“The Context” is a podcast about democracy — its past, present and future — brought to you by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. History ripples. It flows and flexes. It rips and tears, teaches and obscures. Nothing happens in a vacuum — from decisions at the dinner table to declarations from the Rose Garden, moments build upon one another as layers of power and purpose, informing our past, illuminating our present, inventing our future. History makes meaning, and context is everything. Welcome to “The Context,” a new podcast from the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. On each episode of “The Context,” someone who has seen it all joins historian and Kettering Senior Program Officer Alex Lovit. You’ll recognize their names — scholars, politicians, journalists and public servants. In a relaxed one-on-one conversation, Alex will get their take on how we got to where we are and what they’ve seen through their experience not only watching the news unfold but sometimes even being the news itself. Reckoning with racism, a crisis of democracy, the right role of government in our daily lives — every question has its reason; every answer has its context.
