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This is Democracy – The Ukraine War

By Jeremi Suri

In this week’s episode, Jeremi and Zachary are joined by Michael Kimmage to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Zachary sets the scene with his poem entitled “For a War of Worlds.”

Dr. Michael Kimmage is a professor of history at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. He is also a fellow at the German Marshall Fund and chair of the Advisory Council for the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. From 2014 to 2017, Kimmage served on the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, where he held the Russia/Ukraine portfolio. He publishes widely on international affairs, U.S.-Russian relations, and American diplomatic history. Dr. Kimmage is the author of The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (2009); In History’s Grip: Philip Roth’s Newark Trilogy (2012); The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy (2020). His forthcoming book is Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability (2024).

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