The New, Old White Supremacist Movement
At the height of the election season last September, Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables.” The comments spread like wildfire, and the next day, Clinton walked th...
6 Jun 201737min
How Politics Turns Violent
The culture wars of the Boomer generation still shape our politics today. In this episode we look at those culture wars from another vantage point. Instead of focusing on the debates themselves, we as...
30 Mai 201737min
Music, McCarthy, and the Sound of Americana
In the 1920s, composer Aaron Copland took off for Paris. His search for a uniquely American classical music resulted in some of the most familiar and patriotic music of the 20th Century — including hi...
23 Mai 201734min
America's Allergy to Intellect — Why It Keeps Flaring Up
During the last election, when asked his opinion about experts and intellectuals, Trump supporter Fiore Napolitano voiced a fairly common sentiment from his cohort, "I've got more brains in my little ...
16 Mai 201727min
The Birth of Climate Denial
Starting with the 1925 Scopes Trial — also known as the "trial of the century" — we look at one of the most controversial topics in our time: the debate over evolution versus a Fundamentalist understa...
11 Mai 201737min
Whose Kansas Is it Anyway?
The city of Olathe, Kansas, has been shaken since February when a man gunned down two Indian immigrants in a bar there. Witnesses say the shooter yelled, “Go back to your country!” It was the first h...
9 Mai 201733min
Welcome to The United States of Anxiety: Culture Wars
The United States of Anxiety: Culture Wars introduces you to people who have been battling to shape America’s political culture for decades. We profile culture warriors, past and present, who have inf...
3 Mai 20175min
Call-In Special: Across the Aisle
With The United States of Anxiety, WNYC Studios and The Nation brought forth the ideas and concerns that made up part of the coalition bringing President-elect Donald Trump from his midtown Manhattan ...
22 Nov 201658min
