Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchQAnon and Conspiracy Theories in American Politics
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis joins the podcast to talk about conspiratorial thinking in American politics, from George Washington to…
5 years, 1 month ago
Trump, Twitter, and free speech in the 21st century
To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, you are either for free speech or you are not. Few issues in American culture today stoke such controversy as free expres…
5 years, 1 month ago
Putin's Staying Power
The popular unrest following the arrest of opposition politician Alexei Navalny provoked a heavy-handed police crackdown in Russia, where more than 1…
5 years, 2 months ago
Understanding Socialism
Few words in the American political lexicon are as freighted with fear as socialism. It can conjure thoughts of diabolical Communism, the horrors of …
5 years, 2 months ago
Impeachment, Nixon to Trump
The historian who drafted an open letter, signed by more than 1,000 scholars, calling for Donald Trump's impeachment explains why experts on the past…
5 years, 2 months ago
The GameStop Revolution
A decade after the Occupy Wall Street protesters called out the reckless greed that brought down the economy, a different kind of anti-Wall Street, p…
5 years, 2 months ago
Recovering the Radical King
King sharply criticized capitalism. He condemned the Vietnam War, referring to the U.S. government "as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world…
5 years, 2 months ago
The First 1,000 Days
The fate of President Biden's ambitious legislative agenda will depend on whether Congress embraces his FDR-like call for bold government action to d…
5 years, 2 months ago
Trumpism After Trump
Donald Trump is out of power but it seems certain Americans will continue to talk and think about him, at least in the short term. How long what is a…
5 years, 2 months ago
Inauguration
The peaceful transition of power is a pillar of American democracy. But 2021 begins with a fear of violence hanging over Washington as Joseph Biden p…
5 years, 2 months ago