On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Jessica Chiriboga interviews New York Times best-selling author, Professor Daniel Ziblatt to discuss how to spot the signs of a dying democracy and how American democracy might be salvaged.
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On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Arya Barkesseh interviews Dr. Jeremi Suri, who argues that opposition to the union army’s Civil War victory started almost immediately after the war ended, preventing Lincoln’s vision of a genuinely united country from actually taking root.
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Producer Oliver Wang interviews Former Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States (Obama Administration), Ben Rhodes to discover who is to blame for the global fall of democracy and how we might return to a truly democratic identity.
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Media misremembers the Atlantic pirates as mere agents of chaos. But historians now believe that pirates lived by a strict moral code that put them in opposition to imperialism and slavery. UnTextbooked producer Ming-Wei Cyprien Fasquelle interviews Marcus Rediker on his book Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in The Golden Age.
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