My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Since 2006, bringing historical context to the politics of today. TV pundits discuss politics in a vacuum. Cable news tells you everything is 'breaking news' but in most cases, events have long roots in history. In this podcast, we smash and bash the politics of today with a healthy dose of history
- Website
- https://myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com
- Description
- Today's political debates, particularly on cable news, talk radio and blog comments can be limiting. In this podcast, Bruce Carlson applies as much history as possible to the politics of today.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-28 20:47
- last episode published
- 2025-03-25 19:13
- publication frequency
- 9.83 days
- Contributors
- Bruce Carlson
- Author Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 697
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- Categories
- Society & Culture National News History Government & Organizations
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Episodes
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| 2025-03-25 |
NOW ON THE PATREON: CHESTER ARTHUR, PART THREE - "I WILL ACCEPT!" That's right - sign up for Patreon for our most recent episode about the 21st President, Chester Alan Arthur. In this episode, the establishment takes on the establishment, but just a little. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho... |
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| 2025-03-25 | Federal judges and Presidents have clashed in the past. It's rarely been cheery. As executive power exists only within the frame of law, this should be expected. There are freak events where Presidents have ignored judicial orders, but it is not the ro... |
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| 2025-03-18 | Samuel Tilden won the popular vote but lost the Presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes in the disputed electoral college. That is is his footnote in history. He's also known for taking down Boss Tweed. Though his actual role is disputed by people at the tim... |
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| 2025-03-17 |
THEODORE ROOSEVELT ON PEACE, There is No Mary Todd Lincoln and Other Stories A bit from TR on making peace, why we should drop the Mary Todd and other stories. Ad Free for Airwave History subscribers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices |
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| 2025-03-05 | What does it mean to be a Stalwart? In history, it's just a name for political machine pros seeking jobs and being corrupt. But it was more. While telling how Chester Arthur became the nation's most famous fired civil servant, we explain politics in ... |
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| 2025-03-05 | It was clunky, and a little Office Space-like. And it cut federal jobs. But then-Vice President Al Gore's "REGO" program was different in many ways from "DOGE" -The 1993 program was bipartisan, considered [cuts were identified, then made, in that orde... |
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| 2025-02-25 | A bit about what we've got cooking at Patreon, including the first of three parts of our series on the 21st President. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices |
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| 2025-02-25 | Bruce is on a tear being told that given the norm-breaking going on there is no place for history. Nothing can be farther from the truth. He outlines why, instead of history not being useful, it's actually quick history (comparing say Trump to Obama) ... |
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| 2025-02-17 | From the man who answered T.R.'s phone and maybe saved his life, to the secret "Sphinx" around Woodrow Wilson, to Coolidge's surprise enforcer. We look at all sorts of Presidential assistants and aides, both official ones and non-official ones. Learn m... |
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| 2025-02-14 |
Now on the Patreon: Franklin Roosevelt Takes on Jimmy Walker Now on the Patreon: Franklin Roosevelt Takes on Jimmy Walker In the sweltering summer of 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt found himself ensnared in a political web spun by the most notorious machine in New York politics—Tammany Hall. As governor of New... |
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