3. Empire in Decline

If America is an empire in denial, could it also be an empire in decline? In this episode of The Burning Archive podcast, Jeff Rich discusses the stories we tell about the rise and fall of empires, how America is in decline, and what that means for the rest of the world. Could a new multipolar and culturally vibrant world emerge in the outer provinces of the American empire in ruins?

Credits for this show go to John Keane (http://www.johnkeane.net/) Dominic Lieven and the Valdai Club (https://youtu.be/f5itYeF9GpI), and, as ever, to the wonderful Kimiko Ishizaka for her playing of J.S. Bach's Goldberg variations (https://opengoldbergvariations.org/).

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