Daniel Bessner on Imperialism Realism and the Impasse of the Left

Please support our Patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Daniel Bessner is currently an Associate Professor in International Studies at the University of Washington. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a Contributing Editor at Jacobin. In 2019-2020, he served as a foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. Daniel is an intellectual historian of U.S. foreign relations. He...

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