Political Junkie
Claire Potter, Neil J. Young, Julian Zelizer, Murph Kinney, Paul StarrNews you can use about politics, culture, and media
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Who Owns History?
Our opening segment is from “Drawing on the Archive: Tillie Walden’s Charity & Sylvia,” a short video featuring cartoonist Tillie Walden explaining the experience of creating a graphic novel from the Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant archive...
What is Happening Inside Higher Education?
This morning I had a chance to chat with Princeton history professor Julian Eliezer about the issues Tyler Austin Harper raised about race on the faculties of small liberal arts colleges
Thank you LeftieProf, Suzie’s World, Cathy Yungmann,...
In Dolly We Trust
I posted this as a podcast so that I could re-up an interview I did last year with Martha Ackman, Dolly Parton’s biographer. You can read the show notes here, and purchase Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton (St. Martin’...
Trump’s Most Special Assistant
Special assistant Natalie Harp (left) peers out of the window of Air Force One as she and her boss travel to the U.S. Open for the men’s final on September 7, 2025. Photo credit: The White House/Wikimedia Commons
You would hav...
Don't Let the Door Hitch'a On The Way Out
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt steps back to spend more time with her family (and less time with Donald Trump)
Karoline Leavitt runs her first press conference on January 28, 2025. Image credit: The White House
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Historian | Author of "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020) | The New York Times, The New Republic, Yale Review, DAME
writer, podcaster, dog lover.
Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of The Long View newsletter on Substack. Zelizer, the author and editor of 28 books, is also a columnist for Foreign Policy.
Murph Kinney is a historian of nationalism and liturgy, a retired Army officer, and a first-time memoirist, writing The Chaplain's Daughter — a memoir about growing up on Cold War Air Force bases, building a faith entirely her own.
Professor of sociology and public affairs, Princeton University
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