The Eternal Causes of War (Robert Wright, Alex Jordan, and Courtney Rawlings)

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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0:28 Courtney’s and Alex’s Always at War podcast 2:54 Have restrainers given up on Trump? 11:10 The legacies of Hamilton Jordan 16:31 Courtney: Money drives war 25:40 Palantir cashes in 32:45 Alex: Blame American exceptionalism first

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Alex Jordan (The Quincy Institute, Always at War), and Courtney Rawlings (The Quincy Institute, Always at War). Recorded June 23, 2025.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcasts.
0:27.6	Hello, Courtney and Alex.
0:32.3	Hello.
0:33.1	How are you guys?
0:35.7	I'm tired as well.
0:37.3	Yes, a little tired. Yeah, I mean, it's like a thousand
0:40.9	degrees outside. It doesn't help. That's actually what it is. No, it literally is 93 where I am and you're
0:46.7	also on the East Coast. Yeah, I don't know what I went outside for like two seconds and now I have to
0:51.9	sleep. Yeah. But I'll record first.
0:55.1	Let me introduce this.
0:57.2	Oh, right.
0:57.7	So you are Courtney Rawling.
0:59.2	I am.
1:01.0	And your friend here is Alex Jordan, although it's spelled like Jordan.
1:05.8	True.
1:06.4	And before I ask why it's pronounced that way, I want to say you guys are affiliated with the Quincy Institute and the co-hosts of this pretty darn new podcast called Always at War. Now, coincidentally, as you may have heard, the United States is at war right now.
1:24.8	Yeah. I think when we scheduled this, was there a war going on?
1:28.6	I get next up.
1:29.6	Involving the US directly?
1:30.7	No, it was just weapons.
1:32.5	It was just weapons we supply.
1:35.9	But anyway, we are now.
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