Bonus - American Idealism and the Struggling Left w/ Nathan J. Robinson (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Danny and Derek welcome to the program Nathan J. Robinson, editor of Current Affairs, to talk about the state of the left as well as the book he recently co-authored with Noam Chomsky, The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World. They explore what role the myth plays, the international turn in history, understanding propaganda and the American polity, the left’s rejection by the liberal coalition in the US, what we can do in terms of strategy and tactics, and whether a new labor movement can contend with the massive new billionaire class aligned behind the right. Subscribe now for the full episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.2	I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson. And we're very excited to welcome to the podcast today. Nathan J. Robinson. Nathan is the founder and editor of Current Affairs Magazine. And he's also the co-author of a new book with Noam Chomsky, titled The Myth of American Idealism, How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World that I reviewed for the Nation. And Nathan and I thought it'd
1:15.9	be interesting if we could talk about the book, maybe a little bit in my review and go from there.
1:19.7	So, Nathan, thank you so much for joining us.
1:21.4	Hey, so glad to be with you.
1:23.6	Thank you. So why don't we start with, what role did Chomsky play in your development? Why did you
1:29.2	decide to write a book with Chomsky? How did that come about? But first of all, why is Chonsky an
1:33.5	important figure in left thought and in your world in particular? Well, I don't know how old you are,
1:40.1	but I'm 35, so I'm I'm 17. Okay, I was...
1:46.0	I came of age politically at the time of the Iraq War,
1:49.7	and I graduated high school in 2007,
1:52.5	so I was...
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