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Last week I had the extraordinary good fortune to speak with Reuben Keith Green, a retired US Navy officer and the author of Black Officer, White Navy, a new memoir available from the University Press of Kentucky. Reuben’s memoir covers his youth, his decision to join the Navy, his naval career (including a command stint in the Pegasus PHM squadron), and his reasons for eventually leaving the service. On the podcast we discuss all of these issues. Reuben continues to work extensively on racial issues in the US Navy, including the prospective renaming of the John C. Stennis.







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I had the opportunity yesterday to speak with LGM Blogger Emeritus Dave Brockington about the upcoming British general election. Quick summary, things do not look great for the Tories, but Labour is inheriting a lot of intractable problems. We also talked a bit about the results of the European Parliament elections and the big, extremely dangerous bet that Macron made on dissolving the National Assembly.







Transcript available here.

On this august day of blogospheric history, Scott and I are proud to publish our interview with Duncan Black, better known in some circles as Atrios, the long-term proprietor of Eschaton. We talk through a LOT of the history of the blogosphere, but for my money the best part is when all three of us blank on the name of Lee Siegel, better known by his troll name Sprezzatura. It is truly fitting that largely the only reason anyone recalls the existence of Siegel is the Heel Turn that Captured the Attention of the Internet. Anyway, please give it a listen and drop a quarter into not only our jar, but also that of Atrios…







Transcript available here.









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A couple of weeks ago Scott and I had the opportunity to speak with Jill Filipovic, late of Feministe and a wide variety of other publications. She currently writes at her own Substack, on her own twitter feed, and in a bunch of other venues that you shouldn’t have any trouble finding. We talked about the relationship between the feminist blogosphere and the political blogosphere writ large, about changes in cross-ideological engagement, about the rise of twitter, and finally about the difficulties of managing communities of commenters.







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Who is as ready for the NFL Draft as we here at LGM? No one! Scott, Rob, and I sat down last night to hash through a bunch of the issues in the draft, including the state of the quarterbacks. We also more or less went through the first half of the first round, considered trade options, and I think made fun of the Broncos. At least I hope we did. Draft starts tonight, we will have a thread on it.







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Last week Cheryl and I had the opportunity to speak with Kathleen McInnis, Senior Fellow in the International Security Program and Director of the Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. We talked about the Russia-Ukraine War, the glacial progress towards an aid agreement in the US House of Representatives, the 75th anniversary of the founding of the NATO alliance, and finally Kathleen’s work engaging with and promoting the work of women in the field of national security. Give it a listen!







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