Ep 198: Robert D. Kaplan on Crisis
Robert D. Kaplan, Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis, joins the show to discuss the world’s current state of “permanent crisis”.
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Show Notes
Robert D. Kaplan, Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis, joins the show to discuss the world’s current state of “permanent crisis”.
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Times
• 01:40 Introduction
• 02:00 Far Rockaway
• 04:55 Balkan Ghosts
• 08:20 Geography and technology
• 10:55 Weimar
• 13:43 Mediocrities
• 17:44 Reading deeply
• 20:30 Shakespeare
• 23:20 Where to watch
• 26:59 Xi and Taiwan
• 28:39 Sacred honor
• 31:22 Post-modern cities
• 33:28 AI and atrophy
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