On the latest LGM podcast Brockington and I talk about Brexit in the wake of the final deal, the politics of higher education in the UK, and the future political landscape of Great Britain.

Scott, Rob, and I had our now traditional bi-monthly podcast conversation about the current issues in American politics. We talk a lot about COVID, a lot about the Georgia Senate election, a lot about the amorality of our legal elites, and a bit about Biden’s early appointees. Check it out!

For my latest podcast with authors of recent books, I had the great pleasure of talking to Cathleen Cahill, associate professor of history at Penn State, about her fantastic new book Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement. This book does a great job of not only highlighting women of color […]

In the latest LGM podcast, Lemieux, Farley, and I engage in a post-election postmortem, discussing such as issues as Trump’s attempted coup, what the heck happened with the House and the Senate, how the old shibboleth that “if we just get the people out to vote then we will win” is an obvious canard, and […]

Farley, Lemieux, and myself spent part of yesterday recording a pre-election rundown podcast. Includes predictions, discussion of the courts, and how to stay sane (to which I basically say, do not look to me for mental health advice).

In today’s podcast, I interview Andrew Sandoval-Strausz from Penn State University about his 2019 book Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City. This is an absolutely fascinating study about how the rise of immigrant transformed the city, largely ending the “urban crisis” of the 1960s-1980s. We talk about how the specific ways people […]

For the latest LGM podcast, I talked to Michael Hiltzik, the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Los Angeles Times, about his latest book Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America. In this conversation, we talk about the craziness of this railroad building mania, the personalities of these capitalists, the comparisons […]

For today’s podcast, I interviewed Kent Blansett, Langston Hughes Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and History at the University of Kansas, on his book Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement. It’s a great book on one of the most important justice leaders of the 1960s and 1970s, someone who has […]

Yesterday I moderated a discussion between Paul and Scott about the legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the politics of her replacement, and the future of the Supreme Court. If I may say so, I was far more effective in taming the debaters than Chris Wallace…

On the latest LGM podcast, Erik, Paul and me spoke with longtime friend of the blog Glenn Kenny about his superb new book Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas. I will have more about it in a follow-up post, but suffice it to say it’s the best book of its kind I’ve read since Julie […]