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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What if the U.S. Just Didn’t?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As Joe Biden assembles his cabinet, he has an opportunity to remake America’s image on the global stage. What if the US was seen as a cooperative partner rather than a big-footed global leader?  Guest: Peter Beinart, contributing opinion writer to the New York Times and editor-at-large for Jewish Currents.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Reading about Joe Biden's nominees for Cabinet posts these days feels a little like getting

0:40.0

your political horoscope red. No one knows what any of these people will actually do. So

0:46.2

instead, smart folks are reading the tea leaves, digging up old articles people have written,

0:52.0

speeches they've given, trying to predict the future.

0:55.3

It does seem like Joe Biden has put a high premium on people that he has a personal

1:00.3

comfort level with.

1:01.8

Peter Bynart is no astrologer. He's a historian and a political scientist. I asked him to

1:07.8

come on not just to speculate about what happens now, but to build a case. Because one of

1:14.2

the other things that's happening at the moment is people like Peter are floating their

1:18.6

best ideas in public, trying to shape what happens now. Peter's expertise is for

1:25.2

foreign policy. He says he looks at who Joe Biden has named to a variety of key positions,

1:30.9

his preferred secretary of state, a national security advisor. And already he sees a pattern.

1:37.2

I do think it's a legitimate criticism of this team that you do not have an intellectual

1:41.9

outlier of somebody who I think stands outside of some of the basic assumptions that are

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