The Hell of Good Intentions...and the Pleasures of Dubious Ones...
Harvard's Stephen Walt has written a timely book called "The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy"...which is just exactly the kind of subject you wo...
22 Okt 201842min
1-on-1 with Ivo Daalder: A Discussion of the New Book "The Empty Throne"
Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay, two of America's leading foreign policy experts have written an in-depth analysis of Donald Trump's tenure to date as president. It is a withering critique, but more im...
18 Okt 201824min
What Foreign Policy Shifts May Follow a Dem Victory in November?
While the Trump Administration may get much Trumpier with the personnel changes expected after Election Day, a Democratic victory on November 6th that brought them control of the House of Representati...
18 Okt 201843min
Fascist, Incompetent or Both: Assessing Trumpism Today
In the Financial Times our own Ed Luce discusses how Trump's attacks on the truth and his enemies have moved us toward fascism and where he has fallen short of achieving key steps on the road toward t...
16 Okt 201849min
Values, I’ll Show You Values…How Much Will Pay Me to Set Aside My Values?
Values matter. Well, at least the appearance of having values matter. Well, at least they always did until Donald Trump came along. Now, around the world foreign leaders know that the US is in it f...
11 Okt 201849min
The Invasion of the Blob People
How much are foreign policy elites responsible for the rise of nationalist, anti-globalist views worldwide? How much is the retreat of American leadership responsible for the willingness of dictators ...
9 Okt 201845min
Second Verse Same As the First
Most of Deep State Radio’s cutting edge, youthful listeners are probably too young to remember the song the title references (“Mrs. Brown You Had a Lovely Daughter” by Herman’s Hermits). But so were ...
4 Okt 201849min
Kavanaugh is Not Just a Nominee, He’s a Symptom
The political furor around the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court may seem like pure domestic US politics, but the implications for America’s role in the world are serious. Not only d...
2 Okt 201846min
