Rachel Maddow on History, Now, and What’s Next

Published 2024-03-05
Hear MSNBC's Rachel Maddow go deep into the rough and inspiring American past in a conversation with Northwestern University’s Professor Kathleen Belew. Topics include Henry Ford, media literacy, and optimism for 2024.

Show notes and transcript: www.chicagohumanities.org/media/podcast-maddow/

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All Comments (21)
  • Rachel Maddow is a blessing. I listen to her broadcasts regularly from Germany. What she explained in her Podcast also applies to what can be done in Europe to save democracy. Thank you Rachel.
  • @susanford4740
    Rachel, is brilliant at helping us to understand the crazy people and actions that are happening in our time.
  • @JohnWilmerding
    I'll always be a big, BIG fan of Rachel's. What a mind! 🎉
  • @lucyg8188
    I never get tired of listening to Rachel...she really is amazing!
  • @jeffwatkins352
    IMO the powerfully compelling core of Rachel's message is not to lose faith in the power of your vote, which the American right is fighting tooth and nail to undermine in order to take complete control over you. Don't let them.
  • Rachel's thought process is wide-ranging, coherent and logical. Her memory is absolutely enviable. The older I get, the more I appreciate the suggestion of reading, reading, reading. Learn the purpose of grammar, which helps w meaning and memory. But READ. Another recommender was the late Maya Angelou. Thank you, Rachel, for your great intellectual contribution to Democracy.
  • @viscountwesley1
    Rachel - a very sincere shout-out from a Canadian viewer/and listener. Your powerful and remarkably spontaneous oratory is complimented by a remarkably quick-fact-accessible mind. Your new book is more than an intellectual and highly disciplined combination of a gift of naturally flowing oratory but is delightfully part of your magnificently flowing writing as well. I hear you speaking and it adds so much to the pleasure of reading. I could not put down your book! You owe me several hours of sleep deprivation. compensation. But, as a fellow historian and writer, I stand in genuine awe of your insatiable appetite for not simply remarkable research and sourcing of rare-to-obtain leads and publications, but the mastery of a modern-day Dickens' storyteller. (hopefully without the crippling demand of high-blood pressure which both completed his reading in character, but brought of his early death in 1870 at only age 59. I long to know what really happened to Edmund Druid.. I can only conclude with a simple but deeply sincere "thank-you" for how you have aided me in my quest for knowledge with pinpoint accuracy. Your Canadian admirer. Timothy R.
  • @gamtngirl3655
    Rachel, I love your optimism that we can handle this again. My concern: each time we go through severe right wing crises, they become more sophisticated, more undetectable and devious, and now with incredible hi tech tools and social media. 😑
  • She is so lucid and insightful. She makes me hopeful and worried all at once.
  • I like your hopeful message. It takes regular people to counter and reject anti Democratic energy.
  • I wish we could see the live version… darn! However, this is some powerful research. Thank you, Thank you!
  • @DeborahGee
    Thank you for such an inspiring talk and Q&A.
  • Rachel is a an elite investigative journalist and a go-to high value resource for all of us seeking evidence based truth - our democracy needs more Rachel Maddows!:yougotthis:
  • @terihammond5932
    Beautifuly stated! Inspiring work, thank you for your excellent presentation.
  • @ginawang2692
    I learn something new every time from Maddow. We instinctively know that what she says is true, that I wasn’t crazy thinking that those people, Republicans are weird that I lived in an upside down world. Thanks for respecting my brain.