Starcast Join the waitlist
The New Yorker Radio Hour

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Trump’s New Brand of Imperialism

Jan 9, 2026 · 32m

Coming soon to iPhone. Already have it? “Listen in Starcast” takes you straight there.

On this episode

About this episode

The historian Daniel Immerwahr says Trump’s embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests—it’s an appeal to masculinity which “seems to sell.”