Trailer: The Intellectual Scene | June 21 2022 | Zevin and "A Normal War"

In the second episode of the season, we discuss how foreign policy intellectuals from a breadth of political views have responded to the war over these last four months. From IR theorists like Wertheim and Kupchan to the more left-oriented Alexander Zevin at the New Left Review and Thomas Meaney in The Guardian, we’ve noticed some patterns in the discussion that we’ve tracked since starting the podcast. 

From questions about the stability of US hegemony to the Left’s abandonment of anti-imperialist politics, the writers on display give a deep view of the intellectual debates that war has re-energized. While we don’t agree with everything here, we chose a collection of articles that have a general feature in common, and that’s the urgency of restraint in American military affairs. We seem to have arrived at a moment where restraint seems impossible, and yet perhaps never more important than right now. 

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