Summary: <p>GOP Senator Mike Lee tweeted this week that “we are not a democracy.” On this week’s On the Media, why the Republican party’s political future may depend upon anti-democratic — small-’d’ — ideas. Plus, how the good luck of the so-called “silent” generation has shaped the politics of Joe Biden. And, how the <em>bad</em> luck of the millennial generation might shape our collective future.</p> <p>1. Nicole Hemmer [<a href="https://twitter.com/pastpunditry">@pastpunditry</a>], Columbia University research scholar and author of <em><a href="https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15571.html">Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics</a></em>, on the origins and evolution of the "republic, not a democracy" slogan. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/history-republic-not-democracy-slogan-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>2. Matthew Sitman [<a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewSitman?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@MatthewSitman</a>], associate editor at the Catholic journal <em><a href="https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/">Commonweal</a></em><em> </em>and co-host of the <em><a href="https://twitter.com/KnowYrEnemyPod">Know Your Enemy</a></em> podcast, on the anti-democratic state of the Republican party. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/against-democracy-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>3. Elwood Carlson, sociology professor at Florida State University, on the "silent generation," members of which comprise much of the governing elite. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/joe-biden-child-lucky-few-generation">Listen.</a></p> <p>4. Anne Helen Petersen [<a href="https://twitter.com/annehelen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@annehelen</a>], author of <em><a href="https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/Cant-Even/9780358316596">Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation</a></em>, on the downwardly mobile millennial generation. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/burnout-generation-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>Music from this week's show:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HFjR4ZLTiY">Prelude of Light</a> — John Zorn<em> </em><em> </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIu0GN-jEDQ">Invitation to a Suicide</a> — John Zorn<a href="https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zcVi-5kJ5YM&list=RDAMVMzcVi-5kJ5YM">The Glass House - Curtains</a> — David Bergeaud<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wneAx7u1vus">Trance Dance</a> — John Zorn<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpcEUMVCek8">Whistle While You Work</a> — Bunny Berigan And His Orchestra<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-BtCVMuL2A">Young At Heart</a> — Brad Mehldau<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Prelude-Invisibles-Emanuel-Frisell-Wollesen/dp/B01MU5P9EV">The Invisibles</a> — John Zorn</p>
