Blame Today On the 70s (with Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer)

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Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Guests: Kevin Kruse is a Professor of History at Princeton University. Julian Zelizer is a Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. *Interview taped on 1/21/19. On this episode of Stay Tuned, Kevin and Julian discuss: Their new book Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 that traces the history of today’s economic, political and social divisions The legacy of civil rights movements and Martin Luther King, Jr. The role of Twitter historians and their obligation to speak up and correct misinformation References made in the episode: Historian Michael Beschloss’ interview on Stay Tuned Kruse and Zelizer’s Washington Post op-ed on The Fairness Doctrine The short-lived Air America liberal radio broadcast A 2000 poll asking people if they were in the top 1%; read David Brooks analysis of the results Zelizer’s op-ed on Pence’s invocation of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have A Dream speech Kevin Kruse’s twitter account Kevin’s debut Twitter thread on Southern Democrats Enes Kanter’s Stay Tuned video Do you have a question for Preet? Tweet it to @PreetBharara with the hashtag #askpreet, email [email protected], or call 669-247-7338 and leave a voicemail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.9	From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tuned. I'm Pete Barara.
1:00.9	You know, we've got a duty out there. As much as a doctor has a duty, I think, to push back
1:06.4	against the anti-vaccine nonsense or scientists to push back against the climate change
1:10.7	in NILIS, historians have a special level of expertise. And if we don't speak up against
1:15.6	this stuff, no one else will. And worse, if we don't speak up, it'll often be assumed
1:19.7	that, well, it must be okay, no historian has debunked this. That's Kevin Cruz. With
1:26.9	my other guest, Julian Zellerser, he's the author of Fault Lines, a history of the United
1:32.2	States since 1974. I speak with them about the roots of the divisions we're living through
1:37.0	today and how we can move past the legacy of the 70s. And that time, Kevin dunked on
1:42.5	Dinesh D'Souza. That's coming up. Stay tuned.
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2:24.8	Okay, let's get to your questions.
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