end of the cold war. and also i m trying to okay so what we are talking about today is picking up where we left off on thursday with the end of the cold war. and also i m trying to make sure that we stitch different things that we ve had through the quarter and through both quarters together. the program is titled, america 2025. something about the future is important and as i ve been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s, i think it made sense to really dig into, in terms of how people thought about the future in culture, in popular culture, as well as in politics. so the themes and things i want to talk about in terms of this to a little bit of looking back looking forward to and then they re kind of going to be two halves of the lecture, next to, kind of politics and kind of pop culture. so i want to talk about the end of the cold war and especially how it manifested in how americans thought about politics, then i want to talk about pop culture and thi
and also i m trying to make sure that we stitch different themes that we ve had through the quarter and through both quarters together. the program is titled america to 2025. so something about the future is important and as i ve been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s i think makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture in popular cultural as well as in politics. so the themes and overviews that i want to talk about in terms of this do a little bit of looking back looking forward and then they re kind of going to be two halves of the lecture links to kind of politics and links to pop culture. so i want to talk about the end of the cold war and especially how it manifested and how americans thought about politics. then i want to talk about pop culture and think about the the way the 90s thought about the future and thought about the present even in terms of like everything is great or everything is terrible.
some thinking about the future is important and as i ve been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s, i think it made sense to really dig into, in terms of how people thought about the future in culture, in popular culture, as well as in politics. so the themes and overviews i want to talk about in terms of this to a little bit of looking back looking forward too, and then they re kind of going to be two halves of the lecture, linked to, kind, of politics and linked to pop culture. so i want to talk about the end of the cold war and especially how it manifested in how americans thought about politics, then i want to talk about pop culture and think about the way the 90s thought about the future and thought about the present even in terms of, like, everything is great or everything is terrible, either the future will be perfect or all the future is going to be awful. adding here that i as with all of my lectures i m not going to comprehensive coverage. but e
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