Daniel Bessner

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Daniel Bessner is an historian of US foreign relations, and cohost of American Prestige, a podcast on international affairs.

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Can We Live Without Twitter? Can We Live Without Twitter?

The platform has become an important space for political conversations; it is also run by a for-profit private enterprise and full of cruel trolling. Is there a way to have the goo...

Aug 30, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Bessner

Can the American University Be Saved?

Can the American University Be Saved? Can the American University Be Saved?

Covid-19 has revealed the glaring inequalities of higher ed in the United States and may push the system to the point of crisis.

Sep 8, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Bessner

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Foreign Policy Beyond Good and Evil Foreign Policy Beyond Good and Evil

Even Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have fallen victim to a simplistic vision of world affairs.

Mar 11, 2019 / Daniel Bessner and Udi Greenberg

Uighur ethnic cleansing in China

How the Left Should Respond to Ethnic Cleansing in China How the Left Should Respond to Ethnic Cleansing in China

A million Uighurs are being held in concentration camps in Xinjiang. What can the US do?

Jan 15, 2019 / Daniel Bessner and Isaac Stone Fish

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