“I have been accused of having obstructed the war. I admit it. I abhor war. I would oppose the war if I stood alone. I believe in free speech, in war as well as in peace.” So said Eugene Debs on September 12th, 1918 to members of a jury tasked with deciding whether he had, as prosecutors argued, during a speech given a few weeks earlier to a crowd of socialists attempted “to promote insubordination [in the military]” and “propagate obstruction to the [military] draft.” Debs - a socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of, among many leftist groups, the Socialist Party of America - would be convicted of and handed a lengthy prison sentence for violating the Espionage Act, pushed through Congress the year prior by former President Woodrow Wilson - just after the United States entered into the war in Europe.Upon signing the Act - which made criminal dissent against the war - into law, Wilson, at once, began to use it to go after opposition to the establishment - communists, socialists, trade unionists - and continued to do so even after the war had ended.This is just one of the many subjects of American Midnight, journalist and historian Adam Hochschild's recent book, in which he examines a period during which the United States saw a swell of patriotic frenzy and political repression that makes McCarthyism look almost subtle by comparison - 1917-21.On this episode of “Buried Treasure,” we sit down with Hochschild to look back on this all too often unremembered period that gave birth to the Espionage Act - some of the “darkest years of the republic” in which the government and political establishment weren’t at all opposed to blatantly illiberal approaches to achieving their desired outcomes.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
What happened to this podcast???
I've listened to your podcast for years. What you've done for investigative reporting podcasting is singular in its quality. you will be sooo missed.
You'll be missed. Come back soon.
Who gives a shit what Tucker Carlson thinks about the JFK assassination???? Why give Fox News any oxygen??
I love the way media figures like Isakoff try to add depth and dimensionality to MTG. If you try this, then you fail to understand NW Georgia white Christian evangelical voters. They are generally undereducated, and very marginal workers of lower skill compared to more vibrant areas like NYC. They really are dumbasses. Call it for what it is. MTG is this way naturally, it’s no act. American exceptionalism is white redneck racism, period.
Trust me trump will not be indicted and will never face justice. Our system is way too corrupted by money. It’s ridiculous.
asshole? you be the judge as a high school senior I spent afternoons with my friends watching the Watergate hearings. Big drama brings desire to share with friends. What's more dramatic than watching democracy on trial?
Dang. Isikoff gets it wrong, once again. SMH. It wasn't just Saber rattling, Putin did invade/attack Ukraine 2/24/22. Props to Victoria and Dan for getting it right. Perhaps if Mike didn't talk so much & listened to his guests and co hosts more, he'd be more well informed & less likely to make poor predictions that do not age well.
Bassetti has to turn her freaking radio off. Everyone can hear when she unmutes herself. I thought it would be just one episode but its continued on. So unprofessional and annoying.
my wife and I used to have respect for you guys, but one hour 30 seconds and not one mention of Assange. you should be flushed like the turd I just took
This guy is a terrible interview. Standard trash with zero interesting or genuine to say. Not worthy of this podcast.
Wow, Raffensberger talks like a real political gaslighter.
smears
Russia hoax ahoy
Stupid American ideas of what other nations should do in Afghanistan.
Bender's stop and start speaking style makes it hard to follow him.
It is a black page on united state history book! Unfortunatley Your black pages are rising!
How could you abonden afghan people and put them on dirty hands of taliban?
Normally I find Isikoff to be perceptive and well spoken, bit with regard to the mass murder I Georgia, I'll try to assume that he's just blind with privilege and not a racist in saying that there's nothing to indicate that it was a hate crime, and that there's no need to label it a hate crime because murder is murder, and the sentence will be just as harsh. Really? Isikoff taking the word of the killer is just as bad as the police spokesperson who said the the killer was just having a bad day! Would Isikoff say the same if instead of Asian spas, the killings were all at Jewish synagogues? Instead of a couple getting a couples massage, it was a couple praying? and instead of 6 Asian women killed, it was 6 male Rabbis? The killer would say the same that it was not a Jewish thing, but rather he wanted to kill temptation from any and all religions. Would Isikoff say that there's no need to say it's a hate crime then?
any podcast these 2 do is something i subscribe to!