On this episode of American Prestige, Danny and Derek again chat with Penny Von Eschen, William R. Kennan Jr. professor of American studies and professor of history at UVA, about her book Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989. This second part of the conversation picks up with Cold War nostalgia in American pop culture, the 90s search for a new “bad guy” in places like DPRK/North Korea and the Balkans, the “kitschification” of the Cold War, ways this nostalgia manifested throughout the War on Terror, how U.S.-Russia relations were reshaped in the 1990s and 2000s, and the influences of this refracted view of the Cold War on the “New Cold War” dynamic we’re seeing today.
Sarah Posner on the Conservative Takeover of the Southern Baptists, plus Amy Wilentz on Jared
Amy Littlefield on How Abortion Rights Triumphed in Kansas, plus Barbara Ehrenreich Remembered
Chris Lehmann on GOP Plans for 2023, Patrick Leahy on Jan. 6
The Mar-a-Lago Raid and the Democrats, plus ‘Dirty Work’ John Nichols on Trump, and Eyal Press on bad jobs
Abortion Rights Victories in Red States, plus the Crisis in Haiti
Liz Cheney in the Wyoming Primaries and White Supremacy in Southern California
Pramila Jayapal, from Banker to Organizer, plus Eric Foner on the Right to Vote
Katha Pollitt on Advice for Men and J. Hoberman on Film in the Age of Reagan
Daniel Squadron on How Trump’s Fake Electors Scheme Could Become Law, plus Amy Wilentz on Ivana
John Nichols on the 'Stop the Steal' rally, plus Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua on Climate Change
David Cole on What To Do About the Supreme Court, and Sarah Posner on School Prayer
Michele Goodwin on the end of abortion and Anatol Lieven on Ukraine
Sarah Posner on White Evangelicals and the Jan. 6 Insurrection, plus Joan Walsh on Sex Ed
John Nichols on January 6 and Peter Dreier on Progressive Prosecutors
John Nichols on Crime and the Democrats, plus Sarah Posner on Sex and the Southern Baptists
Katha Pollitt on How to Protect Abortion Rights and Kelly Lytle Hernandez on “Bad Mexicans”
John Nichols on Politics in 2024; Amy Wilentz on Reparations for Haiti
John Nichols on Progressives in the Primaries, plus Lynn Garafola on 'La Nijinska'
Amy Littlefield on the fight for Abortion Rights, plus Chesa Boudin on Progressive Prosecutors
Rebecca Solnit on How People Change and Why We Care; plus Eric Foner on 1776 and 2022
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