Rocinante (Sean P. McCarthy and Angela Nagle)

Sean and Angela debut Rocinante with a discussion of Gore Vidal's Inventing a Nation.

Inventing a Nation: https://www.powells.com/book/inventing-a-nation-washington-adams-jefferson-9780300101713

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Angela Nagle: https://angelanagle.substack.com/

Sean P. McCarthy: https://seanpmccarthy.substack.com/

This episode was recorded last month before we ironed out all of the details of the show, the first post-christening episodes will release this week. There are several other episodes you can find on Sean and Angela's substacks, linked below.

We get Malcom's take on what is really going on with DOGE, discuss his trip to Washington and compare US versus Chinese military capacities.

You can read his piece in American Affairs here:

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/02/americas-national-security-wonderland/

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In our first bonus episode Sean and Angela try to make sense of the ever-changing tariff situation, consider reproductive technology as the next frontier in the new Cold War, and review this weeks atrocities from the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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