Ben Rhodes on Activism vs Authoritarianism

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🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Ben Rhodes, A former White House aide and close confidant to President Barack Obama, discusses what it was like to go from being the ultimate White House insider to reporting on world events from the outside. He talks about his conversation with the now imprisoned Russian activist Alexei Navalny, what he learned from the Hong Kong protesters, and how Hungarian strongman Victor Orban quickly consolidated power and rolled back post-Soviet freedoms. Plus he reveals why he believes that America is partly to blame for figures like Orban, Putin, and Xi, and he even weighs in on the government’s joint intelligence report about Unidentified Arial Phenomena. Order Ben's new book After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made on Amazon, Audible, or wherever books are sold. Subscribe to Ben’s podcast Pod Save the World wherever you like to listen, and follow him on twitter at @brhodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.1	Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world?
1:19.8	And what can we do about it? Ben Rhodes, a former White House aide and close confidant
1:24.8	to President Barack Obama and the author of The World As It Is,
1:28.8	travels the globe in a deeply personal, beautifully observed quest for answers.
1:34.3	In his new book, After the Fall, Being American in the World We've Made.
1:39.8	And today, Ben returns to the podcast to discuss what it was like to go from being
1:44.3	the ultimate White House insider to reporting on world events from the outside.
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