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The Bulwark Podcast

Julian Zelizer and Kevin Kruse: History Is Under Assault

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

History became more politicized in the Trump era and the conservative media ecosystem has helped amplify untruths. Princeton's Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer join Charlie Sykes to explain the value of learning both our good and bad history. We can handle the truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Good morning and welcome to the Bullwork podcast. It is January 31st, 2023. We've almost

0:58.0

gotten through the month of January. A lot of things in the news today, Mitch Daniels has

1:03.6

decided that he is not going to be running for Senate and Indiana, which is just another commentary

1:08.4

on the way the Republican Party has changed. George Santos apparently has said that he's going to

1:13.4

recuse himself from many House committees. I wonder how that happened. And the headline in the

1:20.4

Washington Post today, I'm just looking at it, hide your books to avoid felony charges. Florida

1:28.8

schools tell teachers, unsure what titles violate new state rules to school districts, tell educators

1:36.0

to conceal every book for now. So this is going well in the free speech state of Florida. So to

1:45.6

join us to talk about everything that's going on today, as well as their new book, Julian Zellazer

1:51.0

and Kevin Cruz are back on the podcast. Both of them are professors of history at Princeton

1:55.0

University and they are co-editors of myth America. Historians take on the biggest legends and lies

2:02.2

about our past. Julian Kevin, thanks for coming back on the podcast. Thanks for having us.

2:07.5

Always a pleasure. It seems highly relevant to be talking about myths and lies these days.

2:11.6

I want to get to that in just a moment. Before we do, though, I just wanted to highlight

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