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🗓️ 25 October 2024
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Curit Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor-chief of Curate Affairs Magazine. I am joined today by my colleagues, Lily Sanchez. Hello, Lily. |
0:31.6 | Hey, everyone. And Alex Scopic. Hello, Alex. Hello there. I think it's your first time on the current affairs podcast, isn't it, Alex? |
0:40.2 | It is, yes. |
0:41.6 | Welcome, welcome. If people haven't read Alex's brilliant articles in current affairs, |
0:46.4 | there are lots of them on many, many different topics. |
0:48.9 | I meant to have you want to ask about your articles before about the Stalin or dollar |
0:52.9 | stores or graffiti. But today, actually, |
0:55.6 | I'm going to be turning it over to the two of you because I am used to asking the questions. |
1:01.1 | Today, I'll be answering them. We're having this discussion to coincide with the release of a |
1:07.5 | book project that I've been working on and people from who listened to a |
1:11.9 | read current affairs might have heard me talk about before, finally coming out after three |
1:17.3 | years. |
1:18.3 | It's the myth of American idealism, how US foreign policy endangers the world, co-authored |
1:22.9 | with Ferdonome Chomsky. |
1:24.9 | So let's talk about it. |
1:26.7 | Alex and Christine, maybe you want to say stuff you've |
1:29.0 | read it now right yeah as I read the whole thing and it's it's turned out well I think but |
1:35.7 | so the first thing I want to ask about it is you know for people who maybe are not familiar |
1:43.7 | with Fraser Tombsky's work or with this book in particular the, you know, for people who maybe are not familiar with |
1:44.4 | Fraser Tromsky's work or with this book in particular, the title, you know, |
1:48.4 | the myth of American idealism. |
1:49.9 | You know, what is the myth of American idealism? |
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