🔴Ahmed asks Professor Saladin Ambar about President Trump’s “favorite president”, Andrew Jackson, whose behavior and reputation bears a striking resemblance to Trump. Ambar goes on to contextualize Abraham Lincoln’s opposition to Jackson, and talks about the modern Democratic Party’s nonchalance towards the preservation of democracy.

🟢About the guest: Saladin Ambar is a professor of political science and political history at Rutgers University. His work focuses on American political development, race, and presidential leadership. Murder on the Mississippi excavates the crimes at the heart of Lincoln's Lyceum Address and makes the case for a new understanding of Lincoln's early politics.

⚫About Vital Signs: A podcast by the Center for Progressive Research. Each week we sit down with the authors, scholars,and experts whose work follows the signpost topics shaping progressive policy and theory.

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Creative Director/Editor: Dee White

Producer/Socials: Sandy Dahari

Director of Photography: Wes Ortiz

Sound Editor: BT Hathaway

Logo Design: Iasmin Omar Ata

Original Score: Rockwell Shapiro

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🔴In this bonus episode Professor Bruce Robbins gives Ahmed his background and explains how his worldview was shaped in relation to Zionism.

🟢About the guest: Bruce Robbins is a professor of humanities in the English and Comparative Literature department at Columbia University. His work spans literary criticism, cosmopolitanism, and the politics of culture.

⚫About Vital Signs: Brought to you by the Center for Progressive Research. Each week host Ahmed Ragab interviews authors and experts in issues surrounding progressive policy and theory.

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CREDITS

Brought to you by The Center for Progressive Research.

Creative Director/Editor: Dee White

Producer/Socials: Sandy Dahari

Director of Photography: Wes Ortiz

Sound Editor: BT Hathaway

Logo Design: Iasmin Omar Ata

Original Score: Rockwell Shapiro

Stock music provided by Pixabay

Studio provided by Retina Creative Lab

🔴In this bonus episode, Professor Amelia Frank-Vitale walks Ahmed through how Hurricane Mitch’s devastation spurred the consolidation of gangs like MS-13 in Honduras.

🟢About the guest: Amelia Frank-Vitale is an anthropologist at Princeton University whose work focuses on immigration, gang violence, and the politics of mobility in Honduras and Central America. Leave If You Can is the product of years of fieldwork in San Pedro Sula and engagement with asylum cases, deportees, gang members, and families navigating bordered worlds.

⚫About Vital Signs: Brought to you by the Center for Progressive Research. Each week host Ahmed Ragab interviews authors and experts in issues surrounding progressive policy and theory.

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Brought to you by The Center for Progressive Research.

Creative Director/Editor: Dee White

Producer/Socials: Sandy Dahari

Director of Photography: Wes Ortiz

Sound Editor: BT Hathaway

Logo Design: Iasmin Omar Ata

Original Score: Rockwell Shapiro

Stock music provided by Pixabay

Studio provided by Retina Creative Lab

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