On this week’s Past Present podcast, Niki, Neil, and Natalia discuss Harambe, Ken Starr at Baylor, and Peter Thiel’s attack on Gawker.
Nicole Hemmer
Associate research scholar, Obama Presidency Oral History project, Columbia University
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Associate Professor of History, Eugene Lang College, The New School
Neil J. Young
Opinion writer at The Week and co-host of the history podcast Past Present
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