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Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Andrew Bacevich (Quincy Institute, Boston University)
- Andrew’s new book, The Age of Illusions . 0:19
- Andrew’s ideological lodestars: Catholic conservatism, Reinhold Niebuhr, and FDR . 5:50
- Defining foreign policy “realism” . 14:44
- How Clinton, GWB, and Obama were captured by the post–Cold War consensus . 28:46
- Will international law ever command wide respect? . 37:09
- 1992 as a harbinger of 2016 . 44:53
- The political logic behind America’s endless drone war . 57:45
- Why Trump keeps failing to end the wars he wants to end . 63:07
- How Andrew’s service in Vietnam shaped his worldview . 69:53
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Posted:Feb 14, 2020
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