Bonus - 20th Century Iraq, Ep. 3 w/ Brandon Wolf-Hunnicutt (Preview)

Danny and Derek speak with Colette Shade, who just released her debut collection of essays Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was). They discuss the fine line between ordinary nostalgia and lamenting the decline in material conditions, the advent of the internet and how it shaped a generation, how the millenials who grew up with the promise of the 90s compare with Gen Z and Alpha, the reality of globalization, how 9/11 magnified some of the more unfortunate trends of the 90s, the '08 recession, and more. Subscribe now for ad-free episodes and much more content! Go to Colette's website for more of her work and more information on her upcoming live appearances! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, associate professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, joins Derek to continue the series on his book The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq. This episode delves into the February 1963 coup, Abdul-Karim Qasim and his ideology, the US role in the coup itself, the tenuous Nasserist-Ba'athist coalition, the subsequent November 1963 coup, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny and Derek speak with Ryan Grim of Drop Site News and Yann Philippin of the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) about Drop Site's story on revelations about the US government being the largest funder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the journalistic organization working with outlets to bring to light such stories as the Panama Papers or the Pandora Papers. Read the full piece, "A Giant of Journalism Gets Half its Budget From the U.S. Government". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny welcomes back to the program Van Jackson, senior lecturer in international relations at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, to explore grand strategy and a progressive foreign policy to make a more just and stable world. They discuss where grand strategy falls in the fields of political science and international relations, dominant grand strategies like offshore balancing, neoliberal institutionalism, and anti-hegemonism, how these strategies relate to what's happening in DC, and more. Grab a copy of Van's book Grand Strategies of the Left: The Foreign Policy of Progressive Worldmaking. Subscribe now and support the pod! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny and Derek welcome back to the podcast historian Michael Franczak to talk about the political career of Jimmy Carter. Topics include his aspirations upon becoming president, the Trilateral Commission, human rights, Iran, and more. Subscribe now for the full episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny and Derek welcome back to the program Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, associate professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, to continue the series on his book The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq. This episode picks up in WWII, exploring how that conflict changed the West's relationship with oil, building anti-British sentiment in Iraq, how that country became a higher priority after Iran began asserting itself in the 1950s, the 1958 officers' coup and how it compares with that of Nasser's in Egypt, and more into the early 1960s. Subscribe now for the full episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny once again chats with television writer and producer Justin Boyd, this time to examine Stanley Kubrick's 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut. Besides its holiday setting, the two discuss the film's place in Kubrick's oeuvre, its standing as an "end of history" piece of art, Kubrick as a true "20th century man", the Austro-Hungarian setting of the source novella vs. the dreamlike New York of the adaptation, and more. Subscribe now for the full episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny and Derek welcome back to the podcast Eleanor Janega, medieval historian, author, and broadcaster, to get down to brass tacks: What is Christmas? They discuss its practice in early and medieval Christian societies, mummers’ plays and gambling, Saint Nicholas providing dowries and resurrecting boys killed for their meat, the post-Reformation treatment of Christmas, and more. Subscribe at Supporting Cast! Grab a copy of Eleanor’s book The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny and Derek speak with Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, associate professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, for the first episode in our series on his book The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq. In this episode, they lay the groundwork of 20th century Iraq, covering the Hashemite monarchy, sectarianism and the country and the role of Western actors, the Iraqi Petroleum Company, the origins of the communist movement in Iraq, Rashid Ali and anti-British movements, and more until World War II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake Werner, acting director of the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute, is back on the program, this time to talk about the current state of US-China relations and where they might be heading under Trump 2.0. They talk about the Biden administration's bimodal approach of collaborating with China while trying to threaten it, the regional alliance structure, how Trump appears to be positioning himself toward China in his new administration, how the US might navigate trade upheaval given the lack of domestic manufacturing, consumption and climate change, and more. Don't forget to listen to our episode on Jake's brief "A Program for Progressive China Policy". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices