The Arc of History: An Update

Trumpcast’s penultimate episode.

Episode Notes

For the penultimate episode of Trumpcast, Virginia Heffernan welcomes back Ibram Kendi, director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, to talk about his anti-racist work, the Biden era ahead, and a question that’s been on Virginia’s mind since Kendi came on the show four years ago.

Podcast production by Melissa Kaplan. Engineering help from Richard Stanislaw. Trump impersonation by John Di Domenico.

About the Show

A podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.

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Host

Virginia Heffernan is the host of Trumpcast, a contributing editor at Wired, and a columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She’s the author of Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art.

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