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The Spectator podcast: Trump takes charge

On this week’s podcast we discuss President Trump’s arrival on the world stage, the problem of medicating adult ADHD sufferers, and how virtual reality headsets might change the way we think and work.

First up, Lara Prendergast speaks to Andrew J. Bacevich about his cover story in this week’s magazine. With Trump’s inauguration just a couple of weeks away, his fans and critics have been paying extra attention to the President-elect’s pronouncements, particularly on that most nuanced of platforms, Twitter. Bacevich asks the question of whether Trump will win big, or destroy decades of American foreign policy doctrine. He’s joined on the podcast by the Spectator’s Deputy Editor Freddy Gray.

In this week’s magazine, Andrew J. Bacevich writes that:

“It now falls to Trump to correct the imbalance, something he claims with his trademark swagger that he will do in short order. Should he succeed — should the United States ‘win so much people will say we can’t take it any more’ — some modified version of American globalism may persist.

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