For today’s show, Thursday host Allen Ruff talks to historian Alfred McCoy about the long history of empire through the lens of his new book, To Govern the Globe. Alfred McCoy is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he teaches and researches modern Philippine social and political history, U.S. foreign policy, colonial […]
The U.S. Global Position After Afghanistan
The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan has had and will continue to have ripple effects on the United States’ relationship to the rest of the world. For today’s show, Thursday host Allen Ruff spends the hour with historian Alfred McCoy talking about the future of U.S. global power after the fall of Kabul. Alfred […]
The Decline of U.S. Global Power
Like Rip Van Winkle, Americans have woken up to a different world after four years in the haze of Trump’s presidency, says historian Alfred McCoy. Today, he joins Allen to discuss the current state of U.S. imperial decline. Alfred McCoy is Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of […]
Al McCoy on the Decline of the US Empire
Allen Ruff’s guest is historian and public intellectual Alfred McCoy. He’s the Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and author of several books, including The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia and Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. The two discuss his recent piece […]
