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Civil Rights and the Fragmenting of the New Deal (part 2)
By the mid to late 1960s the Republican Party had found a series of wedge issues that combined to break three decades of Democrat power by 1968. Rich…
1 year, 3 months ago
Anarchism: A beginners guide Part One
It's my mission in 2025 to unpack ideologies and navigate their complex fluid nature, contradictions, theorists and explanations of the world. In Jan…
1 year, 3 months ago
Catastrophic Technologies and Cold War Fears
During the Cold War a range of liberal and left intellectuals looked at the new technologies born of the Second World War and its aftermath with moun…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jean Marie Le Pen and the evolution of French Fascism
The most significant European fascist since Franco, Jean Marie Le Pen, died this week aged 96. This podcast explores the context of the rise of Le Fr…
1 year, 4 months ago
Gorbachev in New York 1988
In 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev visited the USA on a state visit and experienced celebrity treatment in Times Square in New York as he came to visit the ne…
1 year, 4 months ago
The construction of historical memory
Continuing our Approaches to history series, here are some thoughts on the construction of historical memory.
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1 year, 4 months ago
War Reporting from Stalingrad
In late 1942 the battle for Stalingrad consumed Nazi Germany's sixth army and both German and Soviet war correspondents attempted to give a picture o…
1 year, 4 months ago
America and the reconstruction of global capitalism
At the end of the Second World War, European capitalism had been comprehensively devastated by the conflict and America seized an opportunity to rebu…
1 year, 4 months ago
Trump's oligarchy: A historical perspective
Donald Trump is about to introduce the largest concentration of billionaires in history into his cabinet, but this is simply the continuation of a lo…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Battle of Stalingrad Part Three
The Battle of Stalingrad was the greatest German defeat of the war, consuming the entire German 6th Army and dealing a catastrophic blow to German mo…
1 year, 4 months ago