Heather Ann Thompson

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670 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 26 Jun

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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci · Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson · 28 Apr 2026 podcast

very strategically become the largest purveyor of news in the United States, the most watched news in the United States.

And over time, much more misinformation, much less fact checking and bias checking.

And it's going to be a very, very important tool, as we later saw, for the rise in what we have right now, which is the hordes of immigrants coming over the border.

Keep your eye on them.

Don't keep your eye on the fact that the tax rate for rich people is lower than it's ever been since the 19th century.

Keep your eye on the three-headed baby.

Don't keep your eye on the fact that there's no more public...

hospital care for you know x y and z so you can get the point i didn't realize how deliberately this was all kind of crafted over 50 years to end up where we are right now so i want to i want to test something on you and get your reaction to it and

Yeah.

It's a great question.

So there's a little bit of a yes and no in there.

So on the one hand, when we look back in American history, there is this kind of romantic view that at least there was a time, and I do think it's a little romantic, that rich people understood they had to take care of at least enough people through philanthropy.

And it's not that that wasn't the case.

There was always philanthropy.

There was always rich people that were willing to

you know, fund a hospital or set up a library or, you know, try at least to give a little bit back.

But one of the most dramatic things that happens over the course of the 20th century, it's the thing that actually allowed your

your family to become union members.

It took a lot of fights, deep, deep fights.

Ford was in a bitter, bitter battle with the UAW, with the UAW insisting that workers had the right to a decent wage, and Ford bringing in goon squads to absolutely try to break the union.

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