With the midterms a few weeks behind us, and results still coming in, what could be more interesting? Is the Blue Wave actually going to work out in the end, after the recounts in Florida and Georgia?

In this episode of Everybody Assumes, Johns Hopkins Professor Nathan Connolly and I explore the more subtle ideas especially around Race underlie our current politics, how our assumptions about contentious issues came to be, and thinking about how narratives of history are created by those in power.

Currently, Prof. Connolly is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and author of the forthcoming books "Four Daughters: An America Story" and "Black Capitalism: The 'Negro Problem' and the American Economy"; he also co-hosts the weekly podcast, Backstory.

Prof. Connolly co-authored a syllabus for a hypothetical class explaining the Trump era; I would highly recommend: https://www.publicbooks.org/trump-syllabus-2-0/?utm_content=buffer46380&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer