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“The hyperreal is the real. The surreal is the real in The United States. We’ve reached that point. The absurd is the real. And so that’s what I was trying to capture in the book.” — Ben Fountain Our absurdist-in-chief wants a $250 banknote with his face on it. But…

Episode 2935: Michael Mandelbaum on the American Way of Foreign Policy https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-unexceptional-exceptionalism?utm_source=youtube

“The United States has conducted an unusually ideological foreign policy, an unusually economic foreign policy, and an unusually democratic foreign policy. These three features have been present from the eighteenth century to the present.” — Michael Mandelbaum Is there an “American way” of foreign policy? Does that make the now…

Episode 2934: Matthew Campbell on the Man Who Got Away With Stealing the Gods https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-jeffrey-epstein-of-antiquities?utm_source=youtube