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Back to SearchS4 E5: Feminism in Black and White
Season 4 Episode 5
People fighting for more democracy in the United States often have to struggle against sexism and racism. In fact, those two struggles are often inse…
5 years, 10 months ago
S4 E4: The Second Revolution
Season 4 Episode 4
After the Civil War, a surprising coalition tried to remake the United States into a real multiracial democracy for the first time. Reconstruction, a…
5 years, 10 months ago
S4 E3: The Cotton Empire
Season 4 Episode 3
In the decades after America’s founding and the establishment of the Constitution, did the nation get better, more just, more democratic? Or did it d…
5 years, 11 months ago
S4 E2: "The Excess of Democracy"
Season 4 Episode 2
In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men got together in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the United States, replacing the new nation’s orig…
5 years, 11 months ago
S4 E1: Rich Man's Revolt
Season 4 Episode 1
In the American Revolution, the men who revolted were among the wealthiest and most comfortable people in the colonies. What kind of revolution was i…
6 years ago
Season 4 Trailer: The Land That Never Has Been Yet
Season 4
Our season-long series will touch on concerns like authoritarianism, voter suppression and gerrymandering, foreign intervention, and the role of mone…
6 years ago
S3 E12: The End of Male Supremacy?
Season 3 Episode 12
In our Season Three finale, co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen talk about where American culture goes from here, sexism-wise. And we hear from …
7 years, 1 month ago
Domination
Season 3 Episode 11
Host John Biewen dips into the world of sports talk radio, where guys talk not just about sports but also about how to be a man in twenty-first-centu…
7 years, 1 month ago
S3 E10: The Juggernaut
Season 3 Episode 10
Writer Ben James and his wife Oona are raising their sons in a progressive and “queer-friendly” New England town. They actively encourage the boys to…
7 years, 2 months ago
S3 E9: Be Like You
Season 3 Episode 9
Lewis Wallace, female-assigned at birth, wanted to transition in the direction of maleness—in some ways. He shifted his pronouns, had surgery, starti…
7 years, 2 months ago