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New Deal Studies

New Deal Studies

Written by: Aaron Pedinotti
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 A range of experts discuss the New Deal with host Aaron Pedinotti. Guests include historians, activists, political scientists, economists, media scholars, journalists, biographers and artists. Episodes examine the New Deal in its original historical context, trace its legacy throughout the twentieth century, and explore its influence on contemporary politics and culture. Contact us at: nds@newdealstudies.com© 2023 Aaron Pedinotti Social Sciences World
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  • Episode 4: Beau Breslin on Living Constitutions, Alternate Realities, and the New Deal

    Episode 4: Beau Breslin on Living Constitutions, Alternate Realities, and the New Deal
    Mar 5 2022
    Political Scientist Beau Breslin discusses his latest book, A Constitution for the Living, explaining the relevance of its alternate history scenario to the New Deal. Topics discussed include the ways in which constitutional conventions held during the early twentieth century might have affected the New Deal and other aspects of American history; the prospects of constitutional renewal as a potential constraint on the imperial presidency; and the ways in which a new American constitution might reflect the collective changes in philosophical outlook that have developed since the late eighteenth century. Photo by Sarah Condon-Meyers Special Guest: Beau Breslin.
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Episode 3: (Part II: Fall) Margaret O'Mara on the High-Tech Revolution and the Fate of the New Deal Order

    Episode 3: (Part II: Fall) Margaret O'Mara on the High-Tech Revolution and the Fate of the New Deal Order
    Feb 19 2022
    Part II of a conversation with well-known historian of technology and American politics, Margaret O'Mara, about her essay "The High-Tech Revolution and American Capitalism." In this episode, O'Mara explains the ways in which the rise of big tech coincided in symptomatic and instrumental ways with the fall of the New Deal order. Topics covered include: the reasons that big tech's entrepreneurs, engineers, and corporate executives were blind to the ways that they had benefitted from the New Deal state; the emergence of the Silicon Valley lobby; the Atari Democrats; the ways in which Big Tech was useful to the Reagan Revolution; and the lessons that the role of Big Tech in the fall of the New Deal order might hold for the Green New Deal. References: A New York Times op-ed by O'Mara on the reasons that Silicon Valley is not going away: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/opinion/silicon-valley-exodus.html Another of O'Mara's New York Times op-ed on the econic incentives that feul the social media rage machine: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/opinion/election-2020-facebook-twitter.html A Washington Post op-ed in which O'Mara discusses the role of the federal government in helping to build Silicon Valley: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/17/silicon-valley-portrays-itself-hotbed-free-market-enterprise-new-book-explains-how-government-helped-build-it/ A Foreign Policy opinion piece in which O'Mara provides some advice to global planners trying to build their own versions of Silicon Valley: https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/08/06/dont-try-this-at-home/ Special Guest: Margaret O'Mara.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Episode 2: (Part I: Rise) Margaret O'Mara on the High-Tech Revolution and the Fate of the New Deal Order

    Episode 2: (Part I: Rise) Margaret O'Mara on the High-Tech Revolution and the Fate of the New Deal Order
    Feb 5 2022
    Part I of a conversation with well-known historian of technology and American politics, Margaret O'Mara, about her essay "The High-Tech Revolution and American Capitalism." In this episode, O'Mara explains the role of the New Deal in laying the groundwork for the technological revolution of the late twentieth century. The topics discussed include the information-processing needs created by the New Deal; the role of federally built hydroelectric dams in the emergence of the tech industry; the role of computing in the Great Society programs; technological paranoia of the mid-to-late twentieth century; and the relationship of New Deal-style economic intervention to military-industry funding models. Special Guest: Margaret O'Mara.
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    43 mins
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