Ep 198: Robert D. Kaplan on Crisis

School of War · May 20, 2025 · 38m

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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