Why An Empire Eats

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Conquest is back baby! Eastern Europe, Taiwan, Greenland, Canada? It’s all on the table—and maybe up for grabs. Here to help us sort through this new age of empire building is University of Chicago political scientist Michael Albertus.

As always, climate change
Whither Canada?
The coming Canadian century
“Territorial ambitions sometimes bite back”
The biggest caveats ever uttered on the show
“An empire eats”
The stories nations tell themselves
“Getting more America”
Picking the winners and losers
A little optimism at the end
How land confers power
Those Were The Days
The false promise of abundance

The Coming Age of Territorial Expansion

Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies

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0:59.8	Conquest is back, baby.
1:02.0	Eastern Europe, Taiwan, Greenland, Canada.
1:04.7	It's all on the table.
1:06.2	And here to help us sort through some of this stuff is Michael Albertus, who wrote an excellent piece in
1:11.4	foreign affairs earlier this month that caught our eye. Sir, can you introduce yourself?
1:17.7	Yeah, and thanks for having me on the show. It's great to be here. I'm a professor of political
1:22.6	science at the University of Chicago. I study how countries allocate opportunity and well-being among
1:30.2	their citizens and the consequences that has for society. And that has brought me to study
1:37.1	things like democracy and dictatorship, inequality and redistribution, development, long- run development, and all of that went into
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