On this episode of Start Making Sense, what it means to have hope, and why the bromance between Trump and the world’s richest man cannot last.
Elon Musk embraces Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds on October 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
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Hope does not mean saying ‘this is not bad,’ Rebecca Solnit argues; it just means we will not give up—because we know that what we do matters, and we also know we’ve been surprised by good things we never expected.
Also: The bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump cannot last – historian David Nasaw will explain why.
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Hope does not mean saying “this is not bad,” Rebecca Solnit argues; it just means we will not give up, because we know that what we do matters, and we also know we’ve been surprised by good things we never expected.
Also on this episode of Start Making Sense: The bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump cannot last—historian David Nasaw explains why.
Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.
Danny and Derek speak with journalist and cultural critic Daniel Waite Penny to discuss the relationship between masculinity, the manosphere, and climate politics, as explored in the new season of Drilled, Carbon Bros. They talk about the “manosphere,” libertarians promoting techno-fixes, and Silicon Valley elites pushing solutions like space colonization; how gendered ideas about strength, autonomy, and grievance have fused with climate denial and hostility toward environmental regulation; where these dynamics fit within broader shifts in political economy and the interests of fossil capital; and the roots of these alignments, their role in contemporary right-wing politics, and what they mean for efforts to build public support for climate action.
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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.