Daniel: Putin’s actions in Ukraine demonstrate the decline of American global hegemony … Did the Soviet Union have the same expansionist ambitions as the US? … How the war in Ukraine could increase nuclear proliferation … Daniel: It’s absurd that people got so upset about Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comment … Does the US have “mass politics” anymore? If not, is that a bad thing? … When does it pay to privatize? … What’s so bad about utopianism? … Is true meritocracy possible within a highly unequal society? … The uses (and possible abuses) of game theory …

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  1. Dr.Guido Member
    Dr.Guido
    @DrGuido

    We had/have (?) the world for the taking but did not but we are the worst colonial wannabe brutes in the history of the world???
    Wow.

    I do wish I were an intellectual so I could live with such inherent contradiction. And tenured too!!

    What a waste of my time…I could have shampooed or polished my shoes …but NO….this ate up those seconds. I’ll not forgive myself soon.

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  2. OwnedByDogs Lincoln
    OwnedByDogs
    @JuliaBlaschke

    Dr.Guido (View Comment):

    We had/have (?) the world for the taking but did not but we are the worst colonial wannabe brutes in the history of the world???
    Wow.

    I do wish I were an intellectual so I could live with such inherent contradiction. And tenured too!!

    What a waste of my time…I could have shampooed or polished my shoes …but NO….this ate up those seconds. I’ll not forgive myself soon.

    I turned it off. Did Glenn push back at all?

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  3. Taras Coolidge
    Taras
    @Taras

    Dr.Guido (View Comment):

    We had/have (?) the world for the taking but did not but we are the worst colonial wannabe brutes in the history of the world???
    Wow.

    I do wish I were an intellectual so I could live with such inherent contradiction. And tenured too!!

    What a waste of my time…I could have shampooed or polished my shoes …but NO….this ate up those seconds. I’ll not forgive myself soon.

    @DrGuido  — I’ve just started listening myself but, yeah, it’s kind of painful.

    Bessner is a progressive, which arguably makes him not a scholar at all.  A progressive’s dedication is not to the truth, but a utilitarian loyalty to whatever he considers social justice at that particular moment.

    In occupied Berlin after World War II, for example, American soldiers offered German women food for sex.  While Russian soldiers raped the women and stole their food.

    A progressive prof would use a level of abstraction, like “the food-sex nexus”, to gloss over the difference.  A truthful account would necessarily place America in a more favorable light, and that’s something progressives do their best to avoid.

    Similarly,  leftists like Bessner describe American intervention overseas to stop Nazi Germany and the (nearly as evil) Japanese Empire as an attempt to establish  “American hegemony” or even imperialism.

    If Glenn doesn’t start hitting back soon, I’ll probably give this up, too.

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  4. Blue State Blues Member
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    @BlueStateBlues

    What amused me was his assertion that the USSR did not have global domination ambitions (but of course the USA does).  Yeah right.  I forget, who took over half of Europe, supported Communist regimes in Cuba, China, SE Asia, etc.?

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  5. Taras Coolidge
    Taras
    @Taras

    Blue State Blues (View Comment):

    What amused me was his assertion that the USSR did not have global domination ambitions (but of course the USA does). Yeah right. I forget, who took over half of Europe, supported Communist regimes in Cuba, China, SE Asia, etc.?

    And the only reason the USSR took only half of Europe and not the whole thing was fear of what the US military — with a nuclear monopoly until 1949 — would do.

    The Soviets believed that Marxism would bring a final utopia to the world, so they had an ethical obligation to bring it to all the peoples of the world.

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