ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What happens when power encounters a reflection it does not like?
Trump’s confrontation with the press and his confrontation with Iran are radically different in scale, but both reveal the same deeper problem: power does not always produce obedience. Journalists can resist, courts can intervene, and foreign states can refuse to submit.
This analysis explores the distinction between force and authority, coercion and recognition, and asks whether the growing need to demonstrate power may actually reveal its limits.
English
United States
TRANSCRIPT 🔗
Are you the producer of this podcast?
Add a podcast transcript
Need Audio-to-Text?
Transcribe with Listen411 in Just 60 Seconds
OTHER EPISODES IN THIS PODCAST
What do Alfred Hitchcock’s blondes, Natalie Harp, Donald Trump, and tactical nuclear weapons have in common? Blondes, Nukes and Decadence explores a strange but revealing connection between image, power, and decline. Hitchcock showed how dangerous it can be when reality is forced to conform to fant…
What if the monuments, gold, AI fantasies and politics of fear surrounding Donald Trump are not signs of strength, but ways of covering weakness?
In “Golden Taps, Muddy Water,” The Axis examines how architecture, political spectacle and imaginary victories can create the appearance of greatness whi…
Donald Trump has spent years attacking socialism. Yet his government intervenes in prices, protects industries, acquires stakes in private companies, uses tariffs strategically, supports farmers and now even proposes direct payments to Americans.
So, is Trump becoming a socialist?
Perhaps that is t…
Is Donald Trump's foreign policy madness, incompetence—or something deeper?
As the United States struggles to convert military superiority over Iran into a decisive political outcome, China is presenting itself as an alternative centre of global influence. Washington can still bomb, sanction a…
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Luis, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
EDIT
Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date.
