NM84 | Journalist James Pogue on American futures

From AI to global power alignments to domestic political sentiments in the US and EU, 2024 is shaping up to be a frontier zone year of an era to come. Joining us on this episode is journalist James Pogue who is no stranger to the edges of the political present and uncommonly adept at anticipating where they lead. When Pogue last came on the show in 2022, his piece on America’s New Right for Vanity Fair had just gone viral. More recently, he’s been penning a three-part series for Granta magazine on the turbulent power games in the resource rich Sahel region, where he spent the better part of last year. We discuss both on this episode, unmooring ideations of what ‘Right’ and ‘Left’ now mean.For more: @jameshensonpogue (X)James Pogue, “Gold Fever in the Coup Belt: The Mines of Mauritania,” Granta, 2024James Pogue, “Wagner in Africa,” Granta, 2024James Pogue, “Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets,” Vanity Fair, 2022NM54 | Damn Nation w/ journalist James Pogue (Nov. 2022)