The United States of Amnesia
Welcome to The United States of Amnesia, a podcast exploring the lessons we’ve forgotten, misunderstood, or never learned. Over time, history, politics, and religion have been distorted by bias, oversimplification, and myth. This podcast aims to cut through the fog, reconnecting past and present to help us think more clearly about the world we’re in, and the one we're heading toward. Join us as we delve into the great struggle of humanity: to reconcile who we were with who we are becoming.
We post new episodes every other Wednesday. Please explore our website for more information about us, to listen to our episodes, catch up on our blog (we post pictures and sources relevant to different episodes as well as news about upcoming episodes), leave a review, and more!
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Fareed Zakaria on U.S. Isolationism and Opposition to Immigration (Th…
Columnist Fareed Zakaria assesses the Trump administration's 2025 National Security Strategy and draws parallels between it and American opposition to immigration in the 1920s and American isolationism in the 1930s in his Washington Post column of D…
Upcoming Episodes — New Series Premiere!
Episode 201 (new series "Tea, Drugs, and Jesus" premieres December 24!): Ben Franklin got China wrong, and America still does today! Marshall again will lead our discussion in a new series, “Tea, Drugs, and Jesus,” looking…
Karen Tumulty on U.S. Nativism (The Washington Post, December 7, 2025)
Columnist Karen Tumulty compares U.S. nativism of the 1920s with that of today in her Washington Post column of December 7, 2025, discussing themes we also covered in our "America First" series. If you have a Washington Post subscription, you can re…