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The End of the American Empire

The End of the American Empire

The David Frum Show vor 11 Monaten

The historian Margaret MacMillan on the impact of the Trump-led American withdrawal from world leadership. Plus: David on the corrupting effects of lavish foreign gifts to President Trump and Charles Dickens’s “The Old Curiosity Shop.”

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On this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum
opens with his thoughts on the recent gifts given to President
Donald Trump by the Swiss government. He argues that the incident
is yet another example of Trump’s favor being won through personal
gifts and another sign of how his administration has forced the
United States to abandon its traditional leadership role in the
global order, reshaping American foreign policy into something
closer to that of an extractive predator state. David is then
joined by Margaret MacMillan, emeritus professor of history at the
University of Toronto and emeritus professor of international
history at Oxford University, for a conversation about what a
“post-American” world order might look like. They examine the
United States’ retreat from global leadership under Trump, and
consider whether the U.S. functions as an empire and whether that
empire is now in decline. Finally, David closes with a discussion
of what Charles Dickens’s “The Old Curiosity Shop” can teach us
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