Nostalgia Trap

Nov 07 2024 473 ep. 48 mins 3.3k

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Conversations about history, politics, and pop culture.

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Nostalgia Trap - Ep 398: In Levittown's Shadow w/ Tim Keogh

Nov 07 2024 70 mins

Tim Keogh is an Associate Professor of History at the Queensborough Community College in New York City. His book In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb turns a common American story on its head, giving us a picture of life at the economic bottom of the postwar suburban housing boom. This conversation features challenges to political orthodoxies o

Nostalgia Trap - Ep 397: Vincent Van Gogh to the Polls w/ Peter Sabatino

Oct 18 2024 85 mins

This week I’m joined by my good friend Peter Sabatino for a conversation all about Vincent Van Gogh’s personal and artistic legacy. We both read the book Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, a gigantic magisterial biography that affected us both in surprising ways. While Van Gogh embodies the archetypal image of the “tortured artist,” there’s so mu

News Trap 10.14.24 - Goodbye to Reality

Oct 14 2024 33 mins

Armed militias roam the hurricane ravaged wastelands of North Carolina, no one wants children and it's not because of the economy, Apple's Vision Pro is a massive failure, we're stepping off the ship of rational discourse and entering the wonderland of feelings as facts. Don't miss any of our News Trap updates, subscribe and ride the snake: patreon.com/nostalgiatrap

Nostalgia Trap - Ep 396: What Happened to the American Hitchhiker? w/ Jack Reid

Sep 27 2024 60 mins

Jack Reid is an American historian and the author of Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation (UNC Press, 2020). In this conversation, we talk about the specific culture, between the 1930s and 1970s, that produced hitchhiking as a common social experience, when ordinary Americans would travel with strangers they met on the road. What happened to hit

News Trap - Justin on Why Eating Dogs Matters (PREVIEW)

Sep 16 2024 3 mins

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 395: Atomic Twang w/ Joseph M. Thompson

Aug 30 2024 59 mins

Joseph M. Thompson is assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University, and the author of Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism (UNC Press, 2024). Thompson’s history tracks the deep connections between country music and the U.S. military, uncovering a concerted effort by government officials and cultura

Nostalgia Trap - Ep 394: Brother, Can You Spare a Gun? w/ Andrew C. McKevitt

Aug 21 2024 60 mins

Andrew C. McKevitt is John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University. His latest book, Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America, explores how guns came to occupy a curious place between “constitutional right” and “consumer good,” as the Cold War provided a cultural, political, and material framework by which guns could

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 393: That's Me in the Corner w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper

Jun 28 2024 80 mins

R.E.M. is one of the most influential rock bands in American music history, with a legendary arc that took them from college radio punks in the early 80s to critical darlings and arena rockers with multiple smash albums throughout the 90s. But what happened after that? This week Justin shares a thesis about the final phase of R.E.M.’s career, during which the band signed an $80 m

News Trap 6.14.24 w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper

Jun 14 2024 63 mins

Anti-immigration politics are winning the moment, the market for testosterone replacement therapy is booming, child labor is on the horizon, and United Health EATS PEOPLE. And so ends this week's FREE PREVIEW for News Trap. Subscribe to continue the News Trap journey and keep up with all new episodes next week and beyond: https://www.patreon.com/collection/520366?view=expanded

News Trap 6.12.24

Jun 12 2024 34 mins

A stunning new piece in The Atlantic offers details on the fall of America as seen from Phoenix, Arizona. Folks, 2024 is gonna be a hell of year. This is FREE PREVIEW WEEK for News Trap, subscribe to hear 'em all: https://www.patreon.com/collection/520366?view=expanded