
Heartland Politics with Robin Johnson
Saturday at 12:30 pm on WVIK News 90.3 FM and 90.3 HD1.
Heartland Politics with Robin Johnson is a political podcast discussing current issues we face as a country featuring interviews with senators, congressmen, governors, and other political elite.
Latest Episodes
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Sonja Trom Eayrs discusses her book Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America, a story of her family farm's fight against factory farms that changed agriculture and small townsthroughout the US.
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Who was James Jesus Angleton? Why is he important to understanding America in the Cold War era?
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Mike Thomas, co-author with the late Bill Zehme of a new biography of Johnny Carson called Carson the Magnificent.
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Sarah Vogel discusses her recent book The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm.
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Paul Collier, renowned development economist and author of Left Behind:A New Economics for Neglected Places
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Jonathan Weisman, an economics and labor policy reporter for the NewYork Times, discusses a recent article he wrote on how the slippage ofworking class support for Democrats predated Trump
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Brian Reisinger talks about his book, Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer.
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Ruth Harkin discusses her new book, When My Husband Ran for President and Other Short Stories
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John Ganz discusses his book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
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Yuval Levin, director of social, cultural and constitutional studies atthe American Enterprise Institute and former domestic policy advisor toPresident George W. Bush, discusses his new book, American Covenant: Howthe Constitution Unified Our Nation--And Could Again.