Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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0:00 Courtney’s and Alex’s Always at War podcast
4:44 Have restrainers given up on Trump?
10:46 The legacies of Hamilton Jordan
16:07 Courtney: Money drives war
25:16 Palantir cashes in
32:21 Alex: Blame American exceptionalism first
43:18 Heading to Overtime

Discussed in Overtime:
What Bob believes leads nations to war.
Cognitive biases in international relations.
Ideological think tanks and the media.
Will Americans ever see through the propaganda?

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Alex Jordan (The Quincy Institute, Always at War), and Courtney Rawlings (The Quincy Institute, Always at War). Recorded June 23, 2025.

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