism and capitalist extremism. They touch on Quinn’s own intellectual history, the dream of capitalism, the birth of neoliberalism, the Austrian and Chicago Schools, libertarianism, and more. Check out Quinn’s books Crack-Up Capit…
News - Niger Coup Backlash, Ukraine Counteroffensive Progress, Haiti Bracing for UN Intervention
August 04, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBDanny and Derek slide on down to deliver the news with the grace of a Boston cop. This week: the Biden administration continues to push for Saudi Arabia-Israel normalization (0:33), an update on the humanitarian situation in Sudan (4:56), Niger’s military junta takes shape and faces a possible ECOWAS intervention (7:10), Ukraine sees some results from the counteroffensive as Saudi Arabia prepares to host peace talks (14:02), tensions between Poland and Belarus (17:59), Brazil sees a drop in ...
E108 - Constitutional War Powers w/ Katherine Yon Ebright
August 01, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBDanny and Derek welcome Katherine Yon Ebright, counsel with the Brennan Center’s Liberty & National Security Program, to the podcast for a discussion of the past and present of US constitutional war powers. They touch on the Mexican-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Korean War, congressional resistance to the expansion of war powers, security cooperation authorities, the AUMF, and more. Check out Katherine’s recent report on the matter, “Secret War”, her piece in Just Security on the ...
Bonus - The Real Oppenheimer w/ David Hecht
July 30, 2023 09:01 - 3 minutes - 3.94 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek sit down with David Hecht, associate professor of history and chair of the history department at Bowdoin College, to talk about Oppenheimer, both the film and man himself. They talk about his politics, the role of his Jewish identity, his accomplishments as a physicist, his personal life, the relationship between scientists and the milit…
Special - The Coup in Niger w/ Alex Thurston
July 28, 2023 17:44 - 3 minutes - 3.48 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Derek welcomes back Alex Thurston, assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati, for a discussion of this week’s coup in Niger, led by General Abdourahamane Tiani and which ousted President Mohamed Bazoum. Check out Alex’s piece in Responsible Statecraft to learn more! Recorded Friday, July 28, 2023
News - Israeli Judicial Overhaul, Ethiopia Food Crisis, Niger Coup
July 28, 2023 11:57 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBAriana Grande hasn’t broken up Danny and Derek…yet. This week: another grim climate update (0:31), the Knesset in Israel votes on the first part of the judicial overhaul package (2:38), Cambodia holds an election and Hun Sen steps down (5:42), a Sudan conflict update (8:22), the food crisis in Ethiopia (10:09), a coup in Niger (12:06), a Ukraine update (17:24), the general election in Spain (20:30), and a New Cold War update featuring John Kerry’s climate talks in China (23:13), the Chinese...
Special - The Israeli Judicial Overhaul w/ Udi Greenberg
July 27, 2023 09:01 - 2 minutes - 3.29 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back Udi Greenberg, associate professor of modern European history at Dartmouth, to help us understand the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul package, the initial legislation for which was passed on Monday. They discuss its implications, the influence of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, why this is happening now, the domestic and inte…
Special - The 2023 Spanish General Election w/ Nando Vila
July 26, 2023 17:06 - 2 minutes - 3.41 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny speaks with Nando Vila, of the Shoot the Messenger podcast, about Sunday’s general election in Spain, including the issues at play, how it was something of a victory for the left, and more.
Special - The Supreme Court in International Perspective w/ Aziz Rana
July 25, 2023 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.43 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny welcomes back Aziz Rana, the provost’s distinguished fellow at Boston College, for a discussion of the US Supreme Court from a comparative international perspective. They get into the Court’s domestic role, when and how it assumed an anti-democratic function, how it compares with other supreme courts around the world, the possibility for reform, a…
E107 - Climate Violence w/ Noah Gordon
July 25, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBDanny and Derek are joined by Noah Gordon, acting co-director of the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to talk about how violent nonstate actors (VNSAs) might be empowered by climate change and the responses to it. They get into how climate change will likely affect state capabilities, the strategic implications of increasingly inhospitable areas, how the wealthy might be insulated from VNSAs, resource conflicts, the role of c...
Bonus - The 1953 Iranian Coup D'État w/ Gregory Brew
July 23, 2023 13:01 - 3 minutes - 3.68 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back Gregory Brew, analyst at Eurasia Group in energy and Iran, for a discussion of the 1953 ousting of then-prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran. They discuss the background of Iran’s oil history starting with the 1901 D’Arcy Concession, Great Britain’s interest in and control of the commodity, the Tudeh party, the Abadan C…
News - Climate Crisis, Sudan Conflict, Peru Protests
July 21, 2023 08:54 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBDanny and Derek power through the heat to hit the headlines. This week: a new UN global poverty report (0:54), more depressing climate news (2:47), the UN ends Syrian aid operation (5:02), a Sudan update (6:40), protests in Peru (10:30), a defection to North Korea (12:28) and a ballistic missile test (13:45), Russia cancels Black Sea grain deal (14:40), Putin decides to skip August BRICS summit (18:20), Wagner apparently arrives in Belarus (20:25), a Ukraine war update (22:20) and a NATO sum...
E106 - American Grand Strategy Reconsidered w/ Christopher McKnight Nichols
July 18, 2023 13:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBDanny and Derek welcome back Christopher McKnight Nichols, Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies and professor of history at Ohio State University, to the program for a chat about rethinking American grand strategy. They talk about what exactly “grand strategy” is, grand strategy vs. first principle, the role of WWII and the end of the Cold War in US grand strategy, PEPFAR and the Bush administration, climate change vs other low-success grand strategies, technology and grand...
Bonus - What Was the New Left?, Ep. 4 w/ Terry Renaud
July 16, 2023 13:01 - 3 minutes - 3.44 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny welcomes back Terry Renaud, assistant instructional professor in social sciences at the University of Chicago, to the pod to conclude the series on “new lefts”. They discuss the legacy of the 1960s in the American imagination, criticisms of the new left movements of that decade, neoliberalism and the “‘Me Decade”, how the US higher education syste…
UNLOCKED - I Love the Smell of Gaming in the Morning w/ Clayton Kozan
July 14, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBNote: Team AP is on the road this week, so no news. Instead, please enjoy this bonus episode on gaming! Danny speaks with Clayton Kozan, a graduate student at Texas Tech University who analyzes how the Vietnam War is portrayed in video games. From 1980s-era games that have you playing as a lone wolf; to Call of Duty: Black Ops, which makes the Vietnam War about Nazis (??) and Soviets; to the more recent When I Was Young, which focuses not only on combat but the social experience of being a ...
Bonus - What Was the New Left?, Ep. 3 w/ Terry Renaud
July 09, 2023 13:01 - 3 minutes - 3.45 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny welcomes Terry Renaud, assistant instructional professor in social sciences at the University of Chicago, back to the pod to continue the series on “new lefts”. This episode focuses on what most people know as “The New Left”, i.e. the new left movements of the 1950s and 1960s. They compare the new lefts of postwar decades vs. those in the prewar y…
News - IDF Attacks Jenin, Prigozhin on the Move, Rising Ocean Temperatures
July 07, 2023 13:40 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBDanny and Derek are back with the #1 news digest in Rákosszentmihály. This week: climate news featuring skyrocketing ocean temperatures and the return of El Niño (0:34), Israeli military strikes in the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp (2:22), Saudi Arabia and Russia cut oil production (6:11), Afghanistan sees more restrictions on women and a grim aid forecast (7:53), Rapid Support Forces gradually gain ground in Sudan (11:07), the government and ELN guerillas cease offensive operations in Colo...
E104 - Why Are We in Ukraine and More w/ Christopher Layne
July 04, 2023 14:23 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBDanny welcomes Christopher Layne, professor of international affairs and Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, to discuss the recent article he co-authored with Benjamin Schwarz for Harper’s, “Why Are We in Ukraine?” They get into the discourse around the conflict among the public and international relations (IR) scholars, the history and nature of the field of IR, the role of NATO expan...
Bonus - Art, the Left, and the Manifesto w/ China Miéville
July 02, 2023 14:50 - 3 minutes - 3.56 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome author China Miéville, whose most recent book is A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto. They discuss the role of the artist and intellectual in 2023, the genre of manifesto and potential for enacting change, labor relations without a workplace, private vs. personal property, criticism of Marx from a left perspective, ps…
News - Wagner Rebellion, Greek Election, Study on Rainforest Loss
June 30, 2023 12:56 - 41 minutes - 38 MBDanny and Derek are back with another news roundup for all! This week: more updates on the Wagner uprising in Russia (0:34), Sweden hits a speed bump in its path to NATO membership (10:53), a Ukraine update (17:04), conservative Mitsotakis wins re-election in Greece (19:46), Biden cuts funding for West Bank institutions (21:27), a Sudan update (22:39), the UN peacekeeping operation in Mali looks to be shut down (25:54), a new UN report on the the US’s human rights violations in Guantanamo Ba...
E103 - What's Happening in the Indo-Pacific? w/ Kelly Grieco and Jennifer Kavanagh
June 27, 2023 14:15 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBDanny and Derek welcome Kelly Grieco, senior fellow in the Reimagining U.S. Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center, and Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss the US’s presence in the Indo-Pacific. The group defines what exactly constitutes the “Indo-Pacific”, touches on how the Beltway sees the US’s role in the region vs what it is actually doing there, how China is perceived in the region, the ...
Special - The Wagner Affair w/ Mark Ames
June 26, 2023 18:10 - 3 minutes - 3.51 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome Mark Ames, co-host of Radio War Nerd, to the show to analyze the weekend’s events in Russia involving the Wagner Group, speculating on what Prigozhin’s aim was, what this all might suggest about the Russian state and power structure, Wagner’s future, the “Russia experts” who mobilized around the incident, and more. Recorded Monday…
Special - What Just Happened in Russia
June 25, 2023 17:09 - 3 minutes - 3.51 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek give an update and analysis of the events in Russia yesterday involving the Wagner Group. Check out the special from yesterday! Recorded Sunday morning, June 25, 2023
Bonus - Hyperpolitics w/ Anton Jäger
June 25, 2023 15:28 - 2 minutes - 3.07 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome Anton Jäger, historian of political thought, to the program to discuss the end of mass politics, or “hyperpolitics”, as he calls it. They touch on why this is a major issue for the left, the feasibility of organizing under the present structural conditions, Occupy Wall Street, where there is room for movement in the next decade, …
Special - What's Happening in Russia
June 24, 2023 17:55 - 2 minutes - 3.09 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek give an update on the situation with the Wagner Group in Russia. Recorded midday EST, Saturday, June 24, 2023
News - West Bank Violence, Ukraine Counteroffensive, Blinken in China
June 23, 2023 15:30 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBDanny and Derek return with absolutely no submersible-related news, and that’s a guarantee. This week: flights resume between Yemen and Saudi Arabia (0:31), the IDF and settlers clash with Palestinians in the West Bank (2:19), Mali wants UN peacekeepers removed (6:22), a Sudan update (9:53), NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg stays in power (14:59), a Ukraine update featuring an African peace delegation (16:00), the Ukrainian counteroffensive (18:29), and a Crimea bridge attack (20:33),...
E102 - A Brief History of American Jews w/ Emily Tamkin
June 20, 2023 14:18 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBDanny and Derek welcome journalist Emily Tamkin to the podcast to discuss American Jewish identity and politics over the past 100 years. They get into the salience of the term “Bad Jew”, how Jews fit into American social and legal definitions of whiteness, how American Jews have grappled with the Zionist project, generational shifts among American Jews, and more. Be sure to grab a copy of Emily’s book Bad Jews, and check out her recent article for +972, “‘A moment of disillusionment’: Ameri...
Bonus - LIV Free or Die Hard w/ David Roth and Chris Thompson
June 18, 2023 15:54 - 3 minutes - 3.54 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome David Roth and Chris Thompson of Defector to the pod for a discussion of the PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger. They discuss the 2022 launch of LIV Golf, the initial competition between the two entities, the Saudi Public Investment Fund, the antitrust questions surrounding the merger, what exactly LIV’s brand is, Saudia Arabia’s motives b…
Special - Meno Male Che Silvio C'è w/ Luca Falciola
June 16, 2023 22:26 - 2 minutes - 2.3 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome Luca Falciola, lecturer in history at Columbia University, to the pod for a discussion of the life and legacy of Silvio Berlusconi. They discuss his life as a property developer, his foray into politics, his terms as prime minister, his provocative behavior and how it was received in Italy, and more. Check out Luca’s book Up Again…
News- US-Iran Talks, Sudan Conflict's Civilian Toll, Nord Stream Investigation
June 16, 2023 15:35 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBWe went out in the AP Eyewitness News van only to find we’re not a local news show. This week: low-key US-Iran talks in Oman (0:32), a cyber attack on US government servers (6:09), the price paid by civilians in the Sudan Conflict (7:21), the long-awaited Ukraine counteroffensive (13:14), the Nord Stream investigation (15:06), Sweden inching toward NATO membership (18:05), Colombia peace talks with the ELN (20:46), and a New Cold War update featuring the US rejoining UNESCO (24:01), the US p...
E101 - Semiconductor Kind of Life w/ Kevin Klyman
June 13, 2023 12:29 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBDanny and Derek welcome back Kevin Klyman, researcher at Harvard University’s Belfer Center, for a discussion of the technology arms race between the US/EU and China. They discuss China’s role as the leading hi-tech manufacturer in the world, de-risking and export controls, the CHIPS and Science Act, the dynamic with Taiwan and its semiconductor industry, the advent of AI and quantum computing, and more. Check out Kevin’s two recent pieces on the matter: "The EU joins Washington's camp...