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Beyond Ideology is a publication and podcast built on a simple idea: politics is downstream of history, culture, and human nature. Most commentary chases outrage, we trace the ideas, art, and historical forces that actually shape the world.
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The Long Shadow of the Troubles (opens the original)
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This week, I sat down with Michael McDowell, a Northern Irish journalist, academic, and diplomat who played a pivotal role in securing American support for the peace process in Ireland that culminated in the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Following the peace, Michael helped establish the Independent Monitoring Commission to ensure that both the IRA and Protestant paramilitaries complied with the process of decommissioning, disarmament, and the broader end of paramilitary activity. The Commission
Gore Vidal’s America (opens the original)
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There is something incredibly subversive about beginning a seven-volume historical epic of the rise and fall of the American empire with arch-villain Aaron Burr. Yet that is exactly what Gore Vidal did, and one would expect nothing less from America’s contrarian-in-chief.In our inaugural guest episode, I’m joined by Michael Preedy, writer and founder of Making Sentences, a literary publication that explores “writers, their work, and their ideas, revealing how they help us understand ourselves, o
Fool’s Gold (opens the original)
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The World’s Only Successful Slave Revolt (opens the original)
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The American Revolution declared that all men were created equal. The French Revolution proclaimed the Rights of Man. In Haiti, enslaved people took those promises literally.In 1791, a massive slave revolt erupted on the Caribbean island of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti), the crown jewel of the French Empire. What followed was much more than a mere rebellion; it became the most far-reaching movement of the Age of Revolutions.In this episode of Beyond Ideology, we trace the Haitian Revolution
The Polish Lafayette (opens the original)
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