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By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyIt's hard to believe the year is almost over, and it's even harder to believe that we're about to celebrate the first anniversary of the podcast. Early on, I was a bit too ambitious -- hoping to do a show a day. (That lasted about six months, until we settled into a more realistic schedule of two to three shows a week). To be sure, we've had some terrific guests this year (and the year isn't over yet). Picking my favorite shows wasn't easy. I racked my brain to come up with my top 10 choices. Note: Several of my regular guests, like Politico's Shira Toeplitz, former White House press ...
Podcast: Peter Beinart on 'The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn today's podcast Peter Beinart joins us to discuss his new book, "The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris." In our interview, Beinart discusses three examples of American overconfidence. They include Woodrow Wilson and the the hubris of reason; the Kennedy-Johnson hubris of toughness during Vietnam; and lastly, the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq. Beinart argues American history goes through cycles, taking us continually from triumph to hubris to disaster (and back again). Beinart and I also discuss Ronald Reagan, who seems to have balanced foreign policy questions during ...
Bashing AIPAC, Peter Beinart Takes On Unswerving Zionist Zeal
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyThere was a time when to be young, Jewish and affiliated in the United States was also to be unequivocally, passionately, unapologetically Zionist. A zeal for the State of Israel went hand in hand with Jewish identity in the post-war era -- especially the post-Six Day War era. Israel was David and the Arab world was Goliath and only by the grace of God and our donations of money and military assistance did Israel continue as a sheltering home, an ingathering of the exiles, a place, finally, for the Jews of the world to cease their wandering and find a home. Even those of us born in the 1970s ...
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