Daniel Bessner – Trump's Triumph and Liberalism's Failure

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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1:21 Have Glenn’s intellectual shifts been misread?

5:45 Danny: Francis Fukuyama was right

10:30 Capitalism won. Is that a good thing?

14:18 The climate under capitalism

20:24 Danny: “People said 'f**k you' to the Democratic Party”

23:51 Why the “Trump is a fascist” argument makes no sense

27:53 Whither the working class coalition?

33:10 How the US foreign policy establishment won the argument and lost Ukraine

36:28 Danny: There is no way the US can maintain influence in East Asia

38:26 Does Jewish survival require a Jewish state?

43:50 The limits of social science

49:36 The media’s obsession with polling

53:55 Is the US reaping what it’s sown on immigration?52:34 Is the US reaping what it’s sown on immigration?

Recorded November 9, 2024

Links and Readings

Dann’s podcast, American Prestige

Danny’s conversations with Glenn about his intellectual history, parts 1, 2, 3, and 4

Francis Fukuyama’s Financial Times piece, “What Trump Unleashed Means for America”

Danny’s Nation essay, “The Liberal Discontents of Francis Fukuyama”

Adam Tooze’s podcast, Ones & Tooze

Danny’s Harper’s essay, “The Life and Death of Hollywood”

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s manifesto, The Communist Manifesto

Danny’s Harper’s essay, “Empire Burlesque”

Danny’s Boston Review piece, “Mass Destruction”

Glenn’s recent conversation with Rajiv Sethi

JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

John Murray Cuddihy’s book, The Ordeal of Civilization: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity

Yuri Slezkine’s book, The Jewish Century

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0:00.0	Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to the Glenn Show at glenlawry.substack.com.
0:06.7	As a subscriber, you will receive new episodes on Mondays instead of Fridays and get access to ticket pre-sales to live events, monthly Q&As with Glenn Laurie and John McWhorter, exclusive content and other benefits.
0:21.8	Thank you.
0:23.4	Everybody out there, you have tuned into the Glenn Show.
0:25.8	Glenn Lowry here.
0:27.0	I teach at Brown University.
0:28.4	I'm the Merton Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences there.
0:31.2	And I'm John Paulson Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute in hopes of the Glenshaw.
0:35.9	And I'm joined this week by Daniel Bessner, who is professor of international studies at
0:42.2	the Henry Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.
0:47.8	And a friend of mine, he's a friend of the Glenshaw, been on many times to talk.
0:52.1	He's a lefty.
0:53.2	We're going to forgive him that,
0:54.4	but he's one of the smartest people I know, actually.
0:56.5	People get mad at me for saying that, Daddy,
0:58.1	because you have your enemies out there.
1:00.0	They're going to say, no, he has his head up his buddy.
1:02.4	He's a blaming idiot, you know, blah, blah, blah.
1:04.8	But no, I think he was in the green room or something at Bill Maher's studio for the TV show, because we did the show together.
1:15.2	And I should mention my book, late admissions, Confessions of a Black Conservative, published by Norton in May of 2024, and available at your booksellers,
1:32.1	was abetted in its development by conversations I had with Daniel,
1:34.5	in which he kind of interviewed me about my own life,
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