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The Rise of the “Influencer-Intellectuals”

How a new generation of social media leftists is marketing a counter-culture online to young radicals

June 2, 2021 • by Annabelle Schwartz-Horney

_____ I am an avid consumer of too many podcasts, and, like many, have a gnawing Instagram habit. I willingly admit I consume more than enough media to entertain a small village. The majority of what I take in walks the line between my study of political theory and commentary on ...

Collars, Cuffs, and History Collaborations

With Welcome to Your Fantasy, a well-known history podcasting team takes on the Chippendales dancers

February 10, 2021 • by Claire Potter, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

"with that, this interview is history."...

Margaret Fuller’s “Conversations” as 19th Century Podcasts

The Best is Lost

June 23, 2017 • by Lora Burnett

If the ante-bellum nineteenth century journalist, Transcendentalist, and feminist Margaret Fuller were alive today, she would have a podcast. Before Fuller’s premature death in 1850, female intellectuals had few outlets for expressing their ideas. Hers was conversation, written and spoken. In conversation with others -- Horace Greeley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo ...