My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Bruce Carlson
4.6from 1,223 ratings
- 767
- Episodes
- 200
- Transcribed
- 1,223
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2006
- First episode
About My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Since 2006, this podcast has been using history to elevate today's political debates. "The perfect antidote to bloviating talking heads, My History is thoughtful, nuanced, and highly engaging." -Columbia Journalism Review
- Publisher
- Bruce Carlson
- Category
- history · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jul 2006
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
200 of 767 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
HOW BOOMERS WERE VIEWED IN 1966
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
REFUSING A CROWN? WASHINGTON AND HIS DECISION w/ RICHARD LIM OF THIS AMERICAN PRESIDENT
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
"I WILL TELL YOU WHAT THE NEWS IS" OUR MEDIATED REPUBLIC, EIGHTH AND FINAL
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HOW BOOMERS WERE VIEWED IN 1966
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They call them generation now, the inheritor generation. They haven't come up with baby boomer yet, but this is the group that will be called the baby boomers. Predictably, they are a highly independent breed, and to adult eyes, their independent has made them highly unpredictable. This is not just a new generation, but a new kind of generation. Cushioned. by unprecedented affluence and the welfare state, he has a sense of economic security unmatched in history. Granted to an ever-lengthening adolescence and lifespan, he no longer fields the cold pressures of hunger and mortality that drove Mozart to compose an entire canon before death at age 35. […]
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- 4.6 / 5
- 1,137 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 86 ratings
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- YouTube
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- Engagement
- 99
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