Rocinante – Details, episodes & analysis

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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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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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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Sean and Angela are joined by returning guest Malcom Kyeyune to discuss the Israeli-American war of aggression against Iran. Can the Trump administration walk away from this or the off ramp in the rearview mirror? Can America survive another million soul human sacrifice in the Middle East? What will the 'Donald the Dove' voters do with all of these Fell For It Again awards? 

Malcom Kyeyune: https://unherd.com/author/malcom-kyeyune/

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This week, Angela and Sean read The Anatomy of Power By John Kenneth Galbraith. Are we moving backwards into a more brutal age of pure coercion? Does Galbraith's framework make sense three decades after the end of Cold War? Should we find and post the names and home addresses of twitter users who have the incorrect interpretation of Errico Malatesta's Between Peasants: A Dialogue on Anarchy?

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Angela and Sean consider the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis, Tucker’s induction into Grand Lodge of Ireland, audience capture, the parasocial impulse to milk the lolcow dry, and the rise of center right globe emoji drillers.

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Sean and Angela discuss Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, if art can survive the universal solvent of the internet, the dull managers of hard power guiding the antisocial artisan/conduits of soft power, and the rewards (getting paid by the Knights of Malta) and risks (dying of malaria in Tuscany) of Doing the Race.

Caravaggio ~ Robert Hughes Full Documentary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Caravaggio

https://open.substack.com/pub/angelanagle/p/can-you-fight-the-illiterate-future

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Behind the paywall the conversation with Peter continues: the agony and the ecstasy of controlling the global reserve currency, Chinese economics and Carey thought, state development, economic protectionism, cryptocurrency, Il Duce on the small screen, and more.

https://x.com/_PeterRyan

https://www.ryanresearch.co/

https://substack.com/@ryanresearch

Read John Hely Hutchinson's The Commercial Restraints of Ireland:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38841/38841-h/38841-h.htm

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Sean and Angela are joined by Peter Ryan of Ryan Research to discuss industrialization and manufacturing as a tool of national liberation and colonial domination, anarchocapitalist elite enclosure past and present, the tariff situation (as it existed at time of recording), Matthew and Henry Carey, and walking the shining path of Hibernian Excellence.

https://x.com/_PeterRyan

https://www.ryanresearch.co/

https://substack.com/@ryanresearch

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Sean and Angela answer questions asked by our beloved Patreon and Substack subscribers. If you would like to submit questions of your own, become a paid subscriber and join the conversation!

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