Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.
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Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.
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Has the Supreme Court Always Been This Terrible? with Mackenzie Joy Brennan
What is “originalism,” and what does it have to do with all these bribes? Mackenzie Joy Brennan has some answers.
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Episode • 22 July 2024 • 1h, 2m and 34s
Balloonfest ‘86! with Harmony Colangelo
The city of Cleveland will not be made to apologize for its balloons. Harmony Colangelo defends the mistake on the lake.
You can find Harmony on This Ends at Prom.
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Episode • 11 July 2024 • 1h, 1m and 7s
Phones Are Good, Actually with Taylor Lorenz
This week, Taylor Lorenz fights our latest moral panic. Are phones really making kids anxious, or are kids just good at noticing what's going on?
Listen to Taylor's podcast, Power User
Read Taylor in the Washington Post
...and her book, Extremely Online
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Sarah's other show, You Are Good
Links:
https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/power-user-with-taylor-lorenz
https://www.was...
Episode • 25 June 2024 • 59m and 11s
Immigration with Alejandra Oliva
Alejandra Oliva, author of Rivermouth, came by to catch us up on the last few decades of American immigration policy--and to talk about how the world as we know it is not the world as it must be.
Alejandra's website:
olivalejandra.com
Read Rivermouth, out now in paperback:
https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781662602672
Further Reading:
Greg Grandin The End of the Myth (2020)
Jonathan Blitzer Everyone Who is Gone is Here (2024)
David Bacon The Right to Stay Home (2014)
Dara Lind, "The di...
Episode • 12 June 2024 • 1h, 12m and 52s
The Tradwife Rises with Sarah Archer
Sarah Archer came by to make an episode from scratch. What's the real history of the American housewife? Where did the tradwife come from, and why? Is she okay? Will we be okay? And who is she churning all that butter for?
Sarah Archer's accompanying Substack post https://open.substack.com/pub/saraharcher/p/going-to-business
Sarah Archer's bibliography
Clips:
Mrs. Modern versus Mrs. Drudge from The Middleton Family at the 1939 New York World's Fair (produced by Westinghouse) https://youtu.be/vH2Lpl-UB64?si=vtVFAWhAvkDq-EOE
Design for Dreaming f...
Episode • 29 May 2024 • 1h, 2m and 26s
Rosa Parks with Princess Weekes
Today, Princess Weekes takes us to meet the real Rosa Parks.
Find Princess on YouTube:
Princess’ video, “The 1920s Sex Scandal You’ve Never Heard of”
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Sarah's other show: You Are Good
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Links:
https://youtube.com/@princess_weekes?si=qPVPnRDuJyfySdEX
https://youtu.be/odq8iebaqDw?si=lQMoWCWvdWPWP-7A
https://www.teepubli...
Episode • 15 May 2024 • 1h, 5m and 14s
George Michael Part 2 with Marcus McCann
Let's go outside in the sunshine.
An extended cut of this episode is available for Patreon and Apple Plus subscribers.
You can buy Marcus McCann's book, Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path, here.
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https://www.te...
Episode • 1 May 2024 • 1h, 33m and 42s
George Michael Part 1 with Marcus McCann
He turned a bright spark into a flame.
(Part 1 of 2!)
You can buy Marcus McCann's book, Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path, here.
Content warning: this episode briefly discusses suicide around minute 13.
An extended cut of this episode is available for Patreon and Apple Podcast subscribers.
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Episode • 17 April 2024 • 1h, 15m and 22s
Hoax Spectacular! with Chelsey Weber-Smith
Sarah talks with Chelsey Weber-Smith, host of American Hysteria, about some of their favorite hoaxes—from the Loch Ness Monster to the Taco Liberty Bell—and ponder the value of pranks in a world of misinformation.
You can find Chelsey here.
You can find American Hysteria here.
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Episode • 1 April 2024 • 1h, 3m and 48s
BONUS Britney Spears Book Club with Eve Lindley
Celebrity correspondent Eve Lindley came by to tell us about Britney Spears' memoir The Woman in Me. This is part one of a four-part saga we're currently releasing on Patreon and Apple Plus, and in this episode we get into Britney's family history, her childhood, her years of searching for stardom, and her life until the eve of "...Baby One More Time."
*A content warning—in this episode we talk about mental health struggles, and a part of the story around minute 22 involves suicide.
Eve Lindley on Instagram.
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Episode • 26 March 2024 • 56m and 58s
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