Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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American Prestige podcast hosts Danny Bessner and Derek Davison join Robert Wright in trying to make sense of the second Trump administration's foreign policy, one year in.

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0:00 The incoherence of Trump's foreign policy
7:16 The paucity of debate around Chinese chip restrictions
19:13 Danny: Is this the stupidest foreign policy establishment ever?
25:32 Should AGI worry us?
34:43 Bob’s Overtime bait

Discussed in Overtime:
Danny: The "Autocratic Presidency" was built into the system.
Bessnerian Marxism.
Bob’s actual position on the Israel lobby.
Saudi-UAE rift.
Will Trump bomb Venezuela?
The AI architects on the cover of Time.

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges, American Prestige, Discontents), and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige, University of Washington). Recorded December 11, 2025.

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