Noah Michelson, the Voices Editorial Director and Executive Editor of Queer Voices at The Huffington Post, and the co-host of the Love + Sex Podcast returns to the show as he does every Thursday to help us close out the week with the stories making headlines over at Queer Voices. You can also follow Noah on twitter.
Since the beginning of this
year's presidential campaigns we have been hearing endlessly about the evils of
career politicians and the need to need to bring in outsiders in order to shake
things up and get the country back on track. However, according to historian Sean Wilentz, this not some new idea,
but rather has been a political rallying cry throughout American history, and
furthermore this idea is completely wrong. In his new book The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics, he argues that throughout our
country’s history, all of the really truly important and transformative moments
were actually completed by party politicians and not because of the influence
of outsiders. Sean joins me today on the
show to talk all about the book and the ways in which historians have
underestimated the contributions and talents of political insiders and
exaggerated the influence of activist outsiders.
Thursday, June 09, 2016
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