Why These Protests Are Different Than 1968
Angry Planet5 Jun 2020

Why These Protests Are Different Than 1968

Our guest today is Rick Perlstein. Perlstein is a historian and author best known for Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. He’s also written the forthcoming Reaganland: America’s Right Turn.


  • This is more WTO in 1999 than it is 1968


  • Why we don’t remember Newark


  • Is the press doing better this time?


  • The Jimmy Carter Crisis.


  • How the Presidency shapes the American people.


  • Defining Fascism

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