Podcast appearances and mentions of matt karp

Subscribe now for the full episode. "Top Secret" subscribers get a free one-year digital subscription to The Nation! Danny speaks with Matt Karp, associate professor of history at Princeton, about party formation in the 1850s as well as his take on the Trump phenomenon. They explore the downfall of the Whigs and rise of the Republicans, the structure of the political parties at the beginning of the republic, the relationship of ideology and party, why we have a giant two-party system despite regional differences, mass democracy in the 19th century and today, Trump minimalists vs. maximalists, and more.    Check out Matt's book This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy and his article on Trump for New Left Review, “Maxed Out.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Princeton Professor and Civil War-era historian Matt Karp returns to Bad Faith to discuss how a third party won the White House by fighting for the ethical issue of the time: Slavery. How did Republicans break the duopoly to become a major party, and what lessons can the contemporary left learn from a historical example of a successful American third party? Also, Matt and Brie discuss the 2024 election, the post-Bernie moment, and what's next for the left. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Journalist Thomas Frank and historian Matt Karp discuss how Kamala Harris lost. But first, Palestinian Youth Movement organizer Lea Kayali talks about the "Mask Off Maersk" campaign which seeks to cut ties with one of the world's largest shipping and logistics companies that directly ships weapons and weapons components that facilitate Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people. Thomas Frank is an American political analyst, historian, and journalist. He co-founded and edited The Baffler magazine and is the author of the books "What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America," "Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?", "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism," among others. From 2008 to 2010 he wrote "The Tilting Yard", a column in The Wall Street Journal. Matthew Karp is an Associate Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of "This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy," (Harvard University Press). Karp is now at work on two books, both under contract with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux."Millions of Abolitionists: The Republican Party and the Political War on Slavery," is about the emergence of American antislavery mass politics. His other book is a meditation on the politics of U.S. history, and explores the ways that narratives of the American experience both serve and shape different ideological ends — in the nineteenth century, the twentieth century, and today. Karp is a contributing editor for Jacobin. His work has also appeared in The Nation, The Boston Review, and The London Review of Books. Lea Kayali is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians and Arabs in diaspora. In her organizing, she has supported the Evict Elbit campaign which ousted the weapons manufacturer from their innovation hub in Massachusetts, and was involved in the Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine encampment. She is currently organizing with the PYM's Mask Off MAERSK campaign, which aims to expose the logistics giant's role in facilitating the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. **Please support The Katie Halper Show ** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

On Trump's return and the end of the End of History (still!) Historian and Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp joins us to extract the true meaning of the US election. We discuss: How Trump's victory explodes so many Democrat assumptions about demography and identity How this election re-writes the past ten years' history Whether Trump still retains an anti-political or anti-establishment charge If the Democrats are preponderant in leading sectors of the knowledge economy, is this a political rejection of its assumptions? How to place this election in the sweep of the global anti-incumbency wave What the relationship is between inflation, labour and legitimacy Links: Power Lines, Matt Karp, Harper's It's Happening Again, Matt Karp, Jacobin Democrats join 2024's graveyard of incumbents, John Burn-Murdoch, FT /262/ The Useless Past ft. Matt Karp /447/ Brunch Back Better ft. Ryan Zickgraf & Amber A'Lee Frost /445/ How I Hacked the US Election ft. Alex Gourevitch

Hello! We're joined today by Matt Karp, a columnist for Harper's, a professor of History at Princeton and one of the most intelligent and incisive writers on the left. We talk about AOC's big night at the DNC, the somewhat moribund state of the left after Bernie's big win in the 2020 Nevada primary, and whether the future for the left is bright or gloomy. This was a lively one and lotta good thinking from Matt here so please take a listen! One note: apologies I think there was some street work being done towards the back end but we tried to clean it up as best as we could. Shouldn't be too much of a problem. thanks! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit goodbye.substack.com/subscribe

Historian Matt Karp joins us to discuss the midterms and what they tell us about class dealignment in the United States.

Reading list:* Corey Robin's Facebook Page* Not Yet Falling Apart: Two thinkers on the left offer a guide to navigating the stormy seas of modernity, by moi* Straight Outta Chappaqua: How Westchester-bred lefty prof Corey Robin came to loathe Israel, defend Steven Salaita, and help cats, by Phoebe Maltz Bovy* Online Fracas for a Critic of the Right, by Jennifer Schuessler* Scholar Behind U. of Illinois Boycotts Is a Longtime Activist, by Marc ParryA few years ago, I got this text from a friend after my guest on this episode of the podcast, Corey Robin, said something nice about my book on Facebook: “When Corey Robin is praising you on Facebook, you've arrived, my friend.”He was being funny, but also just saying a true thing. Corey Robin is a big deal on the intellectual left in America, and for the better part of a decade, from about 2012 to 2019, his Facebook page was one of the most vital and interesting spaces on the American intellectual left. Back in 2017, I wrote this about Corey and his most influential book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin:The Reactionary Mind has emerged as one of the more influential political works of the last decade. Robin himself has become, since the book's publication, one of the more aura-laden figures on the intellectual left. Paul Krugman cites him and the book periodically in his New York Times columns and on his blog. Robin's Facebook page, which he uses as a blog and discussion forum, has become one of the places to watch to understand where thinking on the left is. Another key node of the intellectual left is Crooked Timber, a group blog of left-wing academics to which Robin is a long-time contributor, and another is Jacobin, a socialist magazine that often re-publishes Robin's blog posts sans edits, like dispatches from the oracle.I've long been fascinated by Corey's Facebook page, in particular, because it was such a novel space. It couldn't exist prior to the internet, and if there were any other important writers who used the platform in that way, as a real venue for thoughtful and vigorous political discussion, I'm not familiar with them. It didn't replace or render obsolete the magazines, like The Nation and Dissent, that were the traditional places where the left talked to itself. It was just a different thing, an improvisational, unpredictable, rolling forum where you went to see what people of a certain bent were talking about, who the key players were, what the key debates were. And Corey himself, in this context, had a charismatic presence. To even get him to respond seriously to a comment you made on one of his posts was to get a little thrill. To be praised by Corey, in the main text of a post, was to feel like you were a made man. Over the past few weeks I've spent some time dipping into the archives of his page, and while there I compiled a list of notable names who showed up as commenters. My list included: Lauren Berlant, Matt Karp, Tim Lacy, Miriam Markowitz, Annette Gordon Reed,  Doug Henwood, Jeet Heer, Freddie Deboer, Raina Lipsitz, Elayne Tobin, Scott Lemieux, Paul Buhle, Jedediah Purdy, Jodi Dean, Alex Gourevitch, Tamsin Shaw, Rick Perlstein, Greg Grandin, Katha Pollitt, Joel Whitney, Liza Featherstone, Andrew Hartman, Rebecca Vilkomerson, Samuel Moyn, Tim Lacy, Yasmin Nair, Bhaskar Sunsara, Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, Gideon Lewis Kraus.This is just the people I recognized (or googled ) in my brief time skimming. The full list of eminent leftist Americans who populated Corey's page over the years would surely run to hundreds of names, which is to say that a significant portion, maybe even a majority, of the writers and intellectuals who comprised the intellectual left in those years was reading and participating in his page. How this came about, and what it meant, is one of the topics we cover in the podcast, which ended up being a kind of stock-taking of sorts of the very recent history of the American left. We also talk about Corey's involvement as an organizer with GESO, Yale's graduate student union, when he was getting his PhD in political science; his retrospective thoughts on why he over-estimated the strength of the American left in the mid-2010s; what he got right about Trump and Trumpism; and why Clarence Thomas may be corrupt, but is at least intellectually honest about it. Corey is a professor at Brooklyn College and the author of three books: Fear: The History of a Political Idea, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (revised and re-issued as Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump), and most recently The Enigma of Clarence Thomas. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and Jacobin, among many other places.  Eminent Americans is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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Wos and Nando are off this week but in honor of #TBT the fellas wanted to run back the time were joined by special guest Matt Karp, a contributing editor at Jacobin and associate professor at Princeton. The trio dives into Matt's recent article about the potential new gilded ages ahead and how that ties into the recent news of Joe Biden passing a new stimulus and his swing towards the working class. WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: Youtube.com/countthedings1 Produced by John Jervay - https://twitter.com/johnjervay Sign up for The Athletic: TheAthletic.com/dings Support us on www.patreon.com/countthedings Find us: www.countthedings.com Social: @countthedings @bommpodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/countthedings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wos and Nando are off this week but in honor of #TBT the fellas wanted to run back the time were joined by special guest Matt Karp, a contributing editor at Jacobin and associate professor at Princeton. The trio dives into Matt's recent article about the potential new gilded ages ahead and how that ties into the recent news of Joe Biden passing a new stimulus and his swing towards the working class. WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: Youtube.com/countthedings1 Produced by John Jervay - https://twitter.com/johnjervay Sign up for The Athletic: TheAthletic.com/dings Support us on www.patreon.com/countthedings Find us: www.countthedings.com Social: @countthedings @bommpodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/countthedings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wos and Nando are off this week but in honor of #TBT the fellas wanted to run back the time were joined by special guest Matt Karp, a contributing editor at Jacobin and associate professor at Princeton. The trio dives into Matt's recent article about the potential new gilded ages ahead and how that ties into the recent news of Joe Biden passing a new stimulus and his swing towards the working class. WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: Youtube.com/countthedings1 Produced by John Jervay - https://twitter.com/johnjervay Sign up for The Athletic: TheAthletic.com/dings Support us on www.patreon.com/countthedings Find us: www.countthedings.com Social: @countthedings @bommpodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/countthedings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Will Beaman (@agoingaccount) offers critical reflection on recent statements by Jacobin Magazine's Matt Karp, in which he dismissed recent Democratic Party primary victories against establishment candidates as moving backwards to a "pre-Bernie era" of "vague constellations of grab-bag progressives."

On liberals' embrace of the past and history wars. We talk to Matthew Karp about his essay, "History As End: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past". It seems as if there's an ideological inversion going on, where liberals see history in terms of original sin and cycles of injustice, or at best, want to relitigate the past in order to fight battles of the present. Meanwhile conservatives have abandoned the past. What does this say about current attitudes to capital-h History and making the future? Readings: History As End: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past, Matt Karp, Harpers Ends in Sight: Marx/Fukuyama/Hobsbawm/Anderson, Gregory Elliott The End of the End of History, Bungacast

Historian James Oakes explains how the 1619 Project misconstrues the relationship between slavery and capitalism and what the left can learn from the mass politics of the antislavery movement.The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from September 28, 2021 with Jen Pan and Cale Brooks hosting. The historian Matt Karp joins the program as well.Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclubSubscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=JACOBINYTMusic provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkeyPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag

This new series on the Brahmin Left was inspired by our bracing but terrifying interview with Thomas Piketty. So what even is the Brahmin Left? There seems to be little disagreement that a major realignment (or, rather, a “dealignment”) from the class-based politics of the mid-20th century is underway all over Europe and North America–and … Continue reading "60 Brahmin Left 1: Matt Karp on class dealignment (AU, JP)"

Today we've got historian Matt Karp on to talk about his recent article in Harper's on the 1619 Project and right-wing attempts to suppress anti-racism in the classroom.   Items mentioned in the episode: John Ganz on the 1619 Project; Frederick Douglass on the 4th of July, America's composite nationality, and his eulogy for Lincoln, and John Mercer Langston on the world anti-slavery movement.   Also don't forget to pre-order Ryan's book!

After an extended intro by Adam, we're joined by Matt Karp who wrote a great essay a few months ago called "The Politics of a Second Gilded Age" (https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/the-politics-of-a-second-gilded-age). Listen to this episode in its entirety by becoming a patron: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits

As Republicans embraced anti-elitism under Trump, Democrats reacted by embracing the values of the upper-middle class. The result, according to historian Matt Karp is a party that often - intentionally or unintentionally - distances itself from the working class, which it used to champion. The professional class has made all opposition the "other," embracing a partisan identity politics that says "if you're not with us, you're against us." But pushback is coming from both the right and the left. Karp discusses how the mainstream media has mischaracterized what Bernie Sanders is trying to do, and then digs deep into his historical research to provide analogies from the past that explain the present moment.

Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the episode from April 21, 2021, hosted by Jen and Paul. Historian Matt Karp joins us to discuss how and why identity politics surface during eras of extreme economic inequality in the US, and the different schools of left-wing history. Read Matt's essay: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/the-po...​ Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod... Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag

Matt Karp, Princeton historian and Jacobin contributing editor discusses President Biden’s stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan that was passed by the Senate and is touted by many as a paradigm change. Matt says an injection of much needed cash isn’t the same thing as empowering workers or creating a constituency for change, and we’ll get him to explain. Emil Draitser joins us to talk about his new book, In the Jaws of the Crocodile: A Soviet Memoir. Emil recounts how he became a journalist in the Soviet Union and why the detour into satire was not just the only, but also the best path. We also talk about the new Oscar nominated Andrei Konchalovsky film “Dear Comrades!” about an important strike and massacre in Novocherkassk in southern Russia in 1962. Everything about that strike and the response from the authorities gives us insight into the nature of the Soviet Union.

To access this week's postgame, support the show by subscribing at patreon.com/leftreckoning.Matt Karp (@Karpmj), contributing editor to Jacobin and 19th century historian joins us to talk about class dealignment in the Gilded Age and how we could be entering a similar phase under Biden. Also, what does the Covid relief spending mean for Matt's thesis?Also, Lula is cleared to run again next year.

Wos and Nando are joined by special guest Matt Karp, a contributing editor at Jacobin and associate professor at Princeton. The trio dives into Matt’s recent article about the potential new gilded ages ahead and how that ties into the recent news of Joe Biden passing a new stimulus and his swing towards the working class. Produced by: Rob Lopez Read Matt’s article here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/02/the-politics-of-a-second-gilded-age Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com/countthedings1 Subscribe to TMBS www.patreon.com/TMBS Support us: www.patreon.com/countthedingsFind us: www.countthedings.comSocial: @countthedings @bommpodcast@bigwos @nandorvilaFacebook.com/countthedings

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Suzi talks to Matt Karp, contributing editor of Jacobin, about the significance of the 2020 election in geographic and demographic terms. Biden won both the popular vote and the electoral college in an election with historic turnout, but without the kind of landslide many expected — and higher turnouts seem to have inflated totals for both parties. The Democrats may have won back the Blue Wall, taking Arizona, Georgia and Nevada from the Republicans, but Trump also secured a record vote, and the Democrats did badly in down ticket races. We get Matt's insights on the Democratic Party’s election strategy and results — as well as what they portend for the Left of the Party.  Suzi then talks to Mike Davis to get his analysis of the election results, looking in particular at South Texas, as well as the exurbs. In South Texas a blue wave along the Rio Grande from El Paso to Brownsville was taken for granted, but failed to materialize, and the Republicans out-organized the Democrats. Mike helps us understand why Latinos voted for Trump, despite his horrific immigration policies — and we get Mike’s take on why the Democratic Party’s strategy — that allowed a bifurcation of Trump’s handling of the pandemic and the economy — was such a disaster.

A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. This week we have a US election special on A World to Win, as the world’s leading superpower melts down over a cliff-edge presidential contest. Grace Blakeley is joined by two guests – former Bernie Sanders national press secretary Briahna Joy Gray and Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp – to discuss the Biden landslide that never was, the deep polarisation in American politics and the way forward for the US Left. A reminder that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune’s designer Kevin Zweerink for their work on this episode. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust.

This week, Grace talks to Briahna Joy Gray, Bernie Sanders' former Press Secretary and host of the Bad Faith podcast, and Matt Karp, Jacobin contributing editor and associate professor of history at Princeton University. As the results continued to roll in throughout the day on Wednesday, Grace discussed with her guests the roots of the Biden landslide that never was, and where the left should go next. The full episode is free for all listeners this week, but if you want access to the full hour-long interviews with amazing guests like Naomi Klein and Dr Cornel West, sign up to become a Patron: https://patreon.com/aworldtowinpod

A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. This week we have a US election special on A World to Win, as the world’s leading superpower melts down over a cliff-edge presidential contest. Grace Blakeley is joined by two guests – former Bernie Sanders national press secretary Briahna Joy Gray and Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp – to discuss the Biden landslide that never was, the deep polarisation in American politics and the way forward for the US Left. A reminder that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune’s designer Kevin Zweerink for their work on this episode. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust.  

In this episode of “Special Relationship” we look at the difference between the courts in the United States and the United Kingdom following the recent death of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. For the Matt Karp article that Gabriel references, see https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/abraham-lincoln-supreme-court-slavery.  For our monthly recommendations, John chose the HBO series Lovecraft Country while Gabriel recommended Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s recent book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.

This is the free weekly edition of TMBS. To support us on Patreon and receive hours of weekly members-only content, subscribe at Patreon.com/tmbs Matt Karp (@Karpmj) joins us to talk about his pieces: How Abraham Lincoln Fought the Supreme Court Bernie Sanders's Five-Year War And Luke Mayville (@LukeMayville) on his piece in Commonweal: How Progressives Win in Rural America Also, the disastrous lack of relief from Covid.  

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast In the full episode, Brie and Virgil react to the news of RBG's death and lay out the nightmare scenarios for the far-right cementing their majority on the Supreme Court. Later, panelists Barbara Smith and Matt Karp unpack Trump's war on critical race theory and try to get to the bottom of why people are mad at identity politics. Panel: Barbara Smith (@TheBarbaraSmith), longtime black feminist author and activist, one of the co-authors of the Combahee River Collective statement, which coined the term "identity politics" Matt Karp (@karpmj), professor of history at Princeton University and contributing editor at Jacobin

Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show from September 5th, with Ariella Thornhill filling in for Ana. The guest today is Matt Karp. Matt is a historian, Jacobin contributing editor, and author of This Vast Southern Empire. Matt's epic new essay from the print issue can be read here. Subscribe to Jacobin here.

Brothers-in-law Amit and Tony invite on guest of the show Matt Karp to chat about the peaks and valleys of the Bernie campaign(s) and why we totally want to and don't want to see Presidential debates.

We speak to historian Matt Karp about his Catalyst article "The Mass Politics of Antislavery" and what the success of abolitionist politics in the 19th century has to teach radicals in the 21st. Matt is a new dad so this episode features some background baby sounds. Matt's article: https://catalyst-journal.com/vol3/no2/the-mass-politics-of-antislavery

Owing to the leading role of African-Americans, Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign imploded, and now an uprising for Black lives and against police violence has swept the US and the world. The co-hosts lay out the case that these events have delivered body blows to the theory and strategy of Jacobin magazine and others on the anti-neoliberal “left,” consigning them to the Jaco-dustbin of history. Brendan and Andrew argue that the recent upsurge constitutes mass repudiation of so-called “class-based”—economistic and color-blind––politics. They also argue that Sanders’ campaign imploded, not because of directives issued by Democratic Party bosses, but because voters, led by millions of Black “neoliberal shills,” wanted to end Democratic Party infighting in order to concentrate on removing Trump from office. And they discuss why it is so difficult for the anti-neoliberal “left” to learn from its repeated errors. The discussion refers to works by Raya Dunayevskaya (American Civilization on Trial) (http://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/American-Civilization-on-Trial.pdf), Sydney Ember (New York Times) (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/us/politics/bernie-sanders-protests.html), Dustin Guastella (https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/we-need-a-class-war-not-a-cultural-war), Tucker Carlson (https://video.foxnews.com/v/6161246981001#sp=show-clips), MHI’s 2018 Perspectives (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/mhieditorial/resisting-trumpist-reaction-and-left-accommodation-marxist-humanist-initiatives-perspectives-for-2018.html), Zack Beauchamp (Vox) (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/10/21214970/bernie-sanders-2020-lost-class-socialism), Nathan J. Robinson (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/03/what-the-stakes-are), Matt Karp (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/03/bernie-sanders-can-still-win-matt-karp-joe-biden-democrat), Edward-Isaac Dovere (The Atlantic) (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/bernie-sanders-thinking-he-will-win-it-all-2020/587326/), Daniel Denvir (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy-riots-coronavirus), and Meagan Day (Vox interview by Sean Illing) (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/16/21165201/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-2020-election-meagan-day). In a related current-events segment, the co-hosts discuss the struggle to remove Confederate monuments and other symbols. Is a struggle over symbols always a merely symbolic struggle? * ~ * ~ * ~ * Radio Free Humanity is a podcast covering news, politics and philosophy from a Marxist-Humanist perspective. It is co-hosted by Brendan Cooney and Andrew Kliman. We intend to release new episodes every two weeks. Radio Free Humanity is sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (MHI), but the views expressed by the co-hosts and guests of Radio Free Humanity are their own. They do not necessarily reflect the views and positions of MHI. We welcome and encourage listeners’ comments, posted on this episode’s page of the MHI website. Please visit MHI’s website for information on philosophy & organization, Marxist-Humanist archives, and its online publication, “With Sober Senses”: https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/

It’s impossible to know whether a political candidate is electable until they’ve actually been elected—but that hasn’t stopped pundits from speculating ad nauseam about the question. Episode 3 of The Politics of Everything investigates where the concept of electability comes from, the nature of the historical moments in which it crops up, and the risks we invite by using the term. How central to Joe Biden’s appeal is his ostensible electability? What do supposedly unelectable candidates have in common? How much are voters prizing familiarity or “safety” over policy, and will this calculation get us into trouble? Hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk to Seth Ackerman, the executive editor of Jacobin; Matt Karp, a historian at Princeton; and Rebecca Katz, the founder of New Deal Strategies, a progressive consulting firm. Later in the episode, campaign reporter Walter Shapiro considers how coronavirus may shape the rest of the Democratic primary. Will the convention be held as planned in Milwaukee? Does anyone care if it isn’t? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suzi looks at the significance and aftermath of South Carolina and Super Tuesday, asking basic questions about the disconnect between the enthusiasm and support for progressive policies and Bernie Sanders (and Elizabeth Warren to a lesser degree), and the reality of people then voting for Biden. Was it fear, motivated by the constant drum of the corporate media that Bernie is not electable but Biden is? We get views and analysis from our guests Matt Karp and Adolph Reed.

This is the free weekly edition of TMBS. To support the Michael Brooks Show on Patreon and receive hours of weekly members-only content, subscribe at Patreon.com/tmbs Matt Karp (@karpmj) joins us to discuss the ongoing effort to make Bernie Sanders president. How well the critique of the PMS has aged. Creating a safe space for Bernie and why we should be confident at our unprecedented situation heading into Nevada. Warren's melting campaign. The formal end of democracy, starring Mike Bloomberg.

Bernie Sanders is not just the candidate with the strongest left platform as well as the only candidate with a vision of social and political change coming from the bottom-up rather than the top down. He is also the most electable candidate. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Meagan Day is a staff writer at Jacobin. She's the coauthor, with Matt Karp, of "Bernie Is the Candidate Who Can Beat Trump. Here’s Why" in Jacobin, which you can read here: https://jacobinmag.com/2019/12/bernie-sanders-vs-donald-trump Preorder our forthcoming book from evil Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Political-Revolution-Democratic-Socialism/dp/1788738381

Jacobin magazine "cool kid" Meagan Day on her piece (co-written with friend of the show & recent father Matt Karp) "Bernie Is the Candidate Who Can Beat Trump. Here's Why." Plus why Sanders is the most feminist candidate and is married to Meagan and her girlfriend. Just in time for the holidays so you can convince your family to believe in St. Bernard over Christmas dinner or latkes or Chinese food.

Krystal Ball, Matt Karp, and Michael Brooks on Bernie and the 2020 Elections For the release of our latest print issue, "From Socialism to Populism and Back," we held a launch party at the Verso Books office in Brooklyn. We held a panel discussion at the party on Bernie Sanders and the 2020 elections featuring Krystal Ball, cohost of The Hill's Rising morning show; Matt Karp, historian and Jacobin contributing editor, whose article "Is This the Future Liberals Want?" appears in the new print issue; and Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks Show. Watch Rising here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLri3HDD8DQuWyMc7pSbVk0SZrAhA4j80 Read Matt Karp's article here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/10/future-liberals-want-matt-karp-populism-class-voting-democrats Watch and listen to The Michael Brooks Show here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh2UY1hxlMr4_7Az_iQ82HQ Buy the new issue here: https://jacobinmag.com/issue/from-socialism-to-populism-and-back

We've got Professor Matt Karp of Princeton on to discuss his new Catalyst article on "The Mass Politics of Antislavery," his first preview of a new book on the history of the 1850s that is in progress. Then we turn to the debate about Bernie, Warren, and the upper-middle class, starting with another article: "A Socialist Party in Our Time?" by Abbott and Guastella. Check out his book This Vast Southern Empire here.

We're joined by Matt Karp to discuss realigning the democratic coalition and Bernie Sanders' recent blockbuster rally in Queens. Check out Matt's piece in Jacobin here: here:https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/10/future-liberals-want-matt-karp-populism-class-voting-democrats

Matt Karp joins us for this week's A-Side to talk about the prospects, barriers, and pitfalls of a Bernie Sanders candidacy and what impact he's had on American politics since the 2016 Democratic Party primary race. Matt is an associate professor of history at Princeton and the author of many articles assessing the Bernie wave. Catch his recent thoughts in the latest Jacobin Magazine and in a forthcoming essay in The Nation. *** Become a member of the Dead Pundits Society to support this podcast and its political mission. You'll also get access to subscriber-only content and a partron-only forum. Sign up here: www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** ------------------------- Twitter: @deadpundits Facebook: facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Patreon: www.patreon.com/deadpundits YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl_Xg

Suzi talks to scholar activist Richard Walker about his new book, Pictures of a Gone City, an urban geography of the San Francisco Bay Area, America’s richest and fastest changing metropolis. Walker explains both the miracle of Silicon Valley — including the sometimes delusional ideas behind this new tech boom, and the heavy price being paid for it in terms of affordability, traffic paralysis, environmental disruption, as well as the political challenges and movements it has spawned.  We then speak to Jacobin’s Matt Karp, who evaluates the importance of the midterm elections and the politics of the Democratic Party, who went after suburban voters in this election. The Democrats are about to control the house, but Matt says their professional-class politics are a cul de sac, when what is needed is a political revolution driven by the needs and aspirations of the multiracial working class.

Here's a teaser of an excellent interview I did with historian and Jacobin writer Matt Karp. His Jacobin piece on the Democratic Party's victories went viral, so I made him talk to me. He shares his mixed emotions of relief and pessimism about the midterms Hear the rest on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/historian-matt-22789917

bonus: Matt talks about being an "insufferable" Civil War History nerd when he was in middle school. https://www.patreon.com/posts/22742080 Related bonus: Matt Karp, who will be joining Matt Christman for our live taping Civil War History-themed Katie Halper Show (date, TBD)talks to me about why the Dems are "handcuffing themselves before the battle". Matt talks about fascism, pseudo-woke gatekeepers, how and why Chapo appeals to the audience it does, and how the Left can maybe win. He also trashes some really stupid and counterproductive liberal hot takes like "economic anxiety doesn't influence people's politics," universal and class-based programs are only good for white people etc. He posits that for fascism to be here, we'd need a more robust Left, which we don't have at the moment. We also reminisce about the live Katie Halper Show taping with Chapo Trap House, which was the first time Matt met Felix in person, and which Matt still considers "one of the best" times of his life.

This episode is a live taping we did with PRINCETON historian Matt Karp. Matt talks about Frederick Douglas, the Civil War, the inspiration he takes from the periodic over throw of the ruling class, themistake the Dems make in courting woke Goldman Sachs, and the value of "Bernie Would have Won". Matt's analysis of the Kansas special election is especially relevant to Ossoff's loss.

Matt Karp is a professor of U.S. history at Princeton University, and the author of the recent book This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy. In this conversation, Matt tells me about the process of his politicization through various stages of academia, the roots of his interest in the Civil War era, and how the abolitionist project provides an important model for a popular revolutionary politics. 

"Well, I do declayah!" -- this week we're joined by Matt Karp, Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and frequent contributor to Jacobin Magazine, to talk about his new book, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholder and the legacy of slavery, race and class. We also talk about Matt's piece in The Nation on the legacy of Frederick Douglass and what kind of lessons we might learn from that era. So kill your slavemaster, grab a mint julep, take a seat on the porch, and tune in. Matt's articles in The Nation, "The Enduring Struggle": https://www.thenation.com/article/the-enduring-struggle Matt Karp, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Empire: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737259' DONATE to us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Deadpundits

American slaveholders before the Civil War oversaw an incredibly brutal economic system that generated enormous wealth for a tiny elite while denying enslaved Africans the most basic rights. But they also presided over American foreign policy, overseeing US territorial and economic expansion. As historian Matt Karp explains in This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy, they didn't just want an independent slaveholding south — they wanted to spread their empire of slavery to the entire United States and beyond. In November 2016, Karp spoke at the New School in New York City with historian Eric Foner, Dewitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and author of many books on the Civil War including Reconstruction and The Fiery Trial. Karp is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University and a contributing editor at Jacobin. Follow him on Twitter at @karpmj. Produced by Tanner Howard.

Love those boys: On our 50th episode, we recall our humble beginnings and listen to messages of love and devotion from friends of the show. The meat of the show is a sprawling interview with historian Matt Karp, about America's slaveholding empire, horrible Civil War movies like "Gods and Generals," the Sanders Truth Squad, and new Chapo staple, Caleb. Lastly, we plug our upcoming show at Caroline's on Wednesday for the third debate on 10/19, and announce a very special Election Night Live Show in NYC. Buy Tickets for Caroline's Show: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/chapo-trap-house-live-election-2016-debates/ Become a Grey Wolf on our 50th show: patreon.com/chapotraphouse Matt's book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01INP11O2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Matt Karp, who is an assistant professor of history at Princeton and a contributing editor of Jacobin, appears on the show to talk about a story he co-authored with Shawn Gude on the Sanders campaign, class politics of the campaign, and how—despite the dominant narrative—it is not driven by white male angst. Karp wrote a piece that relied upon a survey, which shows white Sanders supporters are not only more class conscious than white Clinton supporters but are also less racist than white Clinton supporters. We spend the interview breaking down this survey, discussing why it is important, and what Karp has learned from writing about the Sanders campaign for Jacobin.