#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#1393 Opportunists, Enablers and Seditionists, the Rot at the Heart of the GOP
Air Date: 1–19-2021
Today we take a look at the historical roots and modern manifestations of how white supremacy has turned the GOP base into Frankenstein's monster which cannot be controlled and has finally turned on its creator.
Read more#1392 The Coup Klux Klan and the January 6 Insurrection
Air Date: 1–16-2021
Today we take a look at the underlying fears and motivations for the insurrection that go beyond the Big Lie™ of a stolen election to the bedrock of white supremacy that has driven white riots for more than 100 years.
Read more#1390 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Our Second Founding (Reconstruction)
Air Date: 1–5-2021
Today we take a look at the often-overlooked decade of Reconstruction in the wake of the Civil War. After hundreds of years of slavery, Reconstruction was a brief moment of relative democracy and equality before the white power structure reasserted itself and instated the policies that would be known as "Jim Crow Laws" which would last another 80 years.
Read more#1320 The Rise and Inevitable Fall of Neoliberalism (Repost)
Air Date: 11–20-2019
Today we take a look at how Neoliberalism was born, how it was maintained and why it is on the verge of collapse.
Read more#1387 Hyper-Partisanship is Baked Into the System, Not a Result of Bad Actors
Air Date: 12–15-2020
Today we take a look at the current state of hyper-partisanship and its origins. The system seems broken because it is broken and it was never designed to work this way in the first place. And what about that bygone era of bipartisanship? It's likely that was a fluke and the result of one-party dominance in the New Deal era, it is not the norm throughout history.
Read more#1385 The Lost Causes of the Confederacy and the Forty Fives
Air Date: 12–9-2020
Today we take a look in real-time at the construction of the world's newest Lost Cause narrative, the failed re-election of Donald Trump. This is not our country's first experience with Lost Causes and it's not, contrary to popular opinion, even our second connection to a Lost Cause narrative because we didn't invent the first one, we borrowed it from somewhere else and I will tell that story today.
Read more#1384 Beyond Trump. Radical Authoritarianism in America.
Air Date: 12–5-2020
Today we take a look at what's behind Trump and his autocratic instincts. The enablers, the supporters and the long lineage of authoritarianism.
Read more#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America
Air Date: 11–10-2020
Today we take a look at the long and shifting history of the myth of democracy in America. We've never had it since the beginning but the reasons have shifted, ebbed and flowed over time. Now, in the midst of an attempted slow-motion coup, we look back at this most central American myth.
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