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.
Finding the Balance | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
The Case For Abolishing Harvard | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
What Happened to Black Activism in Professional Sports? | Edge of Sports
The Class Struggle This Summer | Start Making Sense
Reform the Media | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
Young Americans for Freedom Hates Freedom | Time of Monsters
150 Years of Black Activism In Sports | Edge of Sports
The War on Black Studies, plus Hollywood on Strike | Start Making Sense
You're Wrong About Term Limits | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
Start Making Sense: Cornel West Should Run as a Democrat, plus Supreme Court Wins and Losses
Edge of Sports: Solomon Hughes on playing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 'Winning Time’
Time of Monsters: Moms For Liberty and Its Media Apologists
Elie Mystal's Court Packing Plan | Contempt of Court
Edge of Sports: 1968 Olympian Dr. John Carlos on the Legacy of the Black Athletic Revolt
Start Making Sense: Summer of Strikes, plus After Affirmative Action: Jane McAlevy on Labor, John Nichols on Education
Time of Monsters: Moira Donegan on the Reactionary Vision of the Supreme Court
Packing the Court! | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
Start Making Sense: The Battle on the Abortion Borderland, plus RFK Jr.
Edge of Sports: Aaron Maybin: "Athletes aren't superheroes, we're human beings"
Time of Monsters: The State of the Left in Chile, El Salvador and Nicaragua
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