The Contrast between AOC and Rubio’s Reception in Munich and the Possibility They Will be Running Against Each Other For President
We begin with the contrast between Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s reception at the Munich Security Conference and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s, with AOC advocating for working class-centered politics and foreign policy while Rubio departed from Munich to Hungary to praise their kleptocratic authoritarian leader Orban as “essential to US interests” and hailed a “golden era of relations” as he desperately tried to help Orban, who is 10 points behind in the upcoming April elections. Joining us to discuss how even right wing parties in Europe are distancing themselves from Trump and the possibility of AOC running for president is Jacob Heilbrunn, the Editor at the National Interest and a non-resident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, a columnist for The Spectator. His books include They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons and America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators. He is also editor-at-large of The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune.
How Trump’s Top-Down Fascism Could Meld With Bottom Up Authoritarianism From America’s Police Forces and Police Unions
Then we look into the possibility that Trump’s top-down fascism could meld with bottom-up authoritarianism from America’s police forces and police unions and speak with Stuart Schrader, a Professor of History and Director of the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on: security, policing, and counterinsurgency; the entwinement of foreign and domestic policy; and urbanization, and he is the author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing and the forthcoming book, Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves. We will discuss his article at The New York Review of Books, “Authoritarianism from Below.”
An AI Video Has Hollywood Alarmed They Could Be Replaced by AI as Wall Street Pours Billions into AI and Tech Bros Buy Up the Media
Then finally we assess the impact of an AI-generated video of Tom Cruise battling Brad Pitt which has Hollywood’s creative community alarmed that the writing is on the wall that they could be replaced by AI which has billions pouring in from Wall Street while Silicon Valley billionaires buy up the media. Joining us is Jonathan Handel, a lawyer and journalist who practices transactional entertainment and technology law who was formerly a professor at UCLA school of Law and was a contributing editor for The Hollywood Reporter. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and his most recent book is Entertainment Residuals: A Full Color Guide.