We talk C Derick Varn co-host of Pop the Left podcast of Zero Books and the Mortal Science podcast of Emancipation Network. We discuss Latin American politics dealing from topic like the Pink Wave, Trotskyism, US-Latin American relations as well as the place for ethnic and cultural conflictcs play into the political conflicts in the region. We pay attention particularly to political economy of the Andean region and that the Inquisition and Crypto-Judaism played an important role in Colonial Latin America and also how some of it's legacies still influence the region today.

My conversation with writer Lucy Steigerwald. We talk about aliens, conspiracies and christmas.

Conversation with Frank Miroslav. We talk about global protests, far right populism, the resurgence of the radical left and the current debates about China.

My conversation with Akiva Malamet. We talk about the dangers of different tendencies of nationalism.

Conversation with Andrés Pertierra a graduate student at the Department of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison about the United States-Cuba relationship and the recent political developments in Cuba.

Conversation with Joshua Tait currently a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of North Caroline at Chappell Hill. We talk about the past and present of American conservatism particularly about the relationship of conservatives and free market plus how Trump is changing the conservative movement in regard to the growing nationalist tendencies in the American Right.

We talk to Conor Duffy, scientist by day and twitter politics person by night about the 2020 presidential election particularly the Democratic primaries. How issues like immigration, foreign policy and economics are defining this race.

Conversation with Eric Hoover a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education. We talk about the controversy over Nepalese students admitted to the University of Texas at Tyler who after receiving a full scholarship this was cancelled which make Eric to travel to Katmandu the capital of Nepal to understand the interest of Nepalese students in studying in the US. In the context of controversies surrounding the admission process in several universities we also deal with challenges that Nepalese students and in general Third World students to get admitted in American college.

Conversation with historian Daniel Bessner who is an Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual. We talk about the decline in history majors, the lack of tenure track positions in History deparments and ways to change this.

My conversation with Oscar Winberg who is a PhD Candidate at the History Department of Åbo Akademi University in Finland working on modern American political history and mass media. We talk about studying American history from a Nordic country, the place of Nordic countries in the American imagination, the use of mass media to study politics and recent developments in the historiography of American conservatism.