6/10/2023 0 Comments Slow burn season 1![]() ![]() ![]() Hosted by then–Slate staffer Leon Neyfakh, the 2017 debut season, on Watergate, resonated for obvious reasons (and was eventually adapted for television), while the second season, on the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, proved timely when it overlapped with the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. Slow Burn’s earlier seasons cut through by appealing to Trump-era anxieties. But as engaging as that can be, the series never quite manages to process the significance of this grand American failure - in large part because it’s unwilling to assert a more distinct point of view. It offers a vivid re-creation of what it felt like to live through the events, arguments, and national atmosphere at the time. to invade a country that ultimately had little to do with the 9/11 attacks. “But lots of people who were following the war closely at the time supported it, and not just Republicans.”Īrmed with compelling archival tape and a wide range of new interviews and narrated by veteran journalist (and former New York editorial director) Malone, The Road to the Iraq War explores the conditions that led the U.S. “Knowing what we know now, it’s easy to be smug about what the backers of the war got wrong,” says new host Noreen Malone in the first episode of The Road to the Iraq War, the podcast’s fifth and current season. In some ways, the haziness of the forever war makes it a perfect subject for Slow Burn, the Slate audio-documentary series that has become one of podcasting’s flagship franchises. Its origins feel far enough in the past to be due for reappraisal, yet its dynamics are still so present in our lives that it resists definitive interpretation. The Iraq War lives in a historical uncanny valley. ![]()
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