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Episode 2547: Paul Elie on Art, Faith and Sex in the 1980s
How religious was the 80s creative scene? Very. At least according to Paul Elie, whose intriguing new cultural history, The Last Supper, charts the a…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 2546: Zaakir Tameez on the most unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
Who is the most unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction? According to Zaakir Tameez, it’s the abolitionist statesmen Charles Sumner.…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 2545: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling on the Death of Trust in Science
It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic. According to the Pulitzer finalist Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, the majority of Americans no longer trust stan…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 2544: Marcus Alexander Gadson on the History of Sedition in the United States
According to the legal scholar Marcus Alexander Gadson, violence is central to the constitutional history of the United States. As American, in fact,…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 2543: Edward Luce on the Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski
Who was America’s great power prophet during the Cold War? Perhaps not Henry Kissinger. In Zbig, Financial Times’ U.S. editor, Edward Luce, makes t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 2542: John Cassidy on Capitalism and its Critics
Yesterday, the self-styled San Francisco “progressive” Joan Williams was on the show arguing that Democrats need to relearn the language of the Ameri…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 2541: Joan Williams on How the Democrats Must Win Back the American Working Class
Why are the Democrats losing the American working class? According to Joan Williams, it’s because they are failing to prioritize economic concerns of…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 2540: Anna Malaika Tubbs Reveals the Secret History of American Patriarchy
In Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us, best selling writer Anna Malaika Tubbs reveals the secret history of American patriarchal val…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 2539: Marshall Poe on why Gaza is becoming Israel's Vietnam
History, Marshall Poe wrote in December 2023, shows that Israel will never win a “war of occupation”. Eighteen months later, with Israel on the brink…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 2538: Biden, Harris & the Exhausted Democratic Establishment
So why did Harris lose in 2024? For one very big reason, according to the progressive essayist Bill Deresiewicz: “because she represented the exhaust…
1 year, 4 months ago