#440 — A World in Crisis

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So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one. I am here with Robert Kaplan. Robert, thanks for joining me. It's a pleasure to be here. So I've been a fan of your work for uh many, many years.

I think uh like half of humanity I was first introduced to you when you wrote that. rather shocking article in the Atlantic in 1994, the The Coming Anarchy, which um I think was probably the most read piece in the magazine for quite some time. I I don't know if it's been supplanted by anything in in recent years, but that article was everywhere. Yes. See, remember it was the nineteen nineties.

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