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If you want more of this, in conversational form, I spoke with my friends @dwdavison.bsky.social & Danny Bessner for a very Dead Cheney episode of @amprestigepod.bsky.social:
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
If you want more of this, in conversational form, I spoke with my friends @dwdavison.bsky.social & Danny Bessner for a very Dead Cheney episode of @amprestigepod.bsky.social:
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This site is incredible. Apparently there are hundreds of people who think I was truly referring to myself as a “hero” being “slandered.”
This site, and this world, is cooked
This site, and this world, is cooked
July 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This site is incredible. Apparently there are hundreds of people who think I was truly referring to myself as a “hero” being “slandered.”
This site, and this world, is cooked
This site, and this world, is cooked
I’ll have you know I was sanctioned by Russia
i really liked this essay for tearing up weird putin apologists like moyn, bessner, and others, but also for highlighting a fact that i think should be central to our understanding of foreign policy going forward: autocrats are going to fear democracy *no matter what we do*
July 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I’ll have you know I was sanctioned by Russia
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July 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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not that this matters bc these geniuses don’t care about the truth but: a) I’m a nonresident fellow at Quincy which is an unpaid position, and b) Quincy is funded by tons of donors, including Soros’ Open Society foundation, and many more
dan bessner has a koch-funded fellowship at the quincy institute
Insanely stupid thing to post
July 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
not that this matters bc these geniuses don’t care about the truth but: a) I’m a nonresident fellow at Quincy which is an unpaid position, and b) Quincy is funded by tons of donors, including Soros’ Open Society foundation, and many more
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For more, including up-to-date discussion on where things stand in LA & beyond, the boys @dwdavison.bsky.social & Danny Bessner hosted me this morning for a special edition of American Prestige in which I talk fast and frequently shout:
June 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
For more, including up-to-date discussion on where things stand in LA & beyond, the boys @dwdavison.bsky.social & Danny Bessner hosted me this morning for a special edition of American Prestige in which I talk fast and frequently shout:
The fact that so many people gleefully reposted a review that begins with “a gross and arguably racist insinuation” says a lot about modern academia. I hope you’re all proud of yourselves
I also disagree with Steinmetz-Jenkins, Moyn, Bessner, et al on the "fascism" question, but that is just a terrible review. Petty, tendentious, with a gross and arguably racist insinuation in the first graf (which the author Trumpily passes off with an "it has been suggested").
May 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The fact that so many people gleefully reposted a review that begins with “a gross and arguably racist insinuation” says a lot about modern academia. I hope you’re all proud of yourselves
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New episode of White Canon is up! This time, we talk with Shamira Ibrahim and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige podcast) about Spielberg's epic Saving Private Ryan!
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Saving Private Ryan w/Shamira Ibrahim & Daniel Bessner
Podcast Episode · The White Canon · 05/05/2025 · 1h 47m
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May 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New episode of White Canon is up! This time, we talk with Shamira Ibrahim and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige podcast) about Spielberg's epic Saving Private Ryan!
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Great to talk with @dbessner.bsky.social about the situation jacobin.com/2025/04/trum...
The Courts Won’t Save Us
Just 100 days into Donald Trump’s second term, some wonder if the US faces a constitutional crisis. Yale law professor Samuel Moyn tells Jacobin that, rather than resisting authoritarianism, the court...
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April 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Great to talk with @dbessner.bsky.social about the situation jacobin.com/2025/04/trum...
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Here’s where one can read Besser’s actual thoughts on Trump rather than Ryan Cooper’s lazy take.
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This Is America
Donald Trump’s authoritarian second term has led critics to describe him as a fascist in the mold of Adolf Hitler. But Trump’s reactionary politics are all-American — and the path to defeating him run...
jacobin.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Here’s where one can read Besser’s actual thoughts on Trump rather than Ryan Cooper’s lazy take.
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you have a mental problem
March 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
you have a mental problem
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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
On Trump's foreign policy, during his sequel presidency.
@dbessner.bsky.social + @alex1789.bsky.social + Dr. LeeJones team up to discuss how this era of rot and decay will play out from Ukraine to China and beyond.
LINK: https://buff.ly/42s5yKJ
On Trump's foreign policy, during his sequel presidency.
@dbessner.bsky.social + @alex1789.bsky.social + Dr. LeeJones team up to discuss how this era of rot and decay will play out from Ukraine to China and beyond.
LINK: https://buff.ly/42s5yKJ
January 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
On Trump's foreign policy, during his sequel presidency.
@dbessner.bsky.social + @alex1789.bsky.social + Dr. LeeJones team up to discuss how this era of rot and decay will play out from Ukraine to China and beyond.
LINK: https://buff.ly/42s5yKJ
On Trump's foreign policy, during his sequel presidency.
@dbessner.bsky.social + @alex1789.bsky.social + Dr. LeeJones team up to discuss how this era of rot and decay will play out from Ukraine to China and beyond.
LINK: https://buff.ly/42s5yKJ
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Daniel Bessner in the new @thenation.com on Chomsky and Nathan Robinson's The Myth of American Idealism and the politics of anti-imperialism www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.
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January 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Daniel Bessner in the new @thenation.com on Chomsky and Nathan Robinson's The Myth of American Idealism and the politics of anti-imperialism www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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daniel fucking bessner
Never going to forget the years that various axe-grinding academics spent smugly chiding anyone who dared call this fascism
Incoming president declares that "violent SCUM" has "infiltrated all aspects of our government and our Nation" and must be stopped through "strength and powerful leadership"... This won't end well.
January 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
daniel fucking bessner
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Entanglements: Who actually runs U.S. foreign policy? Daniel Bessner on why elections come and go without major changes in American grand strategy.
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Entanglements
Who actually runs U.S. foreign policy? Daniel Bessner on why elections come and go without major changes in American grand strategy.
www.thesgnl.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Entanglements: Who actually runs U.S. foreign policy? Daniel Bessner on why elections come and go without major changes in American grand strategy.
www.thesgnl.com/2024/10/who-...
www.thesgnl.com/2024/10/who-...
Wow so much for honest engagement … this is just disinformation ran amuck
November 16, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Wow so much for honest engagement … this is just disinformation ran amuck
Thank you for your service
November 16, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Thank you for your service
Great now the communists are mad at me
November 11, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Great now the communists are mad at me
Jeeeez I thought blue sky was about love <3
November 10, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Jeeeez I thought blue sky was about love <3
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times
November 9, 2024 at 3:43 PM
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times