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Back to SearchNostalgia Trap - Episode 90: AM/FM - The Political Economy of Mass Shootings
In this episode, Justin Rogers-Cooper joins me to unpack the mass shooting phenomenon in the wider context of American history. Why do Americans kill…
8 years ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 89: Erin Bartram
Erin Bartram's blog piece, "The Sublimated Grief of the Left Behind," explores an uncomfortable topic among graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s: giv…
8 years ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 88: Jeremy Young
Jeremy C. Young is a professor of history at Dixie State University, and the author of Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American…
8 years, 1 month ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 87: Eero Laine
Eero Laine is a professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo whose work often focuses on the world of professional wrestling. He joins me to tal…
8 years, 1 month ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 86: AM/FM - Punk in the 90s
David Fouser was definitely way more into punk, as both an ethos and music genre, than I recall ever being. But now that he's all grown up, like many…
8 years, 2 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 85: Daniel Bessner
Daniel Bessner is a professor and writer whose work explores 20th century American cultural and intellectual history. In this conversation, we talk a…
8 years, 2 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 84: Yekaterina Oziashvili
Yekaterina Oziashvili, a professor of political science at Sarah Lawrence College, joins me to talk about her upbringing in Georgia during the final …
8 years, 2 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 83: AM/FM - The Deep State is Capitalism
What is the "deep state"? Does it really exist, or is it a specter in the minds of far-right conspiracy theorists from Jack D. Ripper to Alex Jones? …
8 years, 2 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 82: Michael Brenes
Michael Brenes is a historian and Senior Archivist for American Diplomacy at Yale. When I first met him years ago, we were both working on degrees in…
8 years, 3 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 81: Yasmin Nair
Yasmin Nair is a writer and activist based in Chicago, known as much for her dynamic political and cultural writing as for her contentious social med…
8 years, 4 months ago