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Back to SearchNostalgia Trap - Episode 42: Corey Robin
Corey Robin, professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, shares his thoughts on the punishing 2016 presidential primary season. Trump, Sander…
10 years, 1 month ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 41: Eric Foner
Professor Eric Foner is a leading contemporary historian, whose work focuses on American political history, shifting notions of freedom and liberty, …
11 years ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 40: David Nasaw
David Nasaw is a historian and writer whose recent work has produced a series of magisterial biographies of some of the most towering figures in Amer…
11 years ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 39: Justin Rogers-Cooper
Justin Rogers-Cooper is a professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, as well as one of the best friends I made while studying at the CUNY G…
11 years, 1 month ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 38: Frederik Logevall
Frederik Logevall is a professor of history and one of the foremost American scholars of the Vietnam War. His most recent book, Embers of War: The Fa…
11 years, 2 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 37: Liza Featherstone
Liza Featherstone is a journalist and professor whose book Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart covered one of th…
11 years, 2 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 36: Owen Powell
Owen Powell is a retired military police sergeant, former Marine, and Iraq combat veteran whose experiences in war have been chronicled in the New Yo…
11 years, 2 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 35: Minerva Ahumada
Minerva Ahumada is a professor of philosophy at LaGuardia Community College. In this episode, we talk about her youth in Mexico, her unexpected move …
11 years, 3 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 34: Doug Henwood
Doug Henwood's recent Harper's cover story about Hillary Clinton (the title: "Stop Hillary!") has ruffled the feathers of the Democratic Party es…
11 years, 3 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 33: Moustafa Bayoumi
Moustafa Bayoumi is an associate professor of English at Brooklyn College and the author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in…
11 years, 4 months ago