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Ep 104: Peter Feaver on “Wokeness,” Politics, and the Military
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Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Thanks For Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military, joins the show to talk about the state of civil-military relations in America, and to call for a truce on the issue of “wokism.”
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• 01:46 Introduction
• 2:40 Precedents
• 4:18 Citizen soldier to today
• 11:40 Expanding fissures
• 18:46 Downsides to a high approval rating
• 25:04 Isolationism and “wokeness”
• 33:56 Sloppy discourse
• 38:16 An echo of the ’90s
• 41:11 Progress
• 48:28 Race/Sexuality/Gender
• 55:03 A bit of Sparta in Athens
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Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
160 episodes
Manage episode 393067191 series 2998419
Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Thanks For Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military, joins the show to talk about the state of civil-military relations in America, and to call for a truce on the issue of “wokism.”
▪️
Times
• 01:46 Introduction
• 2:40 Precedents
• 4:18 Citizen soldier to today
• 11:40 Expanding fissures
• 18:46 Downsides to a high approval rating
• 25:04 Isolationism and “wokeness”
• 33:56 Sloppy discourse
• 38:16 An echo of the ’90s
• 41:11 Progress
• 48:28 Race/Sexuality/Gender
• 55:03 A bit of Sparta in Athens
Follow along on Instagram
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
160 episodes
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