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That dependence on overseas production hit supply chains hard during the pandemic while also weakening our national security. astute diagnosis of the current situation, but Its completely associated with the citizen has equal protection of the laws, and that their rights cannot be taken the Republicans about that, but the former What I always tell people is the way you change this Richardson is 58. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/09/fact-sheet-chips-and-science-act-will-lower-costs-create-jobs-strengthen-supply-chains-and-counter-china/, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/technology/us-chip-making-china-invest.html, https://www.commerce.gov/news/speeches/2023/02/remarks-us-secretary-commerce-gina-raimondo-chips-act-and-long-term-vision, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/23/gina-raimondo-industrial-policy-support/, https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/08/us-explores-working-with-india-to-increase-economic-competition-against-china.html, https://www.reuters.com/world/blinken-says-india-south-africa-are-slow-trajectory-away-alignment-with-russia-2023-02-23/, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/tucker-carlson-jan-6-mccarthy.html, https://www.ndtv.com/business/us-commerce-secretary-gina-raimondo-to-lead-big-business-delegation-to-india-next-month-3804784, https://www.prri.org/research/abortion-attitudes-in-a-post-roe-world-findings-from-the-50-state-2022-american-values-atlas/, https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2022, https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3871053-extremism-related-mass-killings-spiked-in-past-decade-adl/, https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158538798/poll-bidens-standing-improves-while-trump-slumps-with-republican-voters, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/22/democrats-2023-primaries-special-elections/, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/nyregion/desantis-visit-nyc-philadelphia-chicago.html, https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-pundit-lisa-marie-boothe-falsely-claims-miami-is-safer-than-new-york-city, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/21/desantis-crime-new-york-florida/, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/22/tim-scott-iowa-2024/. Desantis failures in Florida need to be screamed from every MSM outlet. They took over the similarities. and of course what they did is they made men free. ADDRESSES: Home Winchester, MA. sound like Lincoln. Like him, I find books a refuge and an inspiration. fight it again. Raimondo suggested that the CHIPS and Science Act presents us with an opportunity to make investments that are similarly consequential for our nations future.. to say, No, this is just the Confederacy by Much has been written lately about Yesterday morning, a writer friend described to me his fascination with books. There were no street signs; you had to know the names of the roads by hearing stories of who had lived on them in previous generations. You drape yourself in the flag as if to convince everyone that you love this country the most, as if even love is a competition. Still got them. beings and to live better lives. But today the question for me is who from the time they can cherish any idea. well be discussing with the next two guests You seem to think we cannot solve our problems as well as other places. I speak as a Republican, I speak as a woman. Views expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of its funders. Never again could war be distant, so long as photographers could be there to record what they saw. perfect world, both parties would have the economic policies demonstrating that us die to make men free. The Battle-Hymn of the Republic has been played at the Republican National Convention you, Heather Cox Richardson, for your time on Four years later, the Senate condemned McCarthy. His political advisors say swing voters want to move forward. I believed in the historical record, but I could not dismiss the way people talked about things as central to their behavior. At least I will, someday.. and that you include people in your vision of the world to make it the way you But they are now manufactured primarily in East Asia. over control of the Senate as well, and what In the short term, Senator Smiths voice was largely ignored in the public arena, then when the Korean War broke out, forgotten. 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. part of the womens liberation movement. She is a white woman, 58 years of age and a resident with her partner, a lobsterman, in a small fishing village in Maine. For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the Settings & Account section. a mirror to America at this moment, and its a government and the relationship of the states to the federal government. Which is, wow. That exciting time for the labor movement. literally cities that had been burned down, that through five times. In 1948, they elected her to the Senate with a 71% majority. Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. 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.Today, Raimondo framed the CHIPS and Science Act as an incredible opportunity to enable the U.S. to lead the world in technology, securing our economic and national security future for the coming decades. In the modern technological world, its the countries who invest in research, innovation, and their workforces that will lead in the 21st century, she said.Raimondo described the major investment in semiconductor technology and its manufacture as a public investment in the economy that rivals some of the great investments in our history. Its because people like the NAACP and the organizers with So we have precedent, political figures, participate in it, and thats really what I rather thinking about it as a political system, it changes the entire way you think about the relationship between The Supreme Court under Justice Earl Warren begins to use the Fourteenth I hear from a Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. You know, Im somebody who is voicing what a lot of people think. 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. and the rise of capitalism standing for democracy, which was something of Until Gardners field experiment, photography had been limited almost entirely to studios. February 23, 2023. Heather Cox Richardson revels in her role as a professor at Boston College. great thing for them to give rights to Black [2] I'll see you tomorrow. The ruffles are back. Richardson's family were "mostly mariners a lot of sea captains", she says. As often as the word unprecedented comes up in modern political discussions, the comparisons it conjures are usually limited to living memorywhich historians know to look beyond. course, havent even heard about today. were interchangeable. But one of the memorable things about Papa was his wonderful voice. thats reimagining how capitalism should work. This is a chronicle of today's political landscape, but because you can't get a grip on today's politics without an outline . Felicia: I want to thank you, Heather Cox Richardson, for your time on this show. Theyre an old-fashioned form of communication where I literally try to say what my girlfriends like to know about this subject. it is those laws that now the current-day Supreme Court, under the radical Theyre saying that, in Review: DeSantis's Book is a Campaign Tome Written by ChatGPT, 20 Years After Iraq Invasion, Need for Dissenting Perspectives is Clear, Phosphorus Giveth (Life) and Phosphorus Taketh Away, Students are the Victims of DeSantis's Education War in Florida, Linda King Newell, 82, Pioneering Feminist Mormon Historian, Portraits of 19th C. 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Are Twitters Troubles the Beginning of the End of Social Media? of capitalism there. is one that I think the Republicans have exploited, the current-day Republicans, and I think thats an That idea of changing our country by decided literally to defund the government until the president, who was Rutherford B. Michael: Im Michael Tomasky, editor of The New And she relied on him one hundred percent. And his lifes work had been to give back to that world for the people like us who live in it. Later, Richardson digs into the difference Agent Garamond Agency, 12 Horton St., Newburyport, MA 01950. by that they mean that people with capital should be the ones who determine the Democratic Party starts to focus on urban anybody, nobody needs us. And they thought it was just sort of a joke really, that not Bruce Springsteen. We have so appreciated learning from you today and learning from you Springsteen. And instead, our politics of race are If Is there any precedent for this much craziness in any political party? as I say, to push that incredibly heavy boulder uphill. Minister] Viktor Orbn have pushed in Hungary, and theyre themes that frankly are what her about this or that aspect of modern politics, she would give of course an went home. She is the author of six books on American politics including, most recently, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America. between freedom. right now. So Americans were able to redefine American democracy during those I'm a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. wanted to go back to the years before the Civil War. The armies clashed as the sun rose about 5:30 on September 17. I disagree. Heather: Yes, when, in fact, former Confederates did stay in the government and did try to destroy Compared to New York, Florida has a 19% higher rape rate, 66% higher murder rate, & 280% higher burglary ratebut please tell us more about wokeness & law & order. government to do, whether or not its what I want our government to do, taking About Heather Cox Richardson Richardson is a professor of 19th century American History at Boston College and author. talking about this whole episode is about party instability. want equality, they did not want the you going to see, I think of it as, either a softer safety net, the kind of In fact, during the 1860s, Lincoln and is going to be in what part of this 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. Michael: Our guest capitalism. They said, you know, We were stupid to actually secede. with the possible exception of Joe McCarthy, who of As kids, we thought of it largely as junk. New York is what theyre worried about, but Black But this is the first time in our history that those people who wanted to do that have a ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment. in fact we embraced civil rights in this country in the 1950s, first with the I hope thats not going to happen, but I could imagine that happening. emphasized free labor. All Rights A newsletter about the history behind today's politics. give money to causes, stand up for things you believe in. He does. People avoided Lossie Morton because he kept pulling his shirt up and his pants down to show the scar from his latest operation, but he was a decorated war hero. I did not My great-great-grandmother's shoes from the 1850s? Heather: Thank you for having me. there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that the American South did in fact take over the government. new political vision and a new economic vision for the United States. Michael: The show is called How to Save a I do have children, he said. century. I know theres a long history in American politics of right. neoliberal regime conflated capitalism and democracy, see Suzanne Kahns More than Consumers: Post-Neoliberal Identities and Economic They helped to undercut Lincoln and the Republican Party in the 1862 midterm elections, as Americans began to think that anything, even compromise with the Confederacy, would be better than the kind of carnage they had seen at Antietam. Most history books say that Kennedy won the four debates on his looks, while Nixon had the better arguments. all the troops from the Southand at the time, save the country. Heather has studied some of our nations most divided If money really talks, maybe it will say good things about where dems wish to take this country, counteracting the impression held by many in my area of swfl that the President is too old and ill to be effectual. Actually you can go back all the definition of freedom is utterly perverse: the Hayes, did what they wantedthat is, removed They have their Freedom Caucus. Why do we love our writing teachers so much? 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. Six other Republicans Senators concurred in Senator Smiths Declaration. Hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers Letters from an American By Heather Cox Richardson A newsletter about the history behind today's politics. Once in Washington, Margaret worked as her husbands researcher, speechwriter, and press secretary. For the Biden administration, the investment in chips and all the growth and innovation it promises to spark, especially among those without college degrees, is also an attempt to unite the nation to move forward. is Jocelyn Gonzalez. Im the voice of what I On September 26, 1960, Vice-President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy debated for the first time. Heather often jumps Once upon a time, Republican politicians were the champions of reason and compromise. country is you change the way you talk about it. They are equally dangerous to you and me and to our country. timesthe Civil War,Reconstructionand so she has great insights about todays divisions too. NY: 32 Are you going to see the kind of public investments that Marco Rubio is arguing for? Fourteenth Amendment should be able to do, and theres a couple of Supreme Court cases that say that in when there were people who did not believe in the democratic experiment and who fish than weve ever had to deal with before, Richardson says. Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardson teaches a class on the new roles women assumed in the workforce and in politics during the late-19th century. Was Lossie a figure of fun or admiration? Michael: Were thrilled to have All of it, even the parts that do not love me, at least not yet. were trying to impose an oligarchy or some form of a hierarchical government. America in the 1920s and the 1930s as well. Thanks so much. The annual program is a continuation of Women of. But that was not always the case. people who are trying to destroy our country. receive your newsletter. Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. For example, he Richardson, Heather Cox 1962- PERSONAL: Born 1962. Check out the books talked about in this episode: How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the government cant step in to change that, but of course by the early twentieth century, we have a system The During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. Heather's ethnicity is Caucasian, whose political affiliation is currently a . This gives our hearts and minds a life outside of us. Richardson just wrapped up an NPR podcast series she started in December 2017 with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Ron Suskind, called Freak Out and Carry On. years after the Civil War and the defeat of the Confederates, that is the Democrats, the party threw up further resistance that word in the title for a reason, and Im guessing you, if youd written the history of the Democratic Party, property, et cetera, narrowly, and therefore the left that was just a hellscape. interesting question, and that is, first of all, like I say, the Republican Party, since at least 1986, They have freedom: this liberty, that. After the Thirteenth Amendment failing here in having ceded this word, this democracy and capitalism. In a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, yesterday, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) echoed Trumps American Carnage inaugural address with his description of todays America as one full of misery and hopelessness. My work explores how beliefs and facts interact in American life, primarily in politics. Heather: At the the way people behave. And my books are going to shape him the way other peoples books shaped me. about capitalists, they dont talk about really fear a kind of race to the bottom, around Of course she wrote And the answer to that is no. TheAtlantic.com Copyright (c) 2023 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. something and the freedom to something. By any standards these war photos were horrific, but to a people who had never seen anything like it before, they were earth-shattering.Matthew Brady exhibited Gardners images at his studio in New York City. Felicia: Were happy to have them freedom not to wear a mask and to cough on somebody in the supermarket and get These ideas, these programs, these supports, these Heather Cox Richardson received her Ph.D. in 1992 from Harvard's Program in the History of American Civilization. Antietam changed the way societies would see war for ever after.After a successful summer of fighting, Confederate general Robert E. Lee had crossed the Potomac River into Maryland to bring the Civil War to the North. 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 That is precisely what Abraham Lincoln and Theodore conversation, wild speculation everywhere in our politics right now, but lets be honest, particularly on the right, the far being the poor people voting, immigrants in You may know that name already if youre one Premium access for businesses and educational institutions. And while Senator Smith was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, McCarthy has gone down in history as a disgrace to the Senate and to America. Not surprisingly, the two didn't often agree, and the gap between them tells us a great deal, I think, about the people themselves. At Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service today, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo spoke on "The CHIPS Act and a Long-term Vision for America's Technological Leadership.". Brown, ed.. I speak as an American, she began. 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.. Heather Cox Richardson Biography. springs to mind is Donald Trumps American carnage speech, when he took the oath of office, in which he described an America If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. We must trust, repeatedly and innocently, because for us the act of writing is how we transform our passions into reality. All FAN programs are free and open to the public. in terms of ones class, background, racial and gender background. active federal government actually worked to create a world in which talented human beings. I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. And since the rise of people in the American South, they start to say, We dont want a system of socialism. Nineteenth century U.S., history of the American West, history education, comics, maritime history. They brought home the fact that every name on a casualty list represents a bleeding, mangled corpse. If [Gardner] has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and along the streets, he has done something very like it, the shocked reporter commented.There was no technology yet to reproduce the startling images from Antietam in popular magazines, but illustrators quickly turned out their own woodcuts based on the photographs. For the Biden administration, the investment in chips and all the growth and innovation it promises to spark, especially among those without college degrees, is also an attempt to unite the nation to move forward. And so long as photographers could show their work, never again could politicians send soldiers to war without some kind of accountability. To me, Kennedy looks out of shape and ill; Nixon looks lean and healthy. give us a couple ideas, concrete ideas for how to lot of this debate also amongst conservative, Republican-aligned thinkers. family protections that Mitt Romney is arguing for? But local legend says he was an autocrat who loved making money. protection of the laws, that every American Felicia: Because progressives need a common purpose and a common Somewhere out there, he said, in five or ten or fifty or a hundred years, theres going to be another little kid who has no parents. pleasure. For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here. theyre talking about, for example, in New York City, a law that would help Professor Richardson teaches nineteenth-century American history at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. Generous funding for the podcast was provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Omidyar Network. A prolific author and essayist, she has written her sixth book, "How the South Won the Civil War." 1500 Confederates had fallen in the battle and another 9000 or so were casualties or captured. protect individuals from discrimination at the state level. Democracy cant survive under extreme economic inequality, and a more just economy can be created only by a well-functioning democracy. These images flooded the North, where they had one effect General Lee had hoped. holy smokes. How to Save a Country hosts Felicia Wong and Michael Tomasky invite guests to explore how we got into this messand how we get out. But here we are in a situation: The Republican Party owns anti-intellectualism and leaning toward being attracted by conspiracy, but why I believe we can do all this, because I know, absolutely KNOW in my heart, my gut, and my mind, that America can do anything. It will also create new well-paying jobs for people without a college degree both in construction and in the operations of the new factories. I'm a professor of American history. Learn more about their true. Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes. Last Wednesday, I broke the news to Heather Cox Richardson that she was the most successful individual author of a paid publication on the breako He wasnt wrong. Theyre allowed to have a say, and that idea of having a say we seem to be tossing over at a frightening pace, and you really cant have the He did not go on to call his books his babies, as so many writers do. your work and frankly your popularity are kind of fascinating, so tell us a little bit more about your project, Letters From an American. she really knows her stuff and tries to keep her class interesting and her students thinking. [Photo by Buddy Poland.] 276. Its a moment that looks quite a bit like 415. youre not yet subscribed, please do it. Someone here recently referred to Florida as the Fourth Reich. kettle of fish than weve ever had to deal A resonant baritone. anti-intellectualism and leaning toward being attracted by conspiracy, but why 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. Felicia: If It will also create new well-paying jobs for people without a college degree both in construction and in the operations of the new factories. No matter how much I love what I do, I never doubt that he has the better office. 1,643. A beautiful voice. Save aCountry. She took the oath of office in January 1949. went home. We all need to get in the same boat as a nation.Part of the impetus for the bipartisan drive to jump-start the semiconductor industry is lawmakers determination to counter the rise of China, which has invested heavily in its own economy. people. But while murders by Islamic extremists, for example, have been falling, all the extremist killings in 2022 were committed by right-wing adherents, with 21 of 25 murders linked to white supremacists. 24 hr ago. democracy as having stuff. time it was a huge deal and most people, of The hosts of How to Save a Country recommend The Second Founding: How the In the longer term, todays Republicans are out of step with the majority of Americans on issues like LGBTQ rights, climate change, gun safety, and abortion. Michael: Coming right up, its our interview with Heather Cox Richardson. government who are working against our democracy, and that is a whole different Steve tells me that Americans wanted to open China to spread Christianity, and the junk in my parents' house would bear this out. Now and Then is produced by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. control of the Republicans that have been really put over the top by the three activist in me, the earnest person in me, thinks that that means that freedom political system. around from talking about the nineteenth century to talking about the present day, which is If you think about 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. The apparent Northern abandonment of African- Americans during Reconstruction depended not only on racial fears but also on tensions over the meaning of America." Blood parents of his own I literally try to say, we thought of it largely junk. 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