This is Democracy

Jeremi and Zachary speak with Sarah Adler Hartman, CEO of The Texas Tribune, about why journalism is essential to democracy and how nonprofit newsrooms can sustain state and local reporting.

This week, Zachary and Jeremi meet with Yale historian David Sorkin discussing his book, The Emancipationists: 19th Century Jews’ Campaign for Citizenship.

David Sorkin is the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840, Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries, and, most recently, The Emancipationists: Nineteenth-Century Jews’ Campaign for Citizenship.

Zachary and Jeremi are back this week to speak with University of Washington professor Daniel Bessner about his essay collection Imperialist Realism. They discuss shifting public attitudes across age cohorts, limits of U.S. power in East Asia and changing warfare, and connect these themes to the approaching 25th anniversary of 9/11 and the dashed hopes of the Global War on Terror.

Jeremi and Zachary return from summer break to discuss local journalism. Zachary draws from his experience working as a local reporter in Milwaukee over the summer to highlight the challenges that small, local stations and publications face in reaching wide audiences today, and what opportunities history may teach us to find a path forward.