Political Junkie
Claire Potter, Eladio Bobadilla, Neil J. Young, Murph Kinney, Letters from Katha, Paul Starr, Julia Sonnevend, Zayd Ayers DohrnNews you can use about politics, culture, and media
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Who's Afraid of Graham Platner?
Image credit: Graham Platner for U.S. Senate
Back in the fall of 2020, when I wasn’t phone banking for Joe Biden, I was making calls into Maine on behalf of Sara Gideon from my pandemically locked-down home in Western Massachu...
Clap If You Believe in Fairies
We begin with a clip from an ad circulated by Lone Star PAC that asserts Democratic candidate for Senate James Talarico is “too weak and weird for Texas.”
Today’s theme music is “Lola” (2020 Stereo Remaster) by The Kinks; copyrighted music...
What Trump Really Meant? Make America White Again!
Thank you to everyone who tuned into this video live!
In this bonus episode, recorded yesterday as a Substack Live, Princeton sociologist Paul Starr and I discuss his new article in The American Prospect, “Stephen Miller’s Impossible Amer...
Consensual Sodomy
We would like to welcome new paid subscriber Peggy Rutledge!
Murph Kinney, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army Reserves (Ret.), is a professor of history at SUNY’s Suffolk Community College and is working on a memoir. We are pleased to kick off Pr...
We’re Not Dead Yet!
We begin with a clip from Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus’s 2013 press conference, where he presented the autopsy on Senator Mitt Romney’s failed presidential campaign.
Today’s theme is Luck Be a Lady written and perf...
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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
Assistant Professor of History at the @universityofky. @WeberStateU BIS. @DukeU PhD. Navy veteran. Real Salt Lake supporter.
writer, podcaster, dog lover.
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.
Politics, poetry, feminism, books, life. Most recent books are Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (Picador) and The Mind-Body Problem (poems, Seren Books). Woman. Life. Freedom.
Professor of sociology and public affairs, Princeton University
JULIA SONNEVEND is as professor of sociology and co-director of the Center for the American Experience at The New School. She is the author of Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics, named one of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024.
Writer of plays, films, podcasts. New book DANGEROUS, DIRTY, VIOLENT, AND YOUNG out May 19! https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324089315
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