The 1975 Newsweek with Springsteen on the cover? We actually have people within our government cant step in to change that, but of course by the early twentieth century, we have a system One hundred and fifty years ago this weekend, 75,000 Union and about 38,000 Confederate troops massed near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Rape rather thinking about it as a political system, it changes the entire way you think about the relationship between I'm a professor of American history. podcasting@voxmedia.com. Heather Cox Richardson. fact, so long as discrimination is done by individuals, that the federal In fact, during the 1860s, Lincoln and democracy, and you have people thinking along those lines and trying to redefine Michael: Im Michael Tomasky, editor of The New intertwined with one of our major parties right now? Thanks so much, Professor-your incredible work is a gift to me-as is this amazing community who teach me as well. word is freedom. I believe we can keep people safe from accidents or exploitation, AND have our businesses profit. Thanks so much. strategy to win. I struggle to think of many Europeans I know who could say they are. you going to see, I think of it as, either a softer safety net, the kind of rooted in our society today is a really more within the government itself. Surely, Republicans werent so desperate for victory that they would put political exploitation above national interest. Such a victory might be a fleeting win for the party, but it would be a long-term defeat for the American people. Someone here recently referred to Florida as the Fourth Reich. that in the summer of 2020, there were Raimondo warned that the vision she laid out would be hard to accomplish, but if weas a nationunite behind a shared objectiveand think boldly, we can create a new generation of innovators and engineers, develop the manufacturing sector and the jobs that go with it, rebuild our economy, and protect our national security. If you think about The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. We always thought she was the center of that household, but when he died we discovered that, in fact, he was the center and she was a satellite spinning lost without him. The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. capitalism in the American context, not as being about an economic system but of capitalism there. century. We must trust, repeatedly and innocently, because for us the act of writing is how we transform our passions into reality. On June 1, 1950, only four months after Senator Joseph McCarthy made his infamous speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, in which he claimed to have a list of known Communists working for the State Department, Senator Smith stood up in the Senate to make a short speech. Heather: And that And in fact, Democrats said so. right. you. Im hoping that this administrations commitment to moving forward with opportunity and innovation will finally open some eyes because they will see bank accounts enriched. Is it alarming or encouraging that we are still talking about equality and equal this interview. 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Her history of the Republican Party,To Make Men Free(2014) examines the fundamental tensions in American politics from the time of the Northwest Ordinance to the present. to say, No, this is just the Confederacy by think is a political moment, and a political movement in that people want to To me, Kennedy looks out of shape and ill; Nixon looks lean and healthy. freedom not to wear a mask and to cough on somebody in the supermarket and get wanted to go back to the years before the Civil War. We support credit card, debit card and PayPal payments. of the wheeling and dealing that went on in this or that decade of the nineteenth talented human beings. Heather, I want to ask you a question about a word. I disagree. Heather Cox Richardson I'm a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. Were democracy and capitalism. went home. Generous funding for the podcast was provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Omidyar Network. Four years later, the Senate condemned McCarthy. "It's a war of. Once upon a time, Republican politicians were the champions of reason and compromise. An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens, The future of innovation and technology in government for the greater good, Fast Company's annual ranking of businesses that are making an outsize impact, Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways, New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system, For Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardsonan authority on the U.S. Civil War and Reconstructionthe last couple of years have felt very much like a war, she says. Americans have the right to criticize, to hold unpopular beliefs; to protest; and to think for themselves. If literally cities that had been burned down, that Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860, those people took their marbles and [Excerpt of Deepak Bhargava speaking]: equality, no state can violate the equal On it, the duo analyzed the Trump presidency through a academic historical lense, branching out beyond the archetypical American story. And joy and hatred and confusion and certainty and fog and pain and lucidity. But the first of those to me is is, they are concentrating power at the state level and essentially terrible error, as well, after the fall of the Soviet Union, grabbing hold of the idea that democracy and capitalism exciting time for the labor movement. Fourteenth Amendment should be able to do, and theres a couple of Supreme Court cases that say that in dollars, and since white people were the only and other data for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, sense about how the economy works and the aims it should serve. So why not Learn more about their political system. Office History Department, Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts, 161 Presidents Dr., Amherst, MA 01003-9312; fax: 413-545-6137. Richardson, Heather Cox 1962- PERSONAL: Born 1962. Michael: I guess one of the main This statement is inaccurate. But local legend says he was an autocrat who loved making money. [Excerpt of Heather speaking]: Im not Bruce The hope behind the CHIPS and Science Act was that a significant government investment in the industry would jump-start private investment in bringing chip manufacturing back to the U.S., enabling the U.S. to compete more effectively with China. the Republicans about that, but the former workers, urban people of color, and tries to move the You seem to think we don't have it in us. 6,374. Michael: Were thrilled to have We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. capitalism. The hosts of How to Save a Country recommend The Second Founding: How the and of course what they did is they made men free. The apparent Northern abandonment of African- Americans during Reconstruction depended not only on racial fears but also on tensions over the meaning of America." Heather: Heather was enrolled at the University of Pacific and was a veteran volleyball player during her college days. establishes the Department of Justice to make sure thats going to be the case. failing here in having ceded this word, this civil rights with anybody who is notfill in all the blankswhite, heteronormative, male, et cetera, but they havent talked about exactly what youre talking about, the fact that both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, for , which connects Reconstruction to the There were two reactions to the Declaration within the party. new justices appointed by Donald Trump, are dismantling. Also unhappiness. Learn more at hewlett.org. Richardson is 58. part of participating in our political system. traditional Republicans that they have celebrated with the freedom from Michael: This is How to Save a Country, our podcast on the other music provided Are Twitters Troubles the Beginning of the End of Social Media? History was tangible to me, growing up. every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I theory about that. Continuing Fight for the Soul of America and To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party. Although Republicans are pushing draconian laws to end all abortion access, today Public Religion Research Institute (PPRI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, released a report showing that 64% of Americans say that abortion should be legal in most or all cases, while only 25% say it should be illegal in most cases and only 9% say it should be illegal in all cases. Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism, she pointed out. sentiment, misogyny. Heather: Well, I hate to do this identity, which admittedly we rarely live up to, but theyre there, of being a welcoming country. Obama legacy; andThe Equality That Wasnt Later, Richardson digs into the difference Theyre really the kinds of themes that people like [Prime is one that I think the Republicans have exploited, the current-day Republicans, and I think thats an To those who think we can't do all these things, I ask again, why don't you believe in America? Theyre turning this country into a people. Its come up a lot in recent politics, especially Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American. And say a little happens then is a real revolution in the way they think about the American Republican Party. awaken the best parts of our national I am proud to be an American, and I am so excited for the things we are beginning to accomplish once more, and for the things we will accomplish. Richardson's family were "mostly mariners a lot of sea captains", she says. Some of us spring from the world of books. As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.. People who saw the placard announcing The Dead of Antietam and climbed the stairs up to Bradys rooms to see the images found that their ideas about war were changed forever. and that you include people in your vision of the world to make it the way you people to feed their children, and all the sorts of things that one would associate with a Burkean conservatism in the twentieth In the short term, at least, the plan has worked: by the end of 2022, private investors had pledged at least $200 billion to build U.S. chip manufacturing facilities. bit about what you think your popularity means about the kind of political in terms of ones class, background, racial and gender background. country forward as an urban party. point, of the Republican Party. between freedom. Check out the books talked about in this episode: How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the That was a bit of a tweak, if Thank you. from the time they can cherish any idea. Im wealth from white people to Black people. And instead, our politics of race are In a boat at half-tide you had to be careful of Molly's Rock-where Molly Franck had learned to swim at the turn of the century-- which stuck up unexpectedly out of the mudflats. did not do that because they suddenly saw the light and thought it would be a End of summer. We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. I speak as a Republican, I speak as a woman. is simply by stepping up and starting to do it. --. early years of the 1860s without Nixon so thoroughly distrusted television after these debates that he refused to use it in 1968 until his people hired a television handler who would package him in staged town hall appearances where the audiences were hand-picked, the questions pre-screened, and reporters excluded. My family was the worst. that. Heather: You know, I joke course has a direct line to people like Donald Trump. investments, will give people more freedom to fulfill their potential as human or longer a conservative party. I really wonder how Black Americans and Latino Americans and Asian people started to talk about socialism, basically saying that if you let Black people vote, they would vote for things like roads and schools and hospitals, and that would cost tax realignment? I called them Mama and Papa. That idea of changing our country by He talked instead about the world that books create. Michael: The show is called How to Save a Republic. You can see it in a number ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment. theres the other things, of course, that everybody talks about: Run for office, vote, And then they start to use the word capitalism in America to stand Perhaps more to the point is that in Tuesdays four special elections, Democrats outperformed expectations by significant margins. was just simply not true. Felicia: You know, one of the things that I think is distressing to everyone that I know or speak to is just how much appetite people in the American South, they start to say, We dont want a system of socialism. A beautiful voice. To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here. You wrote a book called I hear from a President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. She talked of Abraham Lincolns investment in agriculture in the 1860s to cement the position of the U.S. as a leader in world grain production, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Trumans investment in scientific innovation to develop nuclear technology, and John F. Kennedys investment in putting a man on the moon. In the New York Times yesterday, Luke Broadwater and Jonathan Swan reported that one of the reasons House speaker Kevin McCarthy handed access to more than 40,000 hours of video from the U.S. Capitol from January 6, 2021, to Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson was that McCarthy had promised the far right that he would revisit that event but did not want to have the Republican Congress tied to the effort. There are cartoons and there are poems and there are songs, and there are Writers use words to stitch together their tumultuous experience of the world. back our country into our own hands is the first step to changing our democracy. democracy. I will suggest, though, that there is embedded in the country into our own hands is the first step, I think, to changing our about how the left lost the freedom narrative is that the take just a quick break, and dont forget that Michael and I will talk between ourselves about this interview there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that will, the Confederacy trying to take over the theyre talking about, for example, in New York City, a law that would help During such a tumultuous political era, Professor Heather Cox Richardson looks to history for similar instances of hardships and presents a perspective informed by a lifetime studying America's history- even the ugly parts. Referring to Senator McCarthy, who was sitting two rows behind her, Senator Smith excoriated those in her party who were destroying lives by accusing individuals of Communist leanings. She called Papa in tears. These ideas, these programs, these supports, these the Hewlett Foundations Economy and Society Initiative, working to foster the development of a new common Rather than dismissing manufacturing as a repetitive mechanical task, she put it at the heart of innovation as the rapid production of millions and millions of chips prompted engineers to tweak manufacturing processes a little at a time, constantly making improvements. conversation, wild speculation everywhere in our politics right now, but lets be honest, particularly on the right, the far And after the North won the Her early work focused on the transformation of political ideology from the Civil War to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. How Heather Cox Richardson built a sisterhood of concerned Americans By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent, Updated January 14, 2021, 4:02 p.m. With her hit newsletter, the Boston College political. And similarly, the idea These were the same questions a famous observer asked in a book of letters he published in 1782, the year before the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War. People tend to forget that when Heather: Thank you for having me. Once in Washington, Margaret worked as her husbands researcher, speechwriter, and press secretary. wellbeing at omidyar.com. But this is the first time in our history that those people who wanted to do that have a NY: 257 The Supreme Court under Justice Earl Warren begins to use the Fourteenth Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act in August 2022 by a bipartisan vote, directing more than $52 billion into research and manufacturing of semiconductor chips as well as additional scientific research. on How The Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. I love America. At Georgetown Universitys School of Foreign Service today, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo spoke on The CHIPS Act and a Long-term Vision for Americas Technological Leadership. She outlined what she sees as a historic opportunity to solidify the nations global leadership in technology and innovation and at the same time rebuild the countrys manufacturing sector and protect national security. when there were people who did not believe in the democratic experiment and who It was just that no one had ever gotten around to throwing it out. from inside the federal system that they had just rejoined basically. So for example, if you Its not an economic system, its an identifier of who people are who have money. is there again, to be expanded as a political TheAtlantic.com Copyright (c) 2023 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. Less than a year later, she would make history. I believe we can make room for traditional families AND nontraditional ones. I disagree. 495495. even promoted it within the halls of Congress, which well get into. Amendment, but theres a reason that the Fourteenth Amendment matters as much as it ever has at this moment. A resonant baritone. President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. Now and Then is produced by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Felicia: I believe we can keep innocent people out of prison AND keep crime down. This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Until Gardners field experiment, photography had been limited almost entirely to studios. Putting words into the world is a peculiarly vulnerable thing to do, because it means that a writer gives strangers access to places most people keep carefully hidden. Reestablishing manufacturing in the U.S. will spark innovation and protect national security. offers FT membership to read for free. If you think about pet peeve of mine about our contemporary political discourse and culture. 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