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March 24, 2024

On Today's Show

On GPS, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET:

First, a horrific terrorist attack near Moscow. After ISIS claimed responsibility for a mass murder at a concert venue, Fareed talks with Daniel Byman—author, director of Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies, and a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Transnational Threats Project—about the state of jihadist terrorism globally and what can be learned from its latest eruption.

Then: The Israel–Hamas war—and questions about what will follow it in the Gaza Strip—have prompted a notable schism between leaders in the US and Israel. Is the Jewish state losing its critical American support? What kind of postwar plan for Gaza might be workable? Fareed discusses with a panel of New York Times columnist Bret Stephens and Daniel Kurtzer, a former US ambassador to both Israel and Egypt.

After that, the new politics of identity. Fareed's new book, "Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present," will be published March 26. Fareed shares with viewers one of the book's arguments: that social and cultural issues like abortion and gay rights, not economic interests, are driving political opinions today.

Fareed then talks with Walter Isaacson, the renowned journalist and biographer, who asks Fareed about the book. They delve into some of the revolutions past and present—in politics, economics, culture, and technology—that Fareed identifies as shaping our world today.

Finally: What's the secret to happiness? To find it, you might want to buy a plane ticket to Finland, which has yet again topped the list of world's happiest countries. Fareed examines what's making us happy and unhappy—and what we can learn from elsewhere in the world.

Could the US Military Be Politicized?

In a Foreign Affairs essay, Risa Brooks argues that it could. Some disturbing signs indicate the process is already underway, Brooks suggests, noting that some conservatives have criticized military leaders for pursuing allegedly "woke" agendas. "The Senate could push back on efforts to engineer (military) promotions on the basis of political loyalty," Brooks writes. "But if a partisan tug of war over officer promotions were to ensue, restraint on both sides could erode even further, since it would become risky to respect the military's nonpartisan ethic when the other party did not. In the future, both political parties might work to ensure that the military—especially its senior leadership—shares their partisan views."

Milei to the Danger Zone

Inaugurated in December, Argentine President Javier Milei—a libertarian economist with radical views on slashing government and remaking his country's long-struggling economy—has sought to enact an aggressive agenda.

Charting Milei's presidency in the current issue of The New York Review of Books, Ernesto Semán writes: "Milei began his assault on the Argentine state immediately upon taking office last December. Right before Christmas, he signed a 'megadecree,' or omnibus executive order, that deregulated significant parts of the economy. It reduced severance compensations and transferred workers from union-assigned health care to a voluntary system; lifted ceilings on rent, credit card interests, land tenure, and private health insurance plans; pushed the privatization of state-owned companies ('All government companies should close down,' Milei has explained); paved the way for unregulated international fishing, indiscriminate mining, and unsupervised tactical burning of forests."

Semán notes "fierce protests" in response and Milei's difficulties in getting Congress to go along with his program. Inflation dropped more than expected on a monthly basis in February, The Economist writes, but over the last year it was a stunningly high (by non-Argentine standards) 276%. After 100 days in office, the magazine writes, Milei "can boast of real economic successes." He expects to run a budget surplus this year, and monthly surpluses in January and February were the first in more than a decade.

Still, The Economist assesses that Milei's political "fate depends on two unknowns. How much economic pain can Argentines take before they turn on him? And can he garner the political support needed to make economic progress quickly enough to stop the whole thing falling apart?" The Financial Times editorial board, meanwhile, warns: "It is not in Argentina's interest for Milei's economic plans to fail: the alternative could be government paralysis and hyperinflation. Yet the president seems almost too comfortable with the idea of being a prophet in the wilderness."

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