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.
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The Trump Wannabees | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
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Delegitimize The Supreme Court | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
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Right-Wing Attacks on Small-Town Libraries; plus “The Snow Leopard” | Start Making Sense
Basketball Butterfly Effect | Edge of Sports
Stripping The Court of Its Power | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
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Erwin Chemerinsky on The Trump Indictment, plus Katha Pollitt on “Barbie” | Start Making Sense
How to Fix The Supreme Court’s Ethics Problem | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
The Secret Origins of Marvel | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Trump’s Trials, plus Barbie and Oppie | Start Making Sense
Finding the Balance | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
The Case For Abolishing Harvard | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
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Reform the Media | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
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