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My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is the third in what I said would be a three-part series, but will in fact be a four-part

series, with Dig Super Guest Aziz Rana, re-examining the entirety of American history through

alternating periods of conflict and quiescence around our liberal capitalist, imperialist

constitutional order. This is the history of how an avowed white Anglo-Settler colony,

practicing the widespread enslavement of black workers, while expanding westward through the

dispossession of indigenous land, transformed itself in the wake of the Spanish-American

War and World Wars 1 and 2 into a global empire that claimed its right to hegemony by virtue of its

universalist emancipatory principles. And then it's the history of how all that has spectacularly

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