Supporting members of the military to resist deployment has taken on a new urgency as Trump sends troops into American cities. Journalist Steve Early discusses the history of soldier organizing — including as workers — from Vietnam to the present. And Suzanne Gordon reflects on why the broad public should care about the administration’s attack … Continued
Film brings to us — with unparalleled rawness — what feels like the intimate experience of war. But how true is that visceral feeling? And how do the tension and excitement of war on screen ultimately affect our sympathy toward each other and our humanity? David Thomson, one of the greatest film historians of our … Continued
In the United States, few things seem as wholesome as camping, letting us temporarily escape the daily grind and commune with nature and each other. But Phoebe Young argues that camping has a complicated history, which tell us a lot about Americans’ notions of nature and the nation. She discusses the various forms that camping … Continued
Latest reports say Earth’s climate has now been permanently altered by global warming: there’s no going back. Now what? Dr. Michael Mann with the 411. PLUS: A new film on draft resistance and the Vietnam war. Hosted by Kris Welch. PHOTO: Juan Encalada
This year is the 75th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And there is more potential for nuclear holocaust now. Gar Alperovitz connects the past, present —and future. Hosted by Kris Welch. Gar Alperovitz is a historian, political economist, activist, and the author of critically acclaimed books on the atomic bomb and … Continued
Fifty years later, babies in Vietnam are still being born disabled by U.S.-sprayed Agent Orange. We hear what’s being done to take responsibility. PLUS: a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies analyzes the deep roots and eternal impacts of poverty in the U.S. We talk with Phyllis Bennis. With host Kris Welch.
It was the 1960s ” and throughout the United States, opposition to the War in Vietnam was growing. The Draft forced young men to make a choice about their own participation in the war. And many chose to resist. Over the course of the war, 2.6 million went to fight in Vietnam. More than 15 … Continued
Robert Olen Butler, author of the novel “Perfume River,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Robert Olen Butler is the author of several novels and short story collections. His collection, “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain” won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The author of sixteen novels and six collections of short stories, his best-known works focus on the legacy of Vietnam, either looking at the war itself or on its aftermath in Vietnam and in America.
The Vietnam War came to an end in 1975. But another battle is brewing — as Obama has launched a decade of commemoration — and that is over how the war is to be remembered. Was it a noble cause that was poorly executed? Or was the war itself immoral? And when we look at … Continued
A big, important new book about one year in U.S. history that changed everything: 1969-1970. Author Clara Bingham and your phoned-in questions. With host Kris Welch.
