Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Brooks: belief
20 Aug 2025 Conversations with Tyler David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche (Live at 92NY)
“In my view, they were right about the idea that the internal nature of regimes determines the foreign policy of those regimes, that a dictatorship is bound to be more dangerous than a democracy.”
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- David Brooks
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- belief
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- 20 Aug 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Just stand up to evils, even naively, right? In my view, they were right about the idea that the internal nature of regimes determines the foreign policy of those regimes, that a dictatorship is bound to be more dangerous than a democracy. What they and I were wrong about was the belief that we could export democracy from outside. Occupation — you’re like a neocon minus the occupation status.…
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