Nostalgia Trap

Sarah Taber is a crop scientist and ex-farmworker with a wide knowledge of agricultural history and practice, which you ... Read more

Kevin Kruse is a historian at Princeton University and the author of a number of important books about race, class, and ... Read more

Mike Pearl is a writer and self-described “apocalypse expert” whose new book The Day It Finally Happens explores the in... Read more

A.M. Gittlitz is a writer on radical politics, counterculture, and the paranormal, and the producer of a wonderful podca... Read more

Luke O’Neil is a writer whose work chronicles the dark edges of 21st century America, capturing the horrific tenor of ou... Read more

With a nation in quarantine, Justin Rogers-Cooper joins us for a deep dive into the political opportunities presented by... Read more

Justin Rogers-Cooper returns to continue our series on the extraordinary historical moment created by the COVID-19 crisi... Read more

Sam Yang is the host of Southpaw, a podcast about the intersection of leftist politics and combat sports. Yang is on a ... Read more

Sarah Milov is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and the author of The Cigarette: A Political Histor... Read more

Kevin Baker is a historian studying the ways policymakers use predictive computer models to map the future. In this conv... Read more

With Trap favorite Bill Black joining us, a conversation about David’s irrational fear of spiders leads into a wider con... Read more

Brendan O’Malley is a historian and teacher whose experience with his school’s abrupt closure was the subject of a fasc... Read more

KJ Shepherd is a Ph.D. historian whose research focuses on the history of American standardized testing and the “test pr... Read more

Writer and cultural critic Erik Davis joins us to discuss his fascinating, often startling new book, High Weirdness: Dru... Read more

Eli Valley is a comic artist and writer with an intense, visceral aesthetic that perfectly captures the rotten politics ... Read more

Justin Rogers-Cooper returns to continue our discussion of this Summer of Strangeness, this time taking on the Jeffrey E... Read more

Trap favorites KJ Shepherd and Bill Black return for a much-needed election year vibe check, in which we discuss our ind... Read more

Yasmin Nair is a writer and activist who always says what’s on her mind, and the results are consistently some of the mo... Read more

Tom DePaola is a Ph.D. candidate studying higher ed and academic labor at USC, and co-author (along with Adrianna J. Kez... Read more

Susan Schnall served as a nurse in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. Her experiences treating wounded Marines at Oak... Read more