From Imperial Agent to Anti-War Advocate: Interview w/ Lyle Jeremy Rubin | Ep. 127 - a podcast by Van Jackson
from 2022-10-17T03:35:03
Lyle Jeremy Rubin joins the podcast to talk about his new memoir "Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming." Lyle and Van discuss the way that hypocrisy radicalizes people, the trouble with imperialism, the psychosexual insecurities mixed into military life, how personal violence affects foreign policy, the Karate Kid, the paradoxically traumatizing lack of combat on the front lines of war, and much more.
Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body: https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/...
Guest Website: https://www.lylejeremyrubin.com
Podcast: https://www.undiplomaticpodcast.com
Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/undiplom...
Newsletter: https://www.un-diplomatic.com
Readings:
Aime Cesaire, Discourses on Colonialism: https://www.amazon.com/Discourse-Colonialism-Aimé-Césaire/dp/1583670254
William James, "The Moral Equivalent of War": https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/James/James_1911_11.html
Nikhil Pal Singh, Black is a Country: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674019515
Nikhil Pal Singh, Race and America's Long War: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520318304/race-and-americas-long-war
Christopher Lasch, The True and Only Heaven: https://www.amazon.com/True-Only-Heaven-Progress-Critics/dp/0393307956
Further episodes of The Un-Diplomatic Podcast
Further podcasts by Van Jackson
Website of Van Jackson