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Long Shadow - Scene on Radio S4E1: Rich Man’s Revolt

<p>In the American Revolution, the men who revolted were among the wealthiest and most comfortable people in the colonies. What kind of revolution was it, anyway? Was it about a desire to establish democracy—or something else? Episode 1 of Scene on Radio’s Season 4 series, <em>The Land That Never Has Been Yet</em>, explores American democracy and the lack thereof.</p>

Scene on Radio S4E1: Rich Man’s Revolt

Long Shadow in Guns We Trust will return with episode 4 on Tuesday, May 7th.

In the meantime, we'd like to share an episode of another podcast that we think long shadow listeners will love, seen on radio.

A Peabody Award-nominated podcast, seen on radio does season-long dives

into big issues like race, gender, the climate crisis.

Its fourth season, titled The Land That Never Has Been Yet, retails the story of American

Democracy and its flaws and contradictions at a time

when American democracy is under threat from within. The episode you'll hear

one, which man's revolt, offers a take on the American Revolution that

Though the series was released in 2020, it's just as relevant during this election year.

We think listeners of Long Shadow Season 2, Rise of the American Far Right,

We hope you enjoy this episode of Seen on Radio, and will return with a new episode of

Long Shadow in Guns We Trust next week. The reality of this is that the president's apparent disregard for the rule of law has been a theme.

This is in fact a violation of our democratic norms, the separation of powers, and there's so many other norms that President Trump...

And today, the country of James Madison, has a leader who vilifies the media,

making honest journalists all over the world more vulnerable to abuse.

One of my proudest moments is when I looked at Barack Obama in the eye and I said

Mr President you will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy.

In the last few years powerful people have assaulted some of the basic practices of democracy

The April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School hurtled the United States into an era of mass shootings. Now, a quarter century later, the horrors of that day have become an almost regular facet of American life, and gun violence a record-smashing epidemic. Clad in both camouflage and Kevlar, 21st-century America is a bastion of freedom where workplaces require active shooter protocols, schools run lockdown drills, and the Second Amendment has become a religion unto itself.Guns are a uniquely American problem, but the U.S. wasn’t always like this. LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST explores the story of the people — some names you'll know, some you won't — who changed the way America relates to guns, for better or worse. This season, host Garrett Graff, in collaboration with The Trace, chronicles how firearms moved from being an ordinary part of the background of rural life to a menacing element of modern American life.Crackling with rich archival tape and riveting eyewitness and expert interviews, this narrative podcast examines threads of history that are vitally relevant to our current political climate. In LONG SHADOW’s first season, Graff, a Pulitzer-finalist and a best-selling author and historian, examined the lingering questions of 9/11, the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Season two chronicled how bloody tragedies at the hands of federal agents led to the rise of American far-right extremism and ultimately the January 6 insurrection. Season three will help listeners understand how simply carrying firearms has become its own act of defiance, and how a very specific, carefully manufactured fear has driven explosive demand for guns across America. How did we get here? Subscribe and listen to LONG SHADOW to find out.LONG SHADOW: IN GUNS WE TRUST is produced by <a href="https://www.longlead.com">Long Lead</a> and <a href="https://www.campsidemedia.com">Campside Media</a> in collaboration with <a href="https://www.thetrace.org">The Trace</a>, and is distributed by <a href="https://www.prx.org">PRX</a>.

0:00.0	Garrett here.
0:01.0	Long Shadow in Guns We Trust will return with episode 4 on Tuesday, May 7th.
0:08.0	In the meantime, we'd like to share an episode of another podcast that we think long shadow listeners will love, seen on radio.
0:15.6	A Peabody Award-nominated podcast, seen on radio does season-long dives
0:20.9	into big issues like race, gender, the climate crisis.
0:26.1	Its fourth season, titled The Land That Never Has Been Yet, retails the story of American
0:32.1	Democracy and its flaws and contradictions at a time
0:36.1	when American democracy is under threat from within. The episode you'll hear
0:41.6	today, episode one,
0:44.0	one, which man's revolt, offers a take on the American Revolution that
0:47.5	chances are you've never heard.
0:50.3	Though the series was released in 2020, it's just as relevant during this election year.
0:55.2	We think listeners of Long Shadow Season 2, Rise of the American Far Right,
1:00.8	we'll find it particularly fascinating.
1:03.6	We hope you enjoy this episode of Seen on Radio, and will return with a new episode of
1:08.5	Long Shadow in Guns We Trust next week. The reality of this is that the president's apparent disregard for the rule of law has been a theme.
1:24.6	This is in fact a violation of our democratic norms, the separation of powers, and there's so many other norms that President Trump...
1:30.8	And today, the country of James Madison, has a leader who vilifies the media,
1:36.2	making honest journalists all over the world more vulnerable to abuse.
1:40.6	One of my proudest moments is when I looked at Barack Obama in the eye and I said
1:44.0	Mr President you will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy.
1:47.0	In the last few years powerful people have assaulted some of the basic practices of democracy
	...

Scene on Radio S4E1: Rich Man’s Revolt

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