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Nostalgia Trap

Weekly conversations that reflect on the trap of American history, survey the purgatory of the present, and look forward to a terrifying, beautiful future

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 173: The Farmer is the Man w/ Sarah Taber

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 173: The Farmer is the Man w/ Sarah Taber

Sarah Taber is a crop scientist and ex-farmworker with a wide knowledge of agricultural history and practice, which you ... Read more

19 Dec 2019

1hr 28mins

Ranked #2

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 166: Showing the Receipts w/ Kevin Kruse

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 166: Showing the Receipts w/ Kevin Kruse

Kevin Kruse is a historian at Princeton University and the author of a number of important books about race, class, and ... Read more

22 Oct 2019

58mins

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Ranked #3

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 169: Gaming the Future w/ Mike Pearl

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 169: Gaming the Future w/ Mike Pearl

Mike Pearl is a writer and self-described “apocalypse expert” whose new book The Day It Finally Happens explores the in... Read more

14 Nov 2019

1hr 27mins

Ranked #4

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 170: The Extraterrestrial Left w/ A.M. Gittlitz

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 170: The Extraterrestrial Left w/ A.M. Gittlitz

A.M. Gittlitz is a writer on radical politics, counterculture, and the paranormal, and the producer of a wonderful podca... Read more

21 Nov 2019

1hr 10mins

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 172: Empire of Cruelty w/ Luke O'Neil

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 172: Empire of Cruelty w/ Luke O'Neil

Luke O’Neil is a writer whose work chronicles the dark edges of 21st century America, capturing the horrific tenor of ou... Read more

12 Dec 2019

1hr 7mins

Ranked #6

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 184: History Accelerates w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 184: History Accelerates w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper

With a nation in quarantine, Justin Rogers-Cooper joins us for a deep dive into the political opportunities presented by... Read more

22 Mar 2020

1hr 22mins

Ranked #7

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 183: It Tolls for Thee w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 183: It Tolls for Thee w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper

Justin Rogers-Cooper returns to continue our series on the extraordinary historical moment created by the COVID-19 crisi... Read more

16 Mar 2020

1hr 18mins

Ranked #8

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 168: Fight Club, But Woke w/ Sam Yang

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 168: Fight Club, But Woke w/ Sam Yang

Sam Yang is the host of Southpaw, a podcast about the intersection of leftist politics and combat sports. Yang is on a ... Read more

5 Nov 2019

1hr 15mins

Ranked #9

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 174: Engineering Addiction w/ Sarah Milov

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 174: Engineering Addiction w/ Sarah Milov

Sarah Milov is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and the author of The Cigarette: A Political Histor... Read more

9 Jan 2020

1hr 4mins

Ranked #10

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 181: Modeling the Future w/ Kevin Baker

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 181: Modeling the Future w/ Kevin Baker

Kevin Baker is a historian studying the ways policymakers use predictive computer models to map the future. In this conv... Read more

3 Mar 2020

59mins

Ranked #11

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 162: Doomsday Politics w/ Bill Black

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 162: Doomsday Politics w/ Bill Black

With Trap favorite Bill Black joining us, a conversation about David’s irrational fear of spiders leads into a wider con... Read more

19 Sep 2019

1hr 18mins

Ranked #12

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 164: School's Out Forever w/ Brendan O'Malley

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 164: School's Out Forever w/ Brendan O'Malley

Brendan O’Malley is a historian and teacher whose experience with his school’s abrupt closure was the subject of a fasc... Read more

10 Oct 2019

1hr 23mins

Ranked #13

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 160: Growth Mindset w/ KJ Shepherd

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 160: Growth Mindset w/ KJ Shepherd

KJ Shepherd is a Ph.D. historian whose research focuses on the history of American standardized testing and the “test pr... Read more

2 Sep 2019

1hr 16mins

Ranked #14

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 161: Circling the Eschaton w/ Erik Davis

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 161: Circling the Eschaton w/ Erik Davis

Writer and cultural critic Erik Davis joins us to discuss his fascinating, often startling new book, High Weirdness: Dru... Read more

10 Sep 2019

1hr 18mins

Ranked #15

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 159: Subtext Becomes Text w/ Eli Valley

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 159: Subtext Becomes Text w/ Eli Valley

Eli Valley is a comic artist and writer with an intense, visceral aesthetic that perfectly captures the rotten politics ... Read more

22 Aug 2019

1hr 4mins

Ranked #16

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 157: Above the Law w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 157: Above the Law w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper

Justin Rogers-Cooper returns to continue our discussion of this Summer of Strangeness, this time taking on the Jeffrey E... Read more

31 Jul 2019

1hr 14mins

Ranked #17

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 180: Vibe Check w/ KJ Shepherd and Bill Black

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 180: Vibe Check w/ KJ Shepherd and Bill Black

Trap favorites KJ Shepherd and Bill Black return for a much-needed election year vibe check, in which we discuss our ind... Read more

24 Feb 2020

1hr 6mins

Ranked #18

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 186: Bodies and Power w/ Yasmin Nair

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 186: Bodies and Power w/ Yasmin Nair

Yasmin Nair is a writer and activist who always says what’s on her mind, and the results are consistently some of the mo... Read more

1 Apr 2020

1hr 16mins

Ranked #19

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 176: The Gig Academy w/ Tom DePaola

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 176: The Gig Academy w/ Tom DePaola

Tom DePaola is a Ph.D. candidate studying higher ed and academic labor at USC, and co-author (along with Adrianna J. Kez... Read more

30 Jan 2020

1hr 23mins

Ranked #20

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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 163: Waging Peace w/ Susan Schnall

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 163: Waging Peace w/ Susan Schnall

Susan Schnall served as a nurse in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. Her experiences treating wounded Marines at Oak... Read more

2 Oct 2019

1hr 13mins

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