In this second episode of the Burning Archive podcast, Dr Jeff Rich talks about how the United States of America is an empire in denial, and how we can respond in our daily lives to the emperor high in heaven - at least those of us in the faraway provinces.
Credits:
* The wonderful Kimiko Ishizaka and the Open Goldberg project, for the public domain recording of the Aria from J.S.Bach's Goldberg Variations https://opengoldbergvariations.org/
* Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: a short history of the Greater United States (2019) - quotation
* Hoover Institution Goodfellows podcast - Question Time! (14 April 2021) short clip featuring Niall Ferguson, H.R. McMaster and Bill Whalen, quoted in support of scholarship.
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2. Empire in Denial