Cold War Liberal Empire—With Michael Brenes
On American Prestige: Derek speaks with Danny and Mike Brenes about Cold War liberalism, its shaping of the American empire, and more from their new co-edited volume.
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Cold War Liberal Empire w/ Daniel Bessner and Michael Brenes I American Prestige
Derek speaks with Danny and Mike Brenes about Cold War liberalism, its shaping of the American empire, and more from their new co-edited volume. They discuss the meaning of “Cold War liberalism,” the book’s essays, the relationship between liberalism and mass democracy, emergency politics, the continuity between New Deal liberalism and Cold War liberalism, military Keynesianism, US empire, neoconservatism, Joe Biden, and the persistence of Cold War liberal ideas in long after the end of the Cold War itself.
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American President Harry S. Truman seated in White House library, with ‘The Buck Stops Here’ on placard in foreground, circa 1950.
(Fotosearch / Getty Images).Derek speaks with Danny and Mike Brenes about Cold War liberalism, its shaping of the American empire, and more from their new co-edited volume. They discuss the meaning of “Cold War liberalism”; the book’s essays; the relationship between liberalism and mass democracy; emergency politics; the continuity between New Deal liberalism and Cold War liberalism; and military Keynesianism, US empire, neoconservatism, Joe Biden, and the persistence of Cold War liberal ideas long after the end of the Cold War itself.
Buy the volume Cold War Liberalism: Power in a Time of Emergency and use the discount code BESSNER26
Don’t forget to download our Marx Prestige miniseries. Final episode out today!
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The History of the Jewish Bund w/ Molly Crabapple / American Prestige
Danny and Derek speak with artist and writer Molly Crabapple about her book on the history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country. They discuss Molly's personal connection to the story, the Pale of Settlement and Jewish emancipation, the founding of the Bund in 1897, the Bund's armed self-defense against pogroms, its fraught relationship with Lenin and the Bolsheviks, the Bund's rivalry with Zionism, the flourishing of Bundist culture in interwar Poland, and the lessons of the Bund’s story for the Jewish left today.
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