Journalist Stephen Kinzer: History’s Lessons for American Foreign Policy in 2017

Stephen Kinzer, Columnist, The Boston Globe; Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University; Author, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
In conversation with Jonathan Curiel, Author; Journalist
As President Trump takes office, how should the United States act in the world? Drawing on his latest book, Stephen Kinzer will transport us back to the early 20th century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate faraway lands. That prospect thrilled some Americans. It horrified others. Their debate gripped the nation. The country’s best-known political and intellectual leaders took sides. Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Randolph Hearst pushed for imperial expansion; Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, and Andrew Carnegie preached restraint. Only once before-in the period when the United States was founded-have so many brilliant Americans so eloquently debated a question so fraught with meaning for all humanity. Join Kinzer as he discusses these impassioned arguments and their great relevance to the world of 2017.
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. Kinzer spent more than 20 years working for The New York Times, where his foreign postings placed him at the center of historic events and, at times, in the line of fire. While covering world events, he has been shot at, jailed, beaten by police, tear-gassed and bombed from the air.

[@hungmanxxxx2462]

Fascinating historical facts which shaped how the US operates today!

[@carolinawren3594]

thank you professor Kinser

[@PAPITO_49]

Very good lecture , thanks

[@Jamesrjs]

Have been an ardent fan and follower of Stephen Kinzer since I first became aware of him; just after "All the Shah's Men" was published and Kinzer was making the public speaking rounds. For those interested in a thoroughly researched, fact-based, ideologically unvarnished recounting of US history, you really can't do better than him--intellectually and historically both rigorous and, above all, honest. Kinzer and his similarly-disposed-and-gifted friend, Chris Hedges, manage to speak truth in a world of fake news, fake history, fake narratives propagated by those courtiers-to-power who provide a pseudo-intellectual veneer to the self-serving narratives of the power-elite.

[@ekbastu]

Roland Jesperson Me too, that book is a vital piece in understanding Iran USA relations today.

[@rosesandsongs21]

This is a great presentation, Mr. Kinzer is always so interesting and as far as I know, historically correct, thank you for this. Also, for an in-depth history of US-Iran relations, you can check ''Manufactured Crisis'' by Gareth Porter here on YT.

[@johnnybates7580]

FYI waterboarding goes back to Rome. Sometimes I can't help think that waterboarding and baptism had a single origin.

[@averayugen7607]

You might be right, I read about that just recently and also it comes out in Joachin Phoenix' latest film "Mary Magdalene"...

[@anoldmannameddave7455]

I love Kinzer’s truths about our imperialist history. I would like to hear his views concerning the oppression of Palestine, which the U.S. taxpayers basically fund,and our government sponsors.

[@joycebovee7073]

this is one of the most imformative talks learned this is not the first time the elite have tried to take over the us helped me not to let it all get to me i am one of the expendibles that would be affected if they agenda was implemented

[@foodtechbuddies911]

😢 Hope many Filipinos will wake up. USA was never kind to us. Till now. What a shame.

[@consandpiracytheorums1563]

I'm losing it. I don't know if I'm going to get through this and I want to racecourse comments for a trail thAt can be followed by my family so they can know what happened to me

[@JohnRobertsTV]

Wonderful comments and Kinzer is very correct about our (American) historical amnesia. On North Korea however, I don't think we really need to work with its neighbors as he says. It would be great if they go along with something, but the U.S. can't let North Korea get a nuclear tipped missile capable of hitting Honolulu. That's one military intervention I would completely support.

[@pilotactor777]

Good luck wih was that.Did you study The Korean war. !That didnt go too well. Support it if you prepared to go yourself.

[@questworldmatrix]

You say that like North Korea has ever gone out of its way to attack America.