Martin Di Caro
@martindicaro.bsky.social
Host of History As It Happens podcast www.historyasithappens.com
Is Zionism a form of ethnic nationalism? history-as-it-happens.simplecast.com/episodes/blo...
Blood and Soil: What is Ethnic Nationalism? | History As It Happens
The world is aflame with endless wars and racial strife. Some societies are tearing themselves apart as mass migration fuels a nationalist backlash. Since the nineteenth century, ethnic nationalism ha...
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After a brief moment of light following the ouster of Omar al-Bashir, Sudan is being devoured again by civil war, genocide, rape, displacement, and hunger. Alex de Waal on a country that can't escape its history: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/sudans-unrel...
History As It Happens: Sudan's Unrelenting Agony
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Sudan cannot escape its history. Today's civil war flows from past problems while presenting the world new horrors to witness. w/ Alex de Waal: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/sudans-unrel...
History As It Happens: Sudan's Unrelenting Agony
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Is the U.S. dismantling the global non-proliferation order. historyasithappens.libsyn.com/saudi-nukes-...
History As It Happens: Saudi Nukes (Bonus)
to listen to the entire 17-minute episode (or preview 7 minutes). The precarious international consensus on nuclear non-proliferation is cracking. The Trump administration announced a civilian nuclear...
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History As It Happens: Joseph Ellis' "Tragic Side"
Become a for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. Was it possible for the leaders of the new American republic to end slavery entirely? Was the violent dispossession of Native peoples ...
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History As It Happens: Joseph Ellis' "Tragic Side"
Become a for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. Was it possible for the leaders of the new American republic to end slavery entirely? Was the violent dispossession of Native peoples ...
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Why didn't the leaders of the new American republic end slavery? Joseph Ellis tries to answer this question in his new book: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/joseph-ellis...
History As It Happens: Joseph Ellis' "Tragic Side"
Become a for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. Was it possible for the leaders of the new American republic to end slavery entirely? Was the violent dispossession of Native peoples ...
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Hello, Congress? Anyone home? w/ @KornbergMaya: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/congress-sli...
History As It Happens: Congress' Slide Into Irrelevance
for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. Is Congress irreparably broken or temporarily stuck as it fails to act as a co-equal branch of government willing to check a rogue executive? An...
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Ida B. Wells, Eugene Debs, Walter Reuther, Martin Luther King — all demanded the country live up to its egalitarian ideals. Historian Michael Kazin on liberal patriotism: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/liberal-patr...
History As It Happens: Liberal Patriotism
The podcast needs your support. for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. Have too many liberals and leftists given up on patriotism? Have they forgotten the tradition of social movemen...
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Historian Michael Kazin on the necessity of the left rediscovering a healthy, skeptical patriotism. Full episode: https://historyasithappens.libsyn.com/liberal-patriotism
Historian Michael Kazin says throughout U.S. history, liberals, radicals, and socialists have fought for a more perfect union based on American ideals. He says some on the left today have forgotten this. Full episode link below: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/liberal-patr...
With Russia's invasion of Ukraine well into its fifth year and still no diplomatic resolution in sight, I asked Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Inst. whether the war's origins, contested as they are, point to a possible way out. historyasithappens.libsyn.com/origins-of-a...
History As It Happens: Origins of a Forever War
for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. Now well into its fifth year, Russia's invasion of Ukraine appears to be a stalemate on the ground while the combatants seek a decisive edge in ...
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Liberals and socialists have long fought for a more perfect union in social movements spanning U.S. history. @mkazin on liberal patriotism: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/liberal-patr...
History As It Happens: Liberal Patriotism
The podcast needs your support. for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. Have too many liberals and leftists given up on patriotism? Have they forgotten the tradition of social movemen...
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'Moby-Dick' centers on tyrant Ahab's lunatic pursuit of the whale. The first mate Starbuck is the law-abiding democrat, attempting to stop the Pequod's destruction. Moby-Dick as a meditation on democracy: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/moby-dick-an...
History As It Happens: Moby-Dick and Democracy
for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby-Dick has something to teach us about democracy, citizenship, and the rule of law. A flop when published ...
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While the rest of the Pequod's crew is seduced by Ahab, Starbuck stands alone in his sanity, a democrat who tried to resist tyranny. Michael Kimmage on Citizen Starbuck and the endless allegories of Moby-Dick: https://historyasithappens.libsyn.com/moby-dick-and-democracy
The War Powers Act does not allow the president to wage war whenever he wishes, says international legal scholar Adil Haque: Listen at this gift link: historyasithappens.supercast.com/subscriber_v...
History As It Happens – Bonus Ep! Iran and the Laws of War
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Ahab was an authoritarian who convinced his crew to hunt Moby-Dick no matter the cost. Michael Kimmage on Melville's lone dissenter, Starbuck, and a meditation on democracy, citizenship, and the law. historyasithappens.libsyn.com/moby-dick-an...
History As It Happens: Moby-Dick and Democracy
for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby-Dick has something to teach us about democracy, citizenship, and the rule of law. A flop when published ...
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I love this episode with Alexander Avina The Paranoid Politics of "Red Dawn" (1984) historyasithappens.libsyn.com/wolverines-t...
History As It Happens: Wolverines! The Paranoid Politics of 'Red Dawn'
to skip ads, get bonus content, and enjoy 24/7 access to the entire catalog of 500 episodes. 'Red Dawn' was in many ways the perfect movie for its time. Released in 1984, it was an action flick with a...
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One trenchant observation by @salimyaqub63 in this episode about Suez 1956 and Hormuz 2026, is that Anthony Eden was open to reason and realized he had blundered spectacularly. Today, Trump is still blustering about controlling Hormuz (and charging a fee!) historyasithappens.libsyn.com/american-suez
History As It Happens: American Suez
for early access, ad-free listening, and bonus content! Great Britain, France, and Israel's secret plan in 1956 to invade Egypt, regain control of the Suez Canal, and force the nationalist strongman G...
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Senator Lindsey Graham's influence will endure in some areas, none more so than in the makeup of the federal judiciary. He was also a face of Trumpism, after first condemning the man in the 2016 campaign. Full episode: https://historyasithappens.libsyn.com/the-death-of-lindsey-graham
Historian Roger Griffin says genuine fascist movements are not our problem today. The forces that are de-liberalizing the liberal world are far more dangerous. Full conversation: https://historyasithappens.libsyn.com/roger-griffin-from-fascism-to-trumpism
The discourse is drowning in -isms. Roger Griffin is here to help: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/roger-griffi...
History As It Happens: Roger Griffin, From Fascism to Trumpism
Keep the narrative flow going while supporting the show! for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. The discourse is drowning in -isms. President Trump is railing against an imagina...
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Trump is not an ideologue, by like any world leader in history, he conveys ideas, ideologies, and myths. With Roger Griffin, the renowned expert on fascism: https://historyasithappens.libsyn.com/roger-griffin-from-fascism-to-trumpism
We can forget American democracy took decades to develop and is still a work in progress. Iranian democracy was in its infancy when the U.S. backed a coup to topple Mossadegh, leaving us to wonder what Iran might be like today had it never happened. historyasithappens.libsyn.com/why-mossadeg...
History As It Happens: Why Mossadegh Matters
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Who was Mohammad Mossadegh? historyasithappens.libsyn.com/why-mossadeg...
History As It Happens: Why Mossadegh Matters
for ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content. When the Trump administration attacked Iran in late February, some war backers dreamt that the Iranian people would rise en masse and take contr...
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A British actor plays the title role in "Young Washington." I screened the film and can say that William Franklyn-Miller pulls it off. Full episode: https://historyasithappens.libsyn.com/martin-at-the-movies-young-washington
