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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Bonus - What Was the New Left?, Ep. 2 w/ Terry Renaud
June 11, 2023 14:24 - 3 minutes - 3.58 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny welcomes back to the pod Terry Renaud, assistant instructional professor in social sciences at the University of Chicago, to continue the series on “new lefts”. This episode picks up during and after WWII in Germany, touching on the “inner exile” experienced by some German intellectuals during the Nazi regime, wartime intelligence work by leftist …
News Roundup - June 9, 2023
June 09, 2023 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBNeither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail, nor wildfire smoke shall keep Danny and Derek from their appointed rounds…giving you the news. This week: a new study on disappearing Arctic ice (0:31), wildfires ravage Canada (3:43), Antony Blinken visits Saudi Arabia (5:58), a Sudan update (9:39), political progress in Libya (12:41), human rights concerns in Ethiopia (13:32), a Ukraine update (15:39), a “soft coup” open letter and progress in ELN talks in Colombia (21:28), a New Cold War update...
E100 - What Was the New Left?, Ep. 1 w/ Terry Renaud
June 06, 2023 14:15 - 44 minutes - 30.2 MBDanny and Derek welcome to the pod Terry Renaud, assistant instructional professor in social sciences at the University of Chicago, for a series on “new lefts”, from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960s. In this first episode, they discuss the forms of alternative left organizations, György Lukács, 1930s German anti-fascist group Neu Beginnen (New Beginning), sexual liberation and transgression of traditional forms, Neu Beginnen’s role in the Spanish Civil War, World War II’...
Bonus - What is the Role of the Media? w/ Osita Nwanevu
June 04, 2023 15:42 - 3 minutes - 3.46 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome to the pod Osita Nwanevu, columnist at The Guardian and contributing editor at The New Republic, to discuss the role of the media in politics. They discuss the disconnect between public opinion and policy, whether independent leftist media has a meaningful impact, the fetishization of manufacturing consent, how power in modern, A…
News Roundup - June 2, 2023
June 02, 2023 13:04 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBDanny is the wind beneath Derek’s wings as they soar through the news. This week: the Turkish presidential election run-off (0:30), new IAEA reports on Iran (4:04), an Afghanistan-Qatar meeting and clashes at the Afghanistan-Iran border (7:20), a DPRK satellite launch falls short (10:34), a Sudan update (13:04), a Russia-Ukraine update with border shelling and drone strikes inside Russia (16:11), unrest in Kosovo (18:04), and a New Cold War update featuring China refusing a defense minister ...
Special - The 2023 Turkish Presidential Election Run-Off w/ Djene Bajalan
May 30, 2023 20:43 - 5 minutes - 5.72 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Derek speaks with Djene Bajalan, associate professor of history at Missouri State University, to recap what happened in Sunday’s Turkish presidential election run-off, the dynamics at play, what to expect moving forward, and more. Check out Djene at This Is Revolution podcast and his new radio program at KSMU Talking History! Recorded Tuesday, May 30, 20…
E99 - Imran Khan w/ Arsalan Khan
May 30, 2023 13:26 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBDanny and Derek welcome to the program Arsalan Khan, assistant professor of anthropology at Union College, for a primer on Imran Khan, Pakistan’s cricket star-turned-prime minister-turned-opposition leader. They discuss his celebrity background, his early ideology, the state of Pakistan in the the 1990s, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), his relationship with the military, activity during the Musharraf government, his term as prime minister, the subsequent no confidence vote, and more. Keep y...
Bonus - Indigenous American Sovereignty and Subjecthood w/ Matthew Kruer
May 28, 2023 14:47 - 5 minutes - 5.74 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome to the podcast Matthew Kruer, assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago, to discuss his essay “Indigenous Subjecthood and White Populism in British America”. The discussion focuses on the American colonies of the 17th and 18th century, touching on the antimony between sovereignty and subjecthood, England’s notio…
News Roundup - May 26, 2023
May 26, 2023 13:53 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBDanny is back to full strength, so he and Derek combined forces to take on…The News. This week: a Sudan ceasefire update (0:30), a Turkey presidential runoff preview (3:41), Iran constructs a new nuclear facility (6:00), a Russia-Ukraine update including a sabotage operation in Russia (10:38), the NYT report on the Kremlin drone strike (13:34), Wagner taking Bakhmut (15:56), and more, and a New Cold War update including the G7 on China (25:03) and the new US-Papua New Guinea defense deal (28...
E98 - Intro to Erdoğan w/ Gönül Tol
May 23, 2023 12:45 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBDanny and Derek welcome Gönül Tol, founding director of the Middle East Institute's Turkey program and author of Erdoğan's War: A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria to discuss Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. They touch on his origins with AKP in the early aughts, his interactions with the military, his relationship with Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad, Erdoğan’s foreign policy, the effect of the Arab Spring on his tenure, how he’s approached “the Kurdish issue”, and more. T...
Bonus - The History of Taiwan, Ep. 4 w/ James Lin
May 21, 2023 17:04 - 5 minutes - 5.82 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back James Lin, assistant professor of international studies at the University of Washington, to conclude their discussion of the history of Taiwan. They pick up in the 1970s with Chiang Kai-shek’s death, democratization, the Tangwai movement, Lee Teng-hui, the Taiwan-PRC relationship in the aughts, Taiwan’s tech sector, and more…
News Roundup - May 19, 2023
May 19, 2023 14:42 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBDanny has been upgraded with new gum implants, enabling him to better yammer on about God knows what while Derek actually educates us on what’s happening. This week: Round 1 of Turkey’s presidential election (0:48), a ceasefire for Gaza (5:21), Imran Khan released on bail in Pakistan (6:40), the Thai general election (9:21), a Sudan update (13:40), deforestation is down in Brazil (16:16), Guillermo Lasso dissolves the national assembly in Ecuador (17:58), Ukraine sees the Black Sea deal rene...
E97 - Vibes of Rome w/ Milo Edwards, Phoebe Roy, and Patrick Wyman
May 16, 2023 12:42 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBDanny and Derek welcome Milo Edwards, Phoebe Roy, and Patrick Wyman, recovering classicists and hosts of Rome, the podcast about HBO’s series Rome. They talk about the development of the show in the early era of prestige TV, the portrayal of the city itself, Vorenus and Pullo, the imaginary of the average Roman, Atia and depictions of Roman femininity, and more. Also be sure to check out Milo and Phoebe’s Seinfeld podcast Masters of our Domain, Phoebe’s internet culture and history podcast...
Bonus - Mother Mary's Day w/ Eleanor Janega
May 14, 2023 13:34 - 5 minutes - 6.28 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Happy Mother’s Day! Danny and Derek welcome Eleanor Janega, co-host of the We’re Not So Different podcast and author of The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society, to discuss one of the great mothers of history: The Virgin Mary. They discuss what actually makes Mary the ultimate medieval mother (despite being from ancient times)…
Special - The 2023 Turkish Presidential Election w/ Djene Bajalan
May 13, 2023 14:07 - 1 hour - 46 MBDerek welcomes back another AP Champion, Djene Bajalan, associate professor of history at Missouri State University, to discuss tomorrow’s presidential election in Turkey. They discuss Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, a “free and fair” election, the political fallout of the 2023 earthquake, how Erdoğan’s strengthening of the presidency plays into things, the stakes for Syrian refugees, and more. Recorded Friday, May 12, 2023 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss t...
Special - Disinformation/Feinstein w/ Ken Klippenstein
May 12, 2023 18:32 - 5 minutes - 5.78 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny welcomes back AP All-Star (and investigative reporter for The Intercept) Ken Klippenstein for another special episode. The first part concerns his article detailing the government’s creation of a disinformation office, the Foreign Malign Influence Center, and its considerable reach. The second part addresses Ken’s recent highlighting of the role o…
News Roundup - May 12, 2023
May 12, 2023 16:08 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBIt’s Danny’s Goose to Derek’s Maverick (sorry Danny)…time for the News Roundup. This week: Syria’s invited back to the Arab League (0:45), fighting in Gaza (5:20), a Sudan update (11:10), a Ukraine update (14:34), the Chilean constitutional assembly election (20:41), and Imran Khan arrested in Pakistan (24:58). Updates since recording: * In Israel/Palestine, there has been one reported Israeli death due to Gaza rocket fire. * In Sudan, both sides of the conflict have agreed to protect ...
E96 - A Broken India w/ Ashoka Mody
May 09, 2023 13:18 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBDanny and Derek welcome to the program Ashoka Mody, Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, to discuss what he sees as democratic and economic breakdowns in India rooted in its post-independence period. They discuss the tenure of Jawaharlal Nehru, people left behind by post-independence industrialization, parallels with postwar Japan, American investment in the subcontinent, Indira Gandhi, Ra...
Bonus - The History of Taiwan, Ep. 3 w/ James Lin
May 08, 2023 12:41 - 4 minutes - 5.69 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back James Lin, assistant professor of international studies at the University of Washington, to continue the discussion of the history of Taiwan. They pick up at the end of WWII and the Second Sino-Japanese War, assessing the effect of the war on Taiwan, the February 28th incident of 1947, the implementation of martial law, the …
UNLOCKED: A Fascism Debate w/ Jason Stanley and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
May 07, 2023 15:58 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBThis week’s bonus episode, the third installment of The History of Taiwan series w/ James Lin, is coming tomorrow, so in the meantime we hope everyone enjoys this debate using Danny’s New Republic piece on fascism as a launching point! Daniel Steinmetz Jenkins, assistant professor in history at Wesleyan College, moderates a debate between Danny and Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and author of the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Th...
News Roundup - May 5, 2023
May 05, 2023 14:27 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBDerek releases the fire hose of news upon the trash fire of Danny. This week: the death of an Islamic State leader (0:39), clashes in the Gaza Strip (5:52), a Sudan update (8:27), the Kremlin drone strike and a Ukraine update (12:04), a damning human rights report on Peru (16:21), a New Cold War update (17:48) featuring the Paraguayan election and its relationship with Taiwan (17:52), a new US embassy in Tonga (19:40), a new NATO office in Japan (20:36), and Jake Sullivan’s Washington Consen...
Special - The Kremlin Drone Strike
May 03, 2023 22:10 - 3 minutes - 3.47 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny speaks with Derek about the overnight drone strike on the Kremlin in an alleged assassination attempt on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s life. Recorded Wednesday, May 3, 2023
E95 - The American Occupation of China w/ Zach Fredman
May 02, 2023 15:18 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBDanny and Derek welcome to the program Zach Fredman, assistant professor of history at Duke Kunshan University, to discuss his book The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949. They get into the background of the US military presence in China at the end of “the century of humiliation”, the US-China relationship prior to WWII, General Joseph Stilwell, the day-to-day interactions between American GIs and both Chinese military and civilians, the occupation...
Lessons of Guerrero, Ep. 3 w/ Alexander Aviña
April 30, 2023 14:31 - 4 minutes - 5.68 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back Alexander Aviña, associate professor of history at Arizona State University, to close out the discussion of rural guerrilla movements in Mexico and other topics from his book Specters of Revolution. In this episode, they discuss the myriad crises facing Mexico in the mid-1990s, Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Army of N…
UNLOCKED: Bonus - Lessons of Guerrero, Ep. 2 w/ Alexander Aviña
April 29, 2023 00:53 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBAhead of closing out our Lessons of Guerrero series on Sunday, we’ve unlocked the second episode so you can catch up! Danny and Derek welcome back Alexander Aviña, associate professor of history at Arizona State University, to continue the discussion of his book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside. In this episode, they pick up in the 1970s and discuss President Luis Echeverría, the advent of neoliberalism in Mexico, the 1982 default, the transform...
Special - The Sudan Crisis w/ Joshua Craze
April 28, 2023 20:48 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBDanny and Derek welcome Joshua Craze, writer and researcher specializing in Sudan, to discuss the current conflict taking place between the Rapid Support Forces and Sudanese Armed Forces. Check out Joshua’s piece in New Left Review, and his other work at his website! 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
News Roundup - April 28, 2023
April 28, 2023 14:03 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBFresh off his debut television appearance, Danny comes crawling back to Derek to receive The News. It is said Derek the Magnanimous received Danny with a warm embrace. This week: a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) confirms record high global arms spending (0:53), continued fighting in Sudan escalates ancillary effects on civilians (2:16), polls show a tightening race ahead of the Turkish election (10:26), Azerbaijan imposes a checkpoint near Karabakh...
Special - Some Pentagon Papers w/ Ken Klippenstein
April 25, 2023 17:57 - 3 minutes - 3.5 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back Ken Klippenstein, investigative reporter for The Intercept, to discuss his two most recent articles detailing revelations in leaked Pentagon documents. The first concerns $36 million earmarked for research and treatment of everyone’s favorite new disease, Havana Syndrome. The second examines a DOD assessment of “the strategi…
E94 - Belt and Road w/ Juliet Lu
April 25, 2023 13:42 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBDanny and Derek are joined by Juliet Lu, assistant professor at the University of British Columbia and co-host of The Belt and Road Podcast, to discuss, you guessed it: China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)! They get into China’s ideological vision for the project, the Sinophobia around it, how the project compares with non-Chinese institutions’ infrastructure development, the soft power angle, different populations’ reactions to Chinese-branded projects, the debt discourse, and more. Thi...
Bonus - Maass Expansion w/ Richard Maass
April 23, 2023 14:16 - 5 minutes - 6.22 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome Richard Maass, professor of political science at Old Dominion University, to discuss US annexation and his book The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion . They discuss the importance of annexation in understanding contemporary US foreign policy, territorial expansion’s relation to class con…
News Roundup - April 21, 2023
April 21, 2023 14:13 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBDerek tolerates Producer Jake filling in for Danny, who was off filming his new action vehicle Hans Speier: Social Science Slaughter. This week: escalating conflicts in Sudan (1:50), a prisoner exchange in Yemen (10:00), a diplomatic free-for-all in the Middle East (13:27), an unprecedented heat wave hits Thailand (20:32), continuing grain shipment woes for Ukraine (23:03), and government-FARC peace talks set to begin in Colombia (28:31). Recorded April 20, 2023 This is a public episode...
E93 - The International Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois w/ Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts
April 18, 2023 13:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBDanny and Derek welcome Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago, and Jennifer Pitts, Professor of Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, to discuss their co-edited volume W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought, a collection of essays and speeches by Du Bois engaging in empire and internationalism. They touch on the book’s relation to the discipline of international relatio...
Bonus - Queer Germany, Ep. 8 w/ Samuel Huneke
April 16, 2023 13:01 - 5 minutes - 5.76 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome 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. After setting the stage of the early Cold War period last episode, the crew delves further into queer life (in this discussion, gay men, gay women, and trans people) in the FR…
News Roundup - April 14, 2023
April 14, 2023 14:21 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBOur AI-generated Derek was working well until it kept insisting Danny’s name was “Darren” and that The Flat Earth was the news. On this spherical celestial body, however, we covered some other stories: Diplomatic progress in Saudi Arabia with Syria and Iran (0:50), peace talks in Yemen (5:30), the UN responds to the Taliban’s ban on female employees in Afghanistan (8:15), a new missile test from the DPRK (11:04), violence in Ethiopia’s Amhara region (13:01), Finland finally joins NATO (15:26...
E92 - Hope and Sorrow w/ Helen Benedict
April 11, 2023 14:49 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBDanny and Derek welcome Helen Benedict, novelist, author, and professor at the Columbia Journalism School, to discuss refugees in European camps and the refugee crisis in general. They get into the genesis of the book she co-authored, Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece, which documents the experiences of refugees in one particular camp, working as a journalist vs. as a novelist, the US’s reputation as a bastion of human rights, the inherent colonialism of anthropol...
Bonus - The Military-Industrial Complex, Ep. 4 w/ Michael Brenes
April 09, 2023 14:30 - 4 minutes - 5.47 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back Michael Brenes, associate director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and lecturer in history at Yale University, for the EXPLOSIVE conclusion to the history of the United States’ military-industrial complex (MIC). They pick up in the Reagan years, the transition from Cold War liberalism to neoconservativism, the…
Free Bonus - Secret Evidence w/ Laila Al-Arian
April 07, 2023 13:56 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBDanny and Derek welcome Laila Al-Arian, executive producer of Fault Lines on Al-Jazeera English, to discuss her family’s experience as Muslim, Arab Americans persecuted by the state before and after the War on Terror. They get into the case of her father, Sami Al-Arian, beginning in the 1990s and culminating with his 2015 deportation from the US, the imprisonment of her uncle, the phenomenon of “secret evidence”, George W. Bush’s pre- and post-9/11 relationship with Muslim and Arab American...
Foreign Exchanges: The Mamluk Sultanate w/ Carl F. Petry
April 05, 2023 17:15 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBHello Prestigeheads! We just wanted to share Derek’s grand return to podcasting over at Foreign Exchanges in the form of this great discussion of the Mamluks. Be sure to subscribe to FX for content like this, the daily World Roundups, and more. Enjoy! Hello everybody! After a very extended hiatus we’re back with a real, full blown Foreign Exchanges podcast (more on that at the end of the show)! I’m joined by Carl F. Petry, Hamad ibn Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Middle East Studies and Prof...
G-Man and Masters of the Universe w/ Beverly Gage
April 04, 2023 14:27 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBDanny and Derek welcome Beverly Gage, professor of history and American studies at Yale University, to discuss the life and work of J. Edgar Hoover. They touch on his DC upbringing, early years at the nascent FBI, the 1930s War on Crime, the effect of WWII and the Cold War on the agency, COINTELPRO, his sexuality, religiosity, racism, and more. Grab your copy of Beverly’s book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss...
A Fascism Debate w/ Jason Stanley and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
April 02, 2023 14:47 - 5 minutes - 5.99 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Daniel Steinmetz Jenkins, assistant professor in history at Wesleyan College, moderates a debate between Danny and Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and author of the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, about fascism discourse in the United States. The discussion was centered around Danny’s pie…
News Roundup - March 31, 2023
March 31, 2023 14:02 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBDerek busted through the window with a boombox to “school” Danny on “how it is”, also known as giving the News Roundup. This week: an Israel update (0:31), the DPRK sees Kim ordering more nuclear material (6:39), Russia might be positioning nukes in Belarus (9:20) and the US pulls out of another part of New START (12:02), a Ukraine update on the situation in Bakhmut (14:01), France continues to see protests and King Charles delays his visit (15:39), an ELN attack threatens peace talks in Col...
Special - The 2023 Israeli Judicial Reform Protests w/ Udi Greenberg
March 28, 2023 17:50 - 2 minutes - 3.12 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek speak with Udi Greenberg, associate professor of history at Dartmouth College, about the protests in Israel over Benjamin Netanyahu’s government’s legislation seeking to overhaul the Israeli judiciary. They discuss the background and scope of the protests, concessions made to the far right while the legislation is shelved, and more.
E90 - The 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election w/ Alex Thurston
March 28, 2023 13:21 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBDanny and Derek welcome back Alex Thurston, assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati, to discuss the 2023 Nigerian presidential election. They discuss the three main candidates, controversy around the election itself, issues the country is currently grappling with, what a Bola Tinubu presidency might look like, the legacy of incumbent Muhammadu Buhari, the international response, and more. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other sub...
Bonus - All Hailbag the Mailbag 6: Child of Mailbag
March 26, 2023 14:26 - 4 minutes - 5.23 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com The greatest franchise in podcast history, the American Prestige Mailbag, is back with stunning developments. Actually, it’s like the other mailbags, where our dear paid subscribers submit questions and prompts of the highest quality for Danny and Derek (and sometimes Jake). This edition of the mailbag features questions about the New Cold War, world-sy…
News Roundup - March 24, 2023
March 24, 2023 13:38 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBOur mainframe computer, DEREK, gave us the news before it became sentient and we had to unplug it. This week: the new IPCC report on climate and UN report on water access (0:38), good and bad news from Yemen (4:34), Israel makes moves on a new bill legalizing old settlements and Smotrich gets in trouble with Jordan (6:45), Ethiopia sees progress in implementing the Tigray peace deal (10:44), pension problems in France (13:42), a Russia/Ukraine update (18:16), and a New Cold War update (26:50...
Shoot the Messenger, Episode 2: Discovering the Power of Pegasus Spyware
March 22, 2023 13:10 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBHello, Prestigeheads! We had such a great response last week that we’re bringing you another episode of Shoot the Messenger! This week we continue with the story of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi with friends of the pod Nando Vila & Rose Reid. We learn Khashoggi wasn't just targeted — he was hunted. This is the behind-the-scenes story of how Pegasus works, and how it was discovered (and found in Khashoggi's inner circle). This episode is part of Shoot the Messenger's 10-part series on "...
E89 - American Jews and Israel w/ Eric Alterman
March 21, 2023 13:52 - 1 hour - 47 MBDanny and Derek welcome Eric Alterman, CUNY distinguished professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College, to discuss the history of America’s relationship with Israel. They touch on Eric’s own story, the evolution of the Israeli and the Arab in the American Jewish imagination, the inflection points of the 1967 war and the 1982 Lebanon invasion, the Left’s history with Zionism, and more. Be sure to grab a copy of We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel! Th...
Special - 20 Years After Shock and Awe w/ Spencer Ackerman
March 20, 2023 14:19 - 4 minutes - 5.51 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek are joined by Spencer Ackerman, journalist and founder of Forever Wars, to take a look back at America in the early days of the Iraq invasion. They discuss Spencer’s time as a lonely anti-war voice at a liberal hawk publication, how the failure of the war shook up the consensus at such establishments, Democrats defending the war but crti…
Bonus - The Military-Industrial Complex, Ep. 3 w/ Michael Brenes
March 19, 2023 14:19 - 5 minutes - 5.98 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back Michael Brenes, associate director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and lecturer in history at Yale University, to discuss the shocking, scandalous, and salacious history of the United States’ military-industrial complex (MIC). They pick up in the 1970s, touching on the advent of the all-volunteer force (AVF), …
News Roundup - March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023 13:16 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBDerek now comes with USB-C connections, making it that much quicker to obtain…The News. This week: polling from Turkey as election season heats up (1:08), negotiations between Colombia and the ELN plus problems with the Clan del Golfo (5:14), a US drone and Russian jet close encounter (7:38), a Ukraine update (11:07), the Saudi-Iran diplomatic agreement (15:42), and a New Cold War update featuring AUKUS (18:21), the Japan-South Korea meeting (20:12), and Honduras switching recognition from T...