A Roaring Twenties Redux?

In this week’s episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki discuss the parallels between the 1920s and our current moment.

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show:

• As “post-pandemic life” becomes imaginable, predictions of a second “Roaring Twenties” are ubiquitous. Niki referred to her article about the promise and limits of such comparisons for CNN. Natalia drew on historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz’ Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present.

 In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History:

• Natalia discussed Rosanna Xia’s Los Angeles Times article, “DDT’s Toxic Legacy Can Harm Granddaughters of Women Exposed, Study Shows”.
• Neil recommended Chloe Angyal’s Washington Post article, “Ballet Directors Talk About ‘Fitness.’ That’s Still Code for Rail-Thin Dancers” and her forthcoming book, Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers is Saving Ballet from Itself
• Niki shared her own CNN opinion piece, “History Shows We Ignore Tucker Carlson at Our Peril.”