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The Apocalypse: An Outside Perspective
Season 4, Ep. 56
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Wherein Ben welcomes Minna Ålander to talk us through how Europe is viewing our collapsing democracy. Alicia Wanless joined in to give us a Canadian viewpoint.
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01:02:06||Season 4, Ep. 71Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Lauren Buitta, founder of the nonprofit Girl Security, to talk about women in national security in the Trump era.70. Mike Pesca on Politics, Football, and the Penny
01:06:08||Season 4, Ep. 70Wherein Ben welcomes Mike Pesca to talk about the Superbowl and how bad he thinks Trumpism is going to get. Holly Berkley Fletcher cohosts, and Anastasiia Lapatina shows off her baby.69. The New Techno-Plutocracy
01:03:43||Season 4, Ep. 69Wherein Ben welcomes Raluca Csernatoni, a European scholar, to discuss European responses to our developing techno-plutocratic hellscape. Alicia Wanless, Eve Gaumond, and Jonathan Rauch join in.68. Ukraine, South Africa, and the Arctic
01:01:24||Season 4, Ep. 68Wherein Ben announces the launch of a new podcast on the history of US-Ukraine relations, and Holly Berkley Fletcher and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss how Trump is screwing around in South Africa and the Arctic.67. Hypothetical War Crimes
01:02:37||Season 4, Ep. 67Wherein Ben discusses the barriers to US occupation of Gaza, Eve Gaumond discusses tariffs, and Shane Harris discusses the CIA.66. The FBI Fights Back
01:02:14||Season 4, Ep. 66Wherein Ben talks about the resistance to Trump from within the FBI and welcomes Jonathan Rauch to talk about public responses to corrupt government.65. Tariffs
01:02:41||Season 4, Ep. 65Wherein Ben welcomes Stephanie Carvin, a Canadian political scientist, to discuss Trump's newly imposed tariffs and their impact on, well, everything.64. Ethics and Ambition
01:03:33||Season 4, Ep. 64Wherein Ben takes a step back from our many crises and muses on the ethical obligations of career civil servants, to what extent presidential administrations actually get to set their own agendas, and other questions in the background of the current moment. Eve Gaumond and John Hawkinson weigh in.63. Kash Patel, Mid-Air Collisions, and Other Chaos
01:01:13||Season 4, Ep. 63Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss how much Kash Patel sucks, the military situation in Eastern Congo, last night's plane crash, and anything else on their minds. John Hawkinson drops in to clarify the current status of US foreign aid.