{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 6: The World We\u2019ve Made","description":"For many, America\u2019s Cold War victory validated the country\u2019s self-image as a \u201cshining city upon the hill,\u201d whose democratic ideals were worthy of emulation. More than thirty years later, as authoritarianism and ultranationalism surge around the world, it is worth asking whether a dark undercurrent of America\u2019s international conduct is somehow responsible. This week, the Eurasia Group Foundation\u2019s Mark Hannah sits down with Ben Rhodes, President Obama\u2019s deputy national security advisor. Ben grapples with this in his new book, After the Fall: Being American in the World We\u2019ve Made. Though America in many ways remains a worthy exemplar of democracy, Ben identifies several trends in the United States, which eerily echo in Hungary, Russia, and China.    Ben Rhodes is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House, co-host of the podcast, \u201cPod Save the World,\u201d and a contributor to MSNBC. He served in the Obama administration as Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting. You can follow Ben on Twitter at @brhodes.   ","author_name":"None Of The Above","author_url":"https:\/\/www.noneoftheabovepodcast.org\/","html":"