In this episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss controversies over Christmas “classics.”
Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show:
· Beloved Christmas songs and movies, like so many cultural products, have come under new scrutiny recently. Neil’s Atlantic essay about Christmas controversies informed our whole conversation. We drew on this Atlantic essay that began the backlash against the film Love Actually, and Natalia referenced this interview with its director. Niki referred to this Variety essay about “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”
In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History:
· Natalia, Neil, and Niki reflected on eight years of making the show together and announced both Niki’s departure and Past Present’s first hiatus. Thank you, Niki. And listeners, see you in the spring!
Episode 227: Meatpacking Plants and the Defense of Production Act
Episode 226: The Lockdown Protests
Episode 225: Vote-by-Mail and USPS
Episode 224: Hydroxychloroquine
Episode 223: Tiger King
Episode 222: School Closings
Episode 221: Cabin Fever
Episode 220: Quarantines
Episode 219: Plastic Bag Bans
Episode 218: Fat Activism
Episode 217: COVID-19 and Protective Face Masks
Episode 216: A Proposal to "Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again"
Episode 215: The 2020 Iowa Caucuses
Episode 214: Moderate Republicans
Episode 213: Little Women
Episode 212: Jeopardy!
Episode 211: The Australian Bushfires
Episode 210: U.S. Embassy Attack in Baghdad
Episode 209: The "OK" Sign, Black Israelites, and CIA Disguises
Episode 208: Cockfighting, Athletic Doping, and Didone
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