Mickey McElya

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Fresh Air · Miss America ‘68, women’s lib, and the politics of beauty · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

She sues Roger Ailes for sexual harassment.

Help sparks me too.

And then ends up running the Miss America pageant herself.

I'm wondering when you say that you see a resurgence of it, you know, it doesn't even run on television anymore.

It has such a smaller audience.

So what gives you the indication that there may be a resurgence?

I mean, one of the things that I think is fascinating is this September 6th, the next Miss America will be crowned in West Palm Beach, Florida.

It will be crowned at a convention center that is less than six miles away from Mar-a-Lago.

So the move by the Miss America pageant organization to go there and to go there with the help of other major fundraisers

highlights the ways in which, you know, that they are leaning in to the politics of beauty and power that we see.

But if you want to watch live the crowning this year, you have to get a live stream from a subscription service that is dedicated just to pageants.

But as we see the consolidation of media coverage,

And as we look at what happened with Paramount, as we think about what network television looks like in this particular moment and what it might look like, I wouldn't be surprised to see the pageant make its way back.

Mickey McElyea, thank you so much for your scholarship and for this book.

Thank you so much for having me.

Mickey McAuley's new book is Liberation Summer, the moment that changed the women's movement and the future of American politics.

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