We’re Matt & Alex

We love the 70s. We love the 70s so much that for us they last an extra six years, from about August 1968 (the DNC Convention debacle) to 1984 (Reagan’s re-election landslide). This is a concept called the long seventies, and we first came across it in Bruce J. Schulman’s book The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. Schulman’s book offers some compelling arguments as to why this is a coherent concept, including demographic shifts, political alienation, and the rebirth of conservatism. In this podcast we won’t rehash these arguments. We aim to look at the myriad of other events and trends, large and small, that are worth delving into and investigating, It turns out the 1970s might be the most important decade of the 20th century for coming to an understanding of our current society.