1. I spoke with Aaron Maté on his show — “Push Back” — about Ukraine and NATO:
2. I wrote an article for the August 2023 issue of Le Monde Diplomatique on Realism and contemporary great-power politics. I posted the French version in my previous post. Here is the English version, although it is behind a paywall now:
The interview with Aaron was awesome and and as always so are you. Thanks.
It is a real shame we cannot read the article without a subscription. I imagine the author has some reasons for this. I don't think it was intentionally done. I imagine the author made an exclusive agreement with La Monde for this one article. It's not entirely improbable that he didn't know when he made the agreement that we would be required to pay for a second subscription. I do hope the agreement has a time limit for exclusivity. If we just wait, maybe we will be able to read this soon.
I also hope future articles will be published here at the same as they are published elsewhere and free from a paywall. While I know we are paying for whatever article this author chooses to publish here on Substack, not necessarily every piece he chooses to be published anywhere. Yet, I am subscribed to this Substack because I want to read what the author has to say. If not not everything he writes, then at least most of it.
Thank you. - TD