Episode 276: A Roaring Twenties Redux?

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki discuss the parallels between the 1920s and our current moment.

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Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: 

• As “post-pandemic life” becomes imaginable, predictions of a second “Roaring Twenties” are ubiquitous. Niki referred to her article about the promise and limits of such comparisons for CNN. Natalia drew on historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz’ Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present. 

In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History:

• Natalia discussed Rosanna Xia’s Los Angeles Times article, “DDT’s Toxic Legacy Can Harm Granddaughters of Women Exposed, Study Shows”.
• Neil recommended Chloe Angyal’s Washington Post article, “Ballet Directors Talk About ‘Fitness.’ That’s Still Code for Rail-Thin Dancers” and her forthcoming book, Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers is Saving Ballet from Itself
• Niki shared her own CNN opinion piece, “History Shows We Ignore Tucker Carlson at Our Peril.”