#54 — Trumping The World

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 1 December 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with journalist James Kirchick about the coming Trump presidency, liberalism vs illiberalism, fake news, Russia, Syria, Iran, and the future of American power.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
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0:46.8	Today I'll be speaking with Jamie Kirchick. Jamie is a journalist and foreign correspondent,
0:53.6	currently based in Washington. He's reported from all over the world,
0:59.2	Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, various countries in Europe. He writes mainly now for
1:06.0	the daily beast, and he's also a columnist for tablet. And his first book coming out from Yale
1:11.6	University Press, I believe next March, 2017, is entitled The End of Europe, Dictators,
1:18.8	Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age. His writing has appeared everywhere, the Washington Post,
1:25.0	the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times. And he spent a lot of time thinking about the election
1:31.5	and its implications for US foreign policy, the kinds of trends and concerns that brought us here,
1:38.5	and the trends and concerns that will likely endure. I wanted to talk to him, and I'm very glad
1:44.8	I got him on the podcast. And we dive back into politics here, talking about the election and the
1:50.1	coming Trump presidency, mostly with a focus on the implications for foreign policy. So if you are
1:57.2	concerned about the world and what happens to it on our watch, well, then you might find something
2:05.0	useful here. And now I give you Jamie Kirchick. I'm here with Jamie Kirchick. Jamie, thanks for
2:17.7	being on the podcast. Thank you for having me, Sam. Tell our listeners how you describe yourself
2:24.0	at this moment and what you mostly focus on. So I'm a journalist based in Washington. I focus mostly
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