A conversational waltz with Garance Franke-Ruta

My latest bloggingheads.tv duet is up — this one is with The American Prospect’s Garance Franke-Ruta (who has her own blog, as well as a detailed explanation of the origins of her name). Topics include whether Barack Obama and John McCain would pursue similar interventionist foreign policies; why GOP candidates are “Hollywood whores”; the death ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and the author of The Ideas Industry.

My latest bloggingheads.tv duet is up -- this one is with The American Prospect's Garance Franke-Ruta (who has her own blog, as well as a detailed explanation of the origins of her name). Topics include whether Barack Obama and John McCain would pursue similar interventionist foreign policies; why GOP candidates are "Hollywood whores"; the death of neoliberalism; and how liberal journalists are coping with this. Go check it out. UPDATE: One small note: if it seems like I did not pick up on every point Garance made, this had to do with our phone connection. I could not completely hear all of her points.

My latest bloggingheads.tv duet is up — this one is with The American Prospect’s Garance Franke-Ruta (who has her own blog, as well as a detailed explanation of the origins of her name). Topics include whether Barack Obama and John McCain would pursue similar interventionist foreign policies; why GOP candidates are “Hollywood whores”; the death of neoliberalism; and how liberal journalists are coping with this. Go check it out. UPDATE: One small note: if it seems like I did not pick up on every point Garance made, this had to do with our phone connection. I could not completely hear all of her points.

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and the author of The Ideas Industry. Twitter: @dandrezner

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