Andrew & Ray check in about the Biden administration and discuss New Monetary Theory, the strategic objectives of the American military and how Andrew became a lefty. Kim Hjelmgaard's USA Today article "A Reckoning is Near" and Jed Purdy's "A Possible Majority" in Dissent Magazine. 

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EP43: Andrew & Ray, unadulterated

Keith Pluymers comes on the show to talk about environmental history, wood in the early modern world, and contemporary environmental politics.

EP42: Keith Pluymers

Nicole Hemmer sits down with Ray and Andrew to discuss a range of topics from conservative media and the NYT to public history and "Welcome to Your Fantasy," a podcast about the Chippendales!

EP41: Nicole Hemmer

Harvey joins Andrew and Ray to discuss the inaugural address as well as Biden's bipartisan hopes. 

EP40: Inauguration, with Harvey Kaye

Ray and Andrew return from a recording hiatus to have a conversation with the historian Harvey Kaye.

Ep Thirty-Nine: Harvey Kaye

Class reductionism or race reductionism? Listen in as Andrew and Ray speak with Touré Reed about his book Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism.

Ep Thirty-Eight: Reed on Race Reductionism

Derek Charles Catsam, professor of history and humanities at University of Texas-Permian Basin, joins Andrew and Ray for a conversation about race, class, and rugby in sports history. For this episode we read Catsam's essays for Africa is a Country. 

Ep Thirty-Seven: Derek Catsam on Rugby

Salik Farooqi comes on the show to discuss the pandemic from the perspective of political sociology. For this episode we read: An Organic Crisis is upon Us; On the Concept of History; Gooseberries; Pandemic’s Lesson: Global Capitalism is Uneven and Dangerously Particularistic; The Myth of Sisyphus; and the Wiki on total football. (Links on our website: http://wildorchids.libsyn.com)

Ep Thirty-Six: The Pandemic's Social and Psychic Context

Professor Gina Gustavsson from the Department of Government at Uppsala University speaks with Ray and Andrew about Sweden's response to covid19.  Listen in as we consider the meaning of nationalism during a pandemic.

Ep Thirty-Five: Sweden's Response to Covid19

Ray and Andrew discuss our covid19 moment. What are the political implications of this pandemic? How do we understand the CARES Act? And what does all this mean for the future of the left? Listen in as you continue to social distance. 

Ep Thirty-Four: Rona

Andrew and Ray discuss Super Tuesday and the future of Bernie's movement.

Ep Thirty-Three: Long Live Bernie Sanders!

Historian Max Felker-Kantor talks about his book Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance and the Rise of the LAPD (2018). Listen in as Andrew and Ray consider the rise of the carceral state and the role of police in our society.

Ep Thirty-Two: Policing Los Angeles

Really, Iowa? Andrew and Ray talk about the 2020 Iowa caucus debacle.

Ep Thirty-One: Of the Iowa Caucus

Kim Phillips-Fein comes on the show to discuss her book Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. Ray thinks he sounds particularly smart in this episode.

Ep Thirty: Fear City

Andrew and Ray talk Corbyn, Trump, Bernie, and our political moment. They also provide a short briefing on the annual U-USIH conference in New York.

Ep Twenty-Nine: Of Corbyn and Elections

Two intellectual historians discuss politics, culture, and the history of ideas in the United States.

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