Ep 198: Robert D. Kaplan on Crisis

Robert D. Kaplan, Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis, joins the show to discuss the world’s current state of “permanent crisis”. 

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Times 

    •      01:40 Introduction

    •      02:00 Far Rockaway 

    •      04:55 Balkan Ghosts

    •      08:20 Geography and technology  

    •      10:55 Weimar    

    •      13:43 Mediocrities

    •      17:44 Reading deeply      

    •      20:30 Shakespeare  

    •      23:20 Where to watch 

    •      26:59 Xi and Taiwan     

    •      28:39 Sacred honor

    •      31:22 Post-modern cities   

    •      33:28 AI and atrophy    

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