On this episode of Start Making Sense, what it means to have hope, and why the bromance between Trump and the world’s richest man cannot last.
Elon Musk embraces Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds on October 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
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Hope does not mean saying ‘this is not bad,’ Rebecca Solnit argues; it just means we will not give up—because we know that what we do matters, and we also know we’ve been surprised by good things we never expected.
Also: The bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump cannot last – historian David Nasaw will explain why.
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Hope does not mean saying “this is not bad,” Rebecca Solnit argues; it just means we will not give up, because we know that what we do matters, and we also know we’ve been surprised by good things we never expected.
Also on this episode of Start Making Sense: The bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump cannot last—historian David Nasaw explains why.
Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.
On this episode of American Prestige, we speak with Lydia Walker, historian at Ohio State University, about her book States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization. The group discusses narratives of decolonization that Lydia wanted to challenge before exploring the “transnational advocacy network” and non-state actors she features in the book like Naga nationalist leader Angami Zapu Phizo, Indian politician Jayaprakash Narayan, anti-apartheid minister Michael Scott, the latter two’s World Peace Brigade and “anti-Algiers” initiative, and more.
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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.