Ep 104: Peter Feaver on “Wokeness,” Politics, and the Military

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Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Thanks For Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military, joins the show to talk about the state of civil-military relations in America, and to call for a truce on the issue of “wokism.”

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Times

• 01:46 Introduction

• 2:40 Precedents

• 4:18 Citizen soldier to today

• 11:40 Expanding fissures

• 18:46 Downsides to a high approval rating

• 25:04 Isolationism and “wokeness”

• 33:56 Sloppy discourse

• 38:16 An echo of the ’90s

• 41:11 Progress

• 48:28 Race/Sexuality/Gender

• 55:03 A bit of Sparta in Athens

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