61(P) - Demystifying the Military-Industrial-Intellectual Complex ft. Daniel Bessner (Patreon)

Daniel Bessner (@DBessner) joins us to follow up last week's episode on the RAND corporation. The intellectual underpinnings of the post-WWII national defense consensus. How did Eisenhower and JFK's administrations frame the Cold War? How Democrat Scoop Jackson introduced Neoconservatism in the mainstream bloodstream. How defense intellectuals reacted to the post-Cold War era and the takeoff of American exceptionalism. The need to construct enemies in after the fall of the USSR. Why the #Resistance needs to stop defending people like James Comey and James Clapper.

Check out Daniel's book, "Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual."