Lyle Jeremy Rubin — Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body - with Stephen Wertheim
November 21, 2022
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as posted by the channelPain is Weakness Leaving the Body is a story of profound personal and political change. Rubin, a supervisor of men ordered to kill, shares his experiences on training bases in North Carolina, California, and Afghanistan, tracking his increasing disaffection with military culture, and his evolution into an activist for peace. Rubin brings us face to face in this argument-driven memoir with the U.S.’s presence in the Middle East, all while analyzing the racism, class divides, and culture of conquest that oil the machinery of American empire.
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Lyle Jeremy Rubin is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan who writes about capitalism and U.S. empire. He has a doctorate in history from the University of Rochester and has contributed to a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, Raritan, and n+1. When he is not working or reading, he likes to pay attention to the birds.
Rubin is in conversation with Stephen Wertheim, a historian of U.S. foreign policy and an analyst of contemporary problems in American grand strategy. He is a Senior Fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as well as a Distinguished Lecturer in History at Catholic University and a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. Wertheim is the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy, which reveals how the United States decided to pursue global military dominance as an effectively perpetual project. He was named one of “the world’s 50 top thinkers for the Covid-19 age” by Prospect magazine. His essays have appeared in the Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. Wertheim was previously Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a think-tank he co-founded in 2019. He received a PhD in History from Columbia University in 2015.
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