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1 week ago | 
democracyjournal.org | Nicole Hemmer
In 1971, a few weeks after The New York Times wrapped its explosive series on the Pentagon Papers, the conservative magazine National Review ran a scoop of its own: another set of secret papers, this time showing that victory had been possible in Vietnam if only the U.S. government and military had taken a more aggressive approach.
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2 months ago | 
publicseminar.org | T. Alexander Aleinikoff |Hiroshi Motomura |Natalia Mehlman Petrzela |Nicole Hemmer
Join hosts T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura, and Cristina M. Rodríguez for a conversation with guest Stephen I. Vladeck about the Mahmoud Khalil Case, deportation power, and the Constitution.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
kuow.org | Alissa Escarce |Nicole Hemmer
These days, we're used to media that thrives on conflict and amplifies the most outrageous voices in the room. We can trace this style back to the shock jocks of the 1980s, like Howard Stern, or to in-your-face conservative talk show hosts, like Rush Limbaugh. But the real founding father of angry, sensational media was a 1960s talk show host named Joe Pyne, according to several people who knew Pyne and have studied his work.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Frank Bruni |Nicole Hemmer |Tim Miller
Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Nicole Hemmer, a history professor at Vanderbilt and the author of " Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s," and Tim Miller, the author of " Why We Did It: A Travelogue From the Republican Road to Hell," to discuss President Trump's stunt politics and how Republicans leverage emotionally charged issues over a long horizon.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Nicole Hemmer
Dec. 23, 2024, 11:00 AM UTCWhat a bipartisan group of legislators hammered out over months, Elon Musk destroyed with a tweet. Or rather, with dozens of posts on his social media site X, sent at a furious pace over the course of 12 hours last week. In post after post, Musk hammered at the budget deal with a flurry of false claims and threats of electoral retribution against any Republican who dared support the legislation brokered to prevent a government shutdown. And it worked.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Nicole Hemmer |Natalia Mehlman Petrzela |Neil Young
On October 28, 2023, the morning of her baby shower, 18-year-old Nevaeh Crain was nauseous, running a fever, and in pain. Soon, the Texas teenager began to bleed and she started to vomit. Nevaeh’s mother, Candice Fails, took her to the hospital, where Nevaeh was diagnosed with strep throat and sent home. A second visit also resulted in no care. Both times, ER staff ascertained that the fetus she was carrying had a heartbeat. That was a problem—for Nevaeh.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
kpbs.org | Nicole Hemmer
Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS appDonald Trump will reassume the presidency (the first to do so since Grover Cleveland) with fewer guardrails than in 2016. What will he do, how will the media cover him, and how can the Democrats get in his way? Guests: The Wall Street Journal's Molly Ball and Vanderbilt's Nicole Hemmer. GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER: Trump's America Watch On Your Schedule: Episodes are available to stream with the the PBS app.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
annehelen.substack.com | Anne Petersen |Nicole Hemmer
Eight years ago, in the blurry early morning hours after Trump won the election, I wrote a piece: This is How Much America Hates Women. It had been the chorus of my thoughts as I watched the results come in: that millions of Americans would rather vote for a chaos muppet in a suit than a capable woman. In the years since, there have been times where I’ve thought the headline was too bombastic, too overblown, too in line with the caricature of a Resistance Lib.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Hannah Berman |Mat Cusick |Nicole Hemmer |Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Artificial Intelligence Concept Collage (2024)| KitohodkA / ShutterstockEmily Nussbaum is a highly celebrated intellectual and writer. She has written for the New Yorker for several years, first as a television critic, then as a staff writer. She’s the author of I Like to Watch, a collection of essays about her television hot takes; she’s also a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic. Her newest book, Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV (Random House, 2024), was published this June to great fanfare.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
ohio.edu | Nicole Hemmer
The Department of History welcomes historian Nicole Hemmer (Vanderbilt University), who will deliver the 46th Annual Endowed Costa Lecture, "Campaigns and Conspiracies: How Conservative Media Changed Presidential Elections," on October 17 in the Baker University Center Ballroom. The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. with refreshments served at 7:00Nicole Hemmer is a political historian specializing in media, conservatism, and the presidency.
