American Prestige
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Danny and Derek broadcast from an undisclosed resort location. This week: an update on the conflict with Iran, including the ceasefire (2:34), Trump’s disagreement with US intelligence assessments (5:25), the status of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities and material ...
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Investigative journalist Eli Clifton is back on the show, this time to share his thoughts on Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York's Democratic mayoral primary. Eli also just got back from Iran and analyzes where things stand amid a tenuous ceasefire.
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June 24, 2025 • 60 mins
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Ben Freeman and Nick Cleveland-Stout from the Quincy Institute join the program to talk about their Think Tank Funding Tracker, a repository that tracks funding from foreign governments, the U.S. government, and Pentagon contractors to the top 50 think tanks in the United States over the past five years. The group discusses think tanks’ role in the “military-intellectual” complex...
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June 23, 2025 • 30 mins
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Danny and Derek break down the details of today's strike by Iran against the US Al-Udeid air base in Qatar.
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June 22, 2025 • 8 mins
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Danny and Derek discuss last night's attacks, what the strategy of the US was, what the strategy of Iran might be, what an invasion of Iran would look like, the US role in the Middle East, and the Axis of Resistance.
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June 22, 2025 • 10 mins
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Note: This episode was recorded Friday, June 20 in the afternoon.
Danny and Derek welcome back to the program Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, to talk about when and how the US will become fully involved in Israel’s war with Iran. They discuss the major interest groups within the Trump 2.0 administration, why the Iranians would continue negot...
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June 20, 2025 • 51 mins
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No ChatGPT here—our em dashes are organic. This week: in the Iran-Israel war, an update on the casualties and targets (1:52), US involvement remains in question (7:45), Ayatollah Khamenei refuses to surrender (14:47), and US and Israeli intelligence agencies disagree over “evidence” of Iran pursuing a nuclear weapon (18:14); Trump quits the G7 summit early, possibly due to Israel...
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June 18, 2025 • 33 mins
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Derek welcomes back to the program Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for HuffPost, to talk about the prospect of Trump bringing the US into a war with Iran.
Akbar has written a number of articles on Israel-Iran in the last several days, including "The Pro-Israel U.S. General Quietly Influencing Trump On Iran" and "Israel...
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June 17, 2025 • 77 mins
In lieu of a typical AP episode this week, we're releasing the first two episodes of our standalone miniseries on the First Crusade with the crew from We're Not So Different. Get the rest of the series here.
Our journey through the First Crusade starts where the Crusaders themselves did: in western Europe with Pope Urban II and the Council of Clermont. We discuss conditions in Latin Christendom in the late 11th century, what pro...
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June 17, 2025 • 72 mins
We've released the first two episodes of our standalone miniseries with the folks from We're Not So Different. Get the rest of the episodes here!
The expedition begins to take shape. We continue to explore the fallout from Pope Urban II’s call for Crusade at the Council of Clermont, as lords from across France prepare to set off. We look especially at the Normans under Bohemond of Taranto, who will play an outsized role in t...
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June 16, 2025 • 12 mins
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Danny and Derek update us on what's been going on over the past few days between Israel and Iran.
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June 15, 2025 • 12 mins
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Danny speaks with Matt Karp, associate professor of history at Princeton, about party formation in the 1850s as well as his take on the Trump phenomenon. They explore the downfall of the Whigs and rise of the Republicans, the structure of the political parties at the beginning of the republic, the relationship of i...
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June 14, 2025 • 33 mins
Spencer Ackerman of Forever Wars is back on the podcast to talk about the LA protests and his piece on them for Zeteo, "The Imperial Boomerang Lands in Los Angeles."
You can read the "director's cut" of Spencer's piece over at Forever Wars.
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June 13, 2025 • 12 mins
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Danny and Derek speak with Séamus Malekafzali about Israel’s strike on Iran, Iran’s response and attack on Israel, U.S. and geostrategy, and more.
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Danny and Derek are everyday people who still believe in you. This week: the AUKUS security partnership is under review at the Pentagon (1:47); the IAEA rebukes Iran, nuclear negotiations are going nowhere, and Trump is evacuating nonessential personnel from the Middle East (5:14); in...
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June 11, 2025 • 8 mins
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Spencer Ackerman of Forever Wars is back on the podcast to talk about the LA protests and his piece on them for Zeteo, "The Imperial Boomerang Lands in Los Angeles."
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June 10, 2025 • 59 mins
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In this week’s episode, Danny speaks with journalist Ross Benes about his book 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times. They discuss the connection between the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and “trash culture”, what makes the instantiation o...
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June 8, 2025 • 10 mins
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Danny and Derek welcome back to the program AP Mexico desk Alexander Aviña, associate professor of Latin American history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University, this time to reflect on Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum several months in...
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We’re sorry to say that we’re professionals, and Danny and Derek’s falling-out will be behind closed doors. In this week’s news: in Russia-Ukraine, Ukraine launches a massive drone strike and bombs several bridges (0:41), peace talks in Istanbul make little progress (5:43), an...
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June 3, 2025 • 58 mins
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Danny and Derek welcome to the program author Eva Payne to talk about her book Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution. They discuss American sexual exceptionalism, the legal definition of “prostitution” vs modern conceptions of sex work, the late 19th century new abolition...
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