Contact Us My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, routinely podcasting since 2006, is a podcast that uses history to better understand the politics of today. So many political events have foundations in history. or they resemble something that happened in the past. That history can help illuminate what’s going on, remove the shock of…
Month: February 2018
U.S.-Mexico Relations w/ Bob Crawford and Ben Sawyer of “The Road to Now” Podcast
The Mexican War, current U.S. politics, Mexican history are all topics Bruce joins Bob Crawford of the Avett Brothers and Dr. Benjamin Sawyer of Middle Tennessee State University, hosts of the Road to Now Podcast in Mexico where they discuss Mexico relations in front of a live audience. But first a little commentary about Benito…
Debunking “The Good Old Days” Argument w/ Gregg Easterbrook
Was the past better? Were the “Good Old Days” really all they are chalked up to be? Gregg Easterbrook, author of It’s Better Than it Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear, has a bold argument. Things are better now then they have ever been. That will surprise a lot of people who…
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