Ep 104: Peter Feaver on “Wokeness,” Politics, and the Military
Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Thanks For Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military, joins the show to talk about the state of civil-military relations in America, and to call for a truce on the issue of “wokism.”
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Show Notes
Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Thanks For Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military, joins the show to talk about the state of civil-military relations in America, and to call for a truce on the issue of “wokism.”
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• 01:46 Introduction
• 2:40 Precedents
• 4:18 Citizen soldier to today
• 11:40 Expanding fissures
• 18:46 Downsides to a high approval rating
• 25:04 Isolationism and “wokeness”
• 33:56 Sloppy discourse
• 38:16 An echo of the ’90s
• 41:11 Progress
• 48:28 Race/Sexuality/Gender
• 55:03 A bit of Sparta in Athens
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