The turmoil and changes of the past five years — from the coronavirus pandemic to the second Trump administration — make clear one basic fact: the post Cold War era is over. It could be that happened already in 2008, in the financial crisis, or it could be in 2014 when Russia invaded Ukraine and took the Crimean peninsula from it. It could be any consequential date that marked a change, a clear change, from before and after. But whichever date or event is chosen, it is clear a change of times, of eras has happened — and that the cascade of events we are living through is an historic time.

To explore the meaning of this term, as well as the reality of living through it, Ilana Bet-El is joined by Professor Marci Shore of Yale University — who is definitely someone who can help examine and explain these core issues. A cultural historian of Eastern Europe who also found and finds herself drawn to the current conflict in Ukraine and works to aid the Ukrainians. An American using her understanding of Europe to analyse events in the US. A writer and deep thinker who helps us all understand this period of time in another dimension.

A strong sharp conversation about the past, the present, history and reality.

This episode was recorded on 30 April 2025

Chapters

• What defines an historic time?
• The difference between historical events
• What does a real revolution feel like?
• Is Ukraine living in historic time?
• Reading the current US situation as an historian

Mentions

• Marci Shore’s articles and essays
• Her essay “With Shestov in Ukraine”, Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
• Her book “The Ukrainian Night”
• Jan Karski
• Documentary Shoah
• “In Kyiv, we discuss philosophy, poetry and air raid siren protocol,” co-authored with Amelia M. Glaser, CNN (29 March 2024);
• Nataliya Gumenyuk, Angelina Kariakina, Janice Stein
• Poem “A song on the End of the World”, Czeslaw Milosz

Credits

Production: Florence Ferrando

Music: Let Good Times Roll

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