Ben Rhodes
American writer and political commentator; Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications to Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017, co-host of Pod Save the World, and author of The World as It Is (2018) and After the Fall (2021).
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Recommends Travelers in the Third Reich
And then lastly, a book I read uh very recently, this last few days, uh is called um Travelers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd. And what she did is she found letters, journals, other contemporary accounts of basically British and Americans visiting Nazi Germany. And and so what were their impressions? Did they see and you know, spoiler, way too many of them did not see how bad this is going to be or were sympathetic.
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Recommends The World of Yesterday
Um then I personally, as someone who's been trying to make sense of what it's like to live in a collapsing liberal order, um The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig I found myself reading twice since Trump's election.
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Recommends From the Ruins of Empire
I mean, on this last question, From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra is a really excellent kind of intellectual history of for lack of a better way of putting it, you know, people global south or people in decolonized spaces um in the 20th century uh coming up with alternatives to Western hegemony.
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Newsletter Notes on the Stories We Tell His Substack on foreign policy, US politics and meaning, about weekly
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x.com @brhodes Posts on foreign policy and US politics
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Podcast Pod Save the World Weekly foreign policy podcast he co-hosts with Tommy Vietor
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