If You’re Listening host Matt Bevan returns to the Australia Institute's After America podcast to discuss the midterms, the 2024 presidential election & January 6th.
Thu 30 Jul 2026 15.19 AEST
If You’re Listening host Matt Bevan returns to the Australia Institute’s After America podcast to discuss the midterms, the 2024 presidential election & January 6th.
As America’s international behaviour since 9/11 so clearly demonstrates, the damage of 9/11 is burned deeply into the American psyche. America is perpetually hyper-vigilant, and perpetually defensive. It constantly reaches for military solutions to complex problems where diplomacy and some self-reflection might offer better outcomes.
Sovereignty should be on the minds of most Australians, but it’s not – mostly because politicians don’t want it there. But it matters more than politicians would like us to think about. It was on my mind recently, because it’s popped up across a few issues and our answer as a nation has been different each time. That’s not how sovereignty is supposed to work, and yet, for political expediency, it does.
