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Friends & Fellow Citizens#165: Insurgence of the Tea Party as a Faction of Governance Dissatisfaction feat. Dr. Rachel BlumThe Tea Party may feel like a long time ago, but was it really just a movement? Or was it a much larger phenomenon? Dr. Rachel Blum, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma and the Carl Albert Center, previews her book about the Tea Party's takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Tea Party became one of the most disruptively consequential political movements in recent U.S. political history.Check out Dr. Blum's website rachelmblum.com and her book available on Amazon!Support the showVisit georgewashingtoninstitute...2025-03-0358 min
The Conversation Art PodcastArt historian and scholar Joan Kee on Korean contemporary art, emojis, and going through law school & corporate law on her way to becoming an art historianJoan Kee, University of Michigan art historian and current Ford Foundation Scholar in Residence at the Museum of Modern Art, talks about: Her residency at MoMA, where she has been looking into expanding their programming to include art that is more international/not from the U.S., but from the ‘global majority;’ her career trajectory, from art history in undergrad to law school and then corporate lawyer for long enough to pay off her $100+K in debt, a calculation she was able to make partially due to her poker-playing experience); the obstacles she faced getting into a PhD...2022-11-121h 21