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The Opening of the American Mind: Dr. George Will on a Conservative Foreign Policy

The Opening of the American Mind: Dr. George Will on a Conservative Foreign Policy

FromThe Burn Bag – National Security and Foreign Policy Redefined


The Opening of the American Mind: Dr. George Will on a Conservative Foreign Policy

FromThe Burn Bag – National Security and Foreign Policy Redefined

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Length:
66 minutes
Released:
Oct 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In the second installment of The Opening of the American Mind, A'ndre and Ryan speak with George Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author, on what it means to practice a 'conservative' foreign policy. Dr. Will, who has published a twice-weekly column in The Washington Post since 1974, provides his definition of what it means to be conservative, discussing the intellectual conservative movement that prospered in the post-war era. He then goes into his views on what a conservative foreign policy actually means, why Reagan and Eisenhower were exemplars of it, and why Donald Trump was not, in his view, conservative. Distinguishing between conservatism and neoconservatism, Dr. Will discusses why he believes liberal internationalism is 'armed humanitarianism',  and the mistakes made in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the broader Middle East. Touching on recent events in the news, Dr. Will talks the U.S.-China rivalry, and his thoughts on the Intelligence Community and the equation of whether security trumps freedoms. We close out the conservation with a short conversation on Dr. Will's new book, American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020, and why Dr. Will abhors denim. Yes, denim.
Released:
Oct 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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