In the last episode, we discussed the aspirations and limitations of the 19th-century Black freedom movement; this week, Black and white Progressives imagine a twentieth century without racism. My guest is Victoria W. Wolcott, professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo and author of Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long … More Why Now? Episode 3: Black and White Together
A conversation with historian Kerri Greenidge about her new book, “The Grimkés: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family” In Episode 2 of “Why Now?” Kerri Greenidge talks to us about her new book, The Grimkés: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family (Liveright, 2022.) The Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, … More Why Now? Episode 2: The First Family of Abolition
A conversation with sociologist Daniel Laurison about his new book, “Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us” In this debut episode of “Why Now?” I interview Daniel Laurison, Associate Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College, who studies the connections between economic inequality, racial inequality, and … More Why Now? Episode 1: Pulling Back the Curtain on Political Campaigns
This is content for paid subscribers only at my Substack, Political Junkie, but I wanted to share it with those of you who followthis blog. If you like what you see, subscribe now! Today, House Republicans face a crucial turning point: will they take the threat that conspiracist and accused anti-Semite Marjorie Taylor Greene poses to … More The GOP Is a Dumpster Fire
Slightly less than a year ago, my Substack, Political Junkie launched with a post about the Democratic presidential primary campaign. That post described the experience of politics from a campaign volunteer’s perspective. It was written in the first person plural because this newsletter was one of the ways that the editorial board of Public Seminar, a weekly digital magazine … More Here’s the Deal, Folks: A New Year’s Announcement
And among other things, this is what they said: Potter’s brisk and well-informed account suggests that alternative media, by refocusing on truth-seeking and informed debate, can help solve many of the threats to American democracy that it has produced. Newshounds on both the right and the left will be encouraged. Needless to say, I am … More Publisher’s Weekly read my book…
Joe and Pete, I am looking at you. If Biden were a woman, even a woman with a stellar record (which Biden’s is not), he would already be gone given how garbled everything comes out. Pete’s style isn’t garbled, but he says absolutely nothing: Moderator: “What do you think about (this issue)?” Pete: “That … More On men who would no longer be Democratic candidates if they were women
…were already coalescing as the ball dropped in Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2008.” Sorry to end the year on a spirit of impending doom, but there you go: I tell it like it is, baby. I was one of the 23 historians in a Politico roundup (December 27 2019) imagining how the 2010s … More “The partisanship, and the populisms, that came to characterize the 2010s…
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