Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis

Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis


Hal Brands: Allies, Autocrats, and AI

November 11, 2025

Today on Political Economy, I’m chatting with Hal Brands about America’s place in the changing global order. Under the Trump administration, the US has acted less as an “ordering power,” as Brands puts it, than it has over the past century. We talk about