On the Next TGS Live: Shadi Hamid, Daniel Bessner & Andrew Day on American Power
Tomorrow, Friday, May 1 at 2:00 P.M. EDT
On this week’s livestream (tomorrow, May 1 at 2:00 P.M. EDT) I’ve got an outstanding lineup of guests for you. We’ll be talking about the uses and abuses of American military power abroad. It’s a perennial topic of concern, and of late it’s been creating strange bedfellows. Rejoining the show, we have two skeptics, one from the right and one from the left: American Conservative senior editor Andrew Day and University of Washington historian Daniel Bessner. I last had Andrew and Danny on the show to debate the Iran War with my friend Larry Kotlikoff, Boston University economist and staunch supporter of both the war and Israel. As you may remember, sparks flew.
My third guest is the writer and political scientist Shadi Hamid. Shadi has condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as its role in the Iran War. But his latest book, The Case for American Power, argues that America ought to use its power—including military power—as a force for moral good in the world. That includes intervening in humanitarian crises even when the nations instigating them would rather we didn’t. Despite our spotty record, Shadi says, the U.S. is better placed than any nation on Earth to promote democracy and stop needless slaughter.
I’ll speak with each of my guests individually before convening all of us into a roundtable to conclude the show. I would guess that both Andrew and Danny will have their issues with Shadi’s position. But to be honest, I’m not quite sure what any of them are going to say, as all of them are creative thinkers and expert craftsmen of unexpected arguments. See, for example, Andrew’s latest piece on his ideas for the right after MAGA and Danny’s latest on what he sees as the end of American supremacy and the coming “pyramidal multipolar order.”
That’s the way we like it here at TGS: deep, unpredictable, and spontaneous. So join me tomorrow, May 1 at 2:00 P.M. EDT, for what promises to be an exciting stream.
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