#1436 The Long Legacy of Making Deals with the Devil (Bipartisanship) (Repost)
Original Air Date: 8–21-2021
Today we take a look at the history of bipartisanship and appeasement in the US dating back to before the Civil War and tracking it all the way up to the current negotiations over the infrastructure bill.
Read more#1399 Myths are written by the victors, history by the scholars (1619 vs 1776) (Repost)
Original Air Date: 2–16-2021
Today we take a look at the competing histories fighting for dominance in the minds of Americans; the mythologized and romanticized history as represented by the "patriotic" framing of history from the 1776 Commission report and the much more fact-based approach that doesn't skirt the issue of race from the 1619 Project.
Read more#1462 There Will Be No Reichstag Fire
Air Date: 12–18-2021
Today we take a look at the roadmap to authoritarianism we are currently following including the detailed and multifaceted roadmap to a coup that was practiced leading up to January 6, 2021 and is being refined in preparation for the 2024 election.
Read more#1436 The Long Legacy of Making Deals with the Devil (Bipartisanship)
Air Date: 8–21-2021
Today we take a look at the history of bipartisanship and appeasement in the US dating back to before the Civil War and tracking it all the way up to the current negotiations over the infrastructure bill.
Read more#1399 Myths are written by the victors, history by the scholars (1619 vs 1776)
Air Date: 2–16-2021
Today we take a look at the competing histories fighting for dominance in the minds of Americans; the mythologized and romanticized history as represented by the "patriotic" framing of history from the 1776 Commission report and the much more fact-based approach that doesn't skirt the issue of race from the 1619 Project.
Read more#1096 The oligarch who decided to buy the White House (Corruption)
#1085 A case against the myth of individualism (Culture)
#964 History of the Christian Right (Religion)
Air date: 10-30-15
Today we take a look at the history of how Christianity was, in large part, coopted by the Republican party on behalf of business interests and how anyone started getting the idea that we were founded as a religious, much less Christian, nation
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