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LGM Podcast: The Most Awful Responsibility

Alex Wellerstein’s The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age challenges standard preconceptions of President Harry Truman’s role in using nuclear weapons. It goes on to trace Truman’s role in developing policy around nuclear weapons, including civilian control and sole authority. It’s an important book. Truman was faced with an utterly new situation that he knew little about. It’s easy for us to forget that there was a time when nuclear weapons didn’t exist. Alex gives a picture of when that changed. There are lessons for today. Rob Farley and I interviewed Alex last week. Alex talks about how he came to the subject and Roosevelt’s irresponsibility. Check it out. Rob apologizes for his substandard audio. Transcript is here. Apple Podcasts Android Youtube Podchaser Podcast Index Subscribe by E-mail Audible Spotify Amazon Music The post LGM Podcast: The Most Awful Responsibility appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money.

LGM Podcast: If You Love It, Let It Kill You

On the latest LGM podcast Scott and I were fortunate enough to speak with Hannah Pittard, professor at the University of Kentucky and author of several novels, including If You Love It, Let It Kill You. Hannah was part of a a New York magazine profile that covered the dissolution of her marriage, also detailed in her autobiographical work We Are Too Many. Our conversation ranged from these works to life in Lexington to talking cats to the struggle of engaging with the modern student. Give it a listen, especially if you’re the sort of person who waits until the last last last last moment to finish off your Christmas list… Transcript is here. Apple Podcasts Android Youtube Podchaser Podcast Index Subscribe by E-mail Audible Spotify Amazon Music The post LGM Podcast: If You Love It, Let It Kill You appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money.

LGM Podcast: The Trump NSS

On the latest LGM Podcast, the National Security Gang (NSG, or me, Dan, and Cheryl) talked through the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy, which Cheryl better characterized as “a long expansion of Fourteen Words.” We discussed its vision of a cultural war against the American left and against Europe, its Utopian aspirations, and what it might say about the future of conflict within the administration. Here’s a link to the NSS itself, and what some other folks are saying… Rick Landgraf Meghan Myers on what the longer version included Brookings breakdown Transcript available here. Apple Podcasts Android Youtube Podchaser Podcast Index Subscribe by E-mail Audible Spotify Amazon Music The post LGM Podcast: The Trump NSS appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money.

LGM Podcast: Twenty-Eight Points

On the latest LGM Podcast Cheryl, Dan, and myself talk through the “peace” deal that the Trump administration attempted to foist upon Europe, Ukraine, and possibly Russia last week. We work through what we now know of the several-day process of revealing the plan, discuss its prospects, and then move to a point-by-point discussion of its elements. Time constraints prevented us from getting all the way through, which is probably for the best because the plan has now been reduced to nineteen points. Our assessment? This is less a plan than a mess of contradictory impulses, and it will be a struggle to develop anything useful out of it. Some links: The plan, annotated The plan, annotated again. Thoughts on the origins of the plan. Rubio tries to make the plan make sense. Ukraine’s reaction. Transcript is here. Apple Podcasts Android Youtube Podchaser Podcast Index Subscribe by E-mail Audible Spotify Amazon Music Photo Credit: By Dsns.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=173759048 The post LGM Podcast: Twenty-Eight Points appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money.

LGM Podcast: NFL Midseason Report

On the latest LGM Podcast Scott, Erik, and I jabbered about this most unusual NFL season. We recorded on Wednesday evening and nothing about the result of last night’s Buffalo-Houston game exactly transformed our conclusions, rather reinforcing the enigma that is the Josh Allen Bills. We also decided to just go ahead and publish the whole thing rather than break it into two parts, so save this one for a really long drive/run/walk/train ride/colonoscopy. Transcript is here. Apple Podcasts Android Youtube Podchaser Podcast Index Subscribe by E-mail Audible Spotify Amazon Music The post LGM Podcast: NFL Midseason Report appeared first on Lawyers, Guns & Money.