Episode 32: Tearing Down the Bipartisan Imperial Consensus with Daniel Bessner

In the Context of Empire

Jon and Matt were joined by Dr. Daniel Bessner to discuss the need to challenge the bipartisan consensus on US foreign policy. Dr. Bessner currently holds the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization at the University of Washington. He is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He also the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual More of Dr. Bessner's writing can be found in Jacobin, the New York Times, and his blog, Foreign Exchanges

Discussed in this Episode:

- The bipartisan imperial consensus and its destructive consequences.

- Daniel's article for the New York Times, What Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Think About the South China Sea?

- The need for progressive politicians to include anti imperialist foreign policy as part of their platform

- The total lack of accountability for foreign policy failures/war criminality

- Defense intellectual: How the allegedly most intelligent officials from the best schools have created disastrous foreign policy

- Daniel's article Build back Better at Foreign Exchanges, predictions and hopes for the Biden administration

- The need to join the International Criminal Court, dissolve NATO, and pardon whistleblowers

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