Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNicole Gelinas: Blue City Lessons from NYC’s 100 Years' War Between Cars and Transit
Season 1 Episode 23
New York Times contributing opinion writer Nicole Gelinas, who writes regularly on New York City issues, is the author of a deeply researched and inf…
8 months ago
Dispatch from an Urban Drug Market
Season 1 Episode 22
In this special episode we venture outside our respective basements to explore a sprawling open-air drug market in Seattle’s Little Saigon neighborho…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
What’s the Matter with Chicago?
Season 1 Episode 21
The Windy City is not just a great American metropolis – the third largest in the United States – it is a world class city, recognized globally as a …
9 months ago
Trump Just Defunded Public Media. Did NPR Help Bring This Disaster on Itself?
Season 1 Episode 20
In the latest installment of Blue City Blues, we welcomed Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of the history of education at the University of Pennsylvania…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on What Urbanites Get Wrong about Rural America
Season 1 Episode 19
The political gulf between educated urban progressives and rural and blue collar Americans has accelerated in recent decades. The consequences for bl…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Celinda Lake on What NYC’s Political Earthquake Means for the Politics of Blue Cities
Season 1 Episode 18
Zohran Mamdani's upset victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary wasn't just a win; it was a seismic event that's shaking the foundatio…
10 months ago
Sherman Alexie: A Res Indian Take on Monsters, Colonizers and the Urban Left's “Minor League Maoism”
Season 1 Episode 17
In this episode of Blue City Blues, we invited writer Sherman Alexie on to weigh in on recent cultural trends in blue cities.
Alexie has long been r…
10 months, 1 week ago
Katie Herzog on What the Decline and Fall of Twitter Means for Blue Cities
Season 1 Episode 16
In 2020, when the power of social media – Twitter, in particular – to police the boundaries of acceptable thought in blue cities was at its cultural …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Is Abundance the Answer to What Ails Blue Cities?
Season 1 Episode 15
In January of 2022, The Atlantic published staff writer Derek Thompson’s manifesto calling for a fundamental reform of progressive governance. “We ne…
11 months, 1 week ago
Defund/Abolition Is Dead in Blue Cities. What now?
Season 1 Episode 15
Public safety policy reformer Lisa Daugaard won a MacArthur Genius Award in 2019 for her work creating the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) …
11 months, 3 weeks ago