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1:21 Have Glenn’s intellectual shifts been misread?

5:45 Danny: Francis Fukuyama was right

10:30 Capitalism won. Is that a good thing?

14:18 The climate under capitalism

20:24 Danny: “People said 'f**k you' to the Democratic Party”

23:51 Why the “Trump is a fascist” argument makes no sense

27:53 Whither the working class coalition?

33:10 How the US foreign policy establishment won the argument and lost Ukraine

36:28 Danny: There is no way the US can maintain influence in East Asia

38:26 Does Jewish survival require a Jewish state?

43:50 The limits of social science

49:36 The media’s obsession with polling

53:55 Is the US reaping what it’s sown on immigration?52:34 Is the US reaping what it’s sown on immigration?

Recorded November 9, 2024

Links and Readings

Dann’s podcast, American Prestige

Danny’s conversations with Glenn about his intellectual history, parts 1, 2, 3, and 4

Francis Fukuyama’s Financial Times piece, “What Trump Unleashed Means for America”

Danny’s Nation essay, “The Liberal Discontents of Francis Fukuyama”

Adam Tooze’s podcast, Ones & Tooze

Danny’s Harper’s essay, “The Life and Death of Hollywood”

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s manifesto, The Communist Manifesto

Danny’s Harper’s essay, “Empire Burlesque”

Danny’s Boston Review piece, “Mass Destruction”

Glenn’s recent conversation with Rajiv Sethi

JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

John Murray Cuddihy’s book, The Ordeal of Civilization: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity

Yuri Slezkine’s book, The Jewish Century

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