Stephanie savel is an anthropologist of militarism, security and civic engagement at brown university in providence, rhode island. She's also the co director of their costs of ror project. This episode to day was produced by victoria chamberlain, with help from hoddy moagdy a. None of us will ever forget this day, yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world.
The Department of Defense tracks how much US wars cost, but last week President Biden cited instead accounting from the Costs of War Project at Brown University. Its co-director, Stephanie Savell, explains why.
Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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