The Michael Slate Show--Colliding Universes: The Gypsy Punk of Gogol Bordello & the False History of the Civil War and Slavery

A conversation with Eugene Hutz, lead vocalist, songwriter and guitarist with the band Gogol Bordello, talks about the band, the music, lyrics, his vision and how all that interacts with the world in an amazing burst of Gypsy Punk, some of the most beautiful and powerful music out there today. Jim Loewen, professor and author, talks about his latest book, The Confederate and Neo Confederate Reader, and digs into the hows and whys wrapped up in the deliberate denial of slavery as being at the heart of the Civil War. Jim approaches this historically as well as digging into the meaning it has for today, especially in relation the emergent fascists in the Tea Party movement.