Jill Lepore on Nationalism, Populism, and the State of America

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🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Historian and author Jill Lepore talks about nationalism, populism, and the state of America with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Lepore argues that we need a new Americanism, a common story we share and tell ourselves. Along the way, topics in the conversation include populism, the rise of globalization, and the challenge of knowing what is true and what is false in the internet era.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
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0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.0	Today is March 1st, 2019, and my guest is historian and author Jill Lapurre.
0:39.3	The David Woods Kemper 41 professor of American History at Harvard University.
0:44.1	She is a staff writer for The New Yorker.
0:46.0	Her latest book is These Truths, A History of the United States.
0:50.5	Our conversation for today draws on a recent essay.
0:53.6	She wrote for Foreign Affairs, A New Americanism Why a Nation Needs a National Story.
0:59.3	Jill, welcome to Econ Talk.
1:01.3	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:03.7	And I said you have a new book coming out, This America, The Case for the Nation, which
1:09.0	this essay is in the same spirit of.
1:11.4	And you opened your piece talking about the last part of the 20th century as a time when
1:16.4	nationalism was on the Wayne, and historians were not very interested in it.
1:21.1	Why do you think that was the case, both of those points?
1:23.1	Why was nationalism on the Wayne and why had historians lost interest?
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