American Affairs

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His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, First Things, American Affairs, and other publications.

His work has been the subject of a 4,000-word profile in the New York Times and is regularly cited by journalists, scholars, and religious leaders working to make sense of American cultural change.

He's also published...

That's sort of like what defines their worldview.

And it's right to point to Gladden Papin, even though he's a bit less of a popular figure, but he was a co-founder of American Affairs Journal, which has been publishing post-liberal stuff since the middle of the 2010s.

And because he was in Hungary and Orban was taking EU subsidies and converting them into you know, grants to these think tanks.

It meant that he, you know, Balash Orban, John O'Sullivan, these figures at like the Danube Institute, Matthias Corvinus Collegium, these were all these think tanks.

Phil is, as a Muslim, I think.

I mean, that's at least what I gathered from his essay in American Affairs, which is really excellent.

I would encourage you to read it after listening to this conversation.

But I think Phil is very much at pains to, well, to come out as a Muslim and to situate his concerns as those of the global Ummah, however fragmented it may be into different countries.

Sorry to disappoint you all.

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So this essay in American Affairs is called The Man Who Was Friday.

It is a reading in part of Olivier Roy and Faisal Devji, two scholars who were essential in the 2000s to understand what needed to be understood, which is to say political Islam.

More recently, Beijing has imposed formal export controls on minerals including gallium, germanium, and graphite amid intensifying technological tensions with the United States.

Writing in American Affairs, the former Mexican ambassador to China argues that Beijing has deliberately sought to make foreign economies dependent upon Chinese intermediate goods while reducing China's own external vulnerabilities.

Intermediate products have reportedly increased from approximately thirty-three percent of Chinese exports when the country joined the WTO in two thousand and one to forty-six percent by twenty twenty-five.

The ambassador, or the former ambassador, also points to State Council Order number eight three four signed by Premier Li Qiang on the thirty-first of March this year.

He has published five books, the most recent of which is Radical Hamilton, Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder.

His articles have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, Fortune, The London Review of Books, American Affairs, Jacobin, Compact, and Covert Action magazine.

I welcome Christian Parenti to Savage Minds.

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There was this great anecdote, uh, early on in the Trump phenomenon.

There was this publication, it does still exist, called American Affairs, and the guy who started it by the name of Julius Krein.

The effort was to put some philosophical and ideological underpinnings to Trumpism, and there were a number of us at the time who looked at that project and said, "This is gonna end in one of two ways.

Um, either you are going to fashion this ideological framework, and at some point you are going to have to willingly depart from Trump because he is inevitably going to contradict it, or you just have to agree to follow the man wherever he goes." And Krei- Krein, to his credit- I think is even less than a year into the publication, basically says like, "Yeah, that's the problem.