From Imperial Agent to Anti-War Advocate: Interview w/ Lyle Jeremy Rubin | Ep. 127

Lyle Jeremy Rubin joins the podcast to talk about his new memoir "Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming." Lyle and Van discuss the way that hypocrisy radicalizes people, the trouble with imperialism, the psychosexual insecurities mixed into military life, how personal violence affects foreign policy, the Karate Kid, the paradoxically traumatizing lack of combat on the front lines of war, and much more. Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body: https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/...Guest Website: https://www.lylejeremyrubin.comPodcast: https://www.undiplomaticpodcast.comBuy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/undiplom...Newsletter: https://www.un-diplomatic.comReadings:Aime Cesaire, Discourses on Colonialism: https://www.amazon.com/Discourse-Colonialism-Aimé-Césaire/dp/1583670254William James, "The Moral Equivalent of War": https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/James/James_1911_11.htmlNikhil Pal Singh, Black is a Country: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674019515Nikhil Pal Singh, Race and America's Long War: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520318304/race-and-americas-long-warChristopher Lasch, The True and Only Heaven: https://www.amazon.com/True-Only-Heaven-Progress-Critics/dp/0393307956