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From Powell Memo to Policy Powerhouse: How Right-Wing Think Tanks Hijacked America’s Future since 1973
How did neoliberalism go from fringe idea to ruling ideology in the United States? In this deep-dive episode of Explaining History, we trace the hidd…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Britain's Austerity Trap
Britain’s Austerity Trap
Why is one of the world’s richest countries still behaving like it’s broke?
In this episode of Explaining History, we dive int…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
A Gaza coalition emerging
The extent to which western soft power and legal and moral authority has been shredded by Gaza is lost upon British, American and European population…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Moral justifications for modern war
Warfare had to be re-propagandised in the 20th Century, particularly in the western world, as a moral crusade. Mass democracy determined that leaders…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Maoist struggle sessions and the Cultural Revolution
This episode draws from the excellent book Red Memory by Tania Brannigan, an oral history of the Cultural Revolution. Here we examine the role of tho…
10 months ago
Violeta Parra: Chile’s Folk Revolutionary, Cold-War Exile & Mother of Nueva Canción
***PLEASE LISTEN TO THE END***
Chilean folk icon Violeta Parra (1917-1967) was far more than the singer of “Gracias a la Vida.” In this episode, Eric…
10 months ago
Post war lesbian life in Britain
Join us on The Explaining History Podcast as we welcome Dame Vikki Heywood, former Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal …
10 months ago
Edwardian Britain's most famous fraudster
Join us on The Explaining History Podcast as we sit down with historian and author Mark Bridgeman to unravel the extraordinary life—and daring decept…
10 months ago
Oligarchy in America and Russia
At the end of the 20th Century, the Cold War which had defined the struggle between various different iterations of capitalism in the western world a…
10 months ago
Trump's ICE brownshirts, an historical analysis
Nazism sought to bypass legal norms where it couldn't just sweep them aside. The German Weimar constitution took time to dismantle and new institutio…
10 months ago