Oscar Winberg
@oscarwinberg.bsky.social
historian, politics & media, book coming soon: Archie Bunker for President with @uncpress.bsky.social
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Archie Bunker for President is now available for pre-order on the UNC Press site!!
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Pre-ordering is the best way of support a book so please consider heading over to the @uncpress.bsky.social site and make sure to use the code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!!
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If you need a break from the news (and you do), listen to the latest episode of Unsung History with @oscarwinberg.bsky.social and learn who Archie Bunker endorsed in the 1972 presidential election.
All in the Family
All in the Family page for UNSUNG HISTORY
www.unsunghistorypodcast.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:30 AM
If you need a break from the news (and you do), listen to the latest episode of Unsung History with @oscarwinberg.bsky.social and learn who Archie Bunker endorsed in the 1972 presidential election.
I can't believe Bari Weiss is making me post Aaron fuckin' Sorkin content but this seemed kind of obvious.
youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk?...
youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk?...
January 2, 2026 at 10:43 PM
I can't believe Bari Weiss is making me post Aaron fuckin' Sorkin content but this seemed kind of obvious.
youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk?...
youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk?...
This. Always this. youtu.be/uq-gYOrU8bA?...
December 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This. Always this. youtu.be/uq-gYOrU8bA?...
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Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Heartwarming look at Rob Reiner's remarkable career @sepinwall.bsky.social
My only note: the famous "a sock and a sock or a sock and a short"-scene was the result not of the excellent writers but of Reiner and O'Connor playing around with the characters.
My only note: the famous "a sock and a sock or a sock and a short"-scene was the result not of the excellent writers but of Reiner and O'Connor playing around with the characters.
December 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Heartwarming look at Rob Reiner's remarkable career @sepinwall.bsky.social
My only note: the famous "a sock and a sock or a sock and a short"-scene was the result not of the excellent writers but of Reiner and O'Connor playing around with the characters.
My only note: the famous "a sock and a sock or a sock and a short"-scene was the result not of the excellent writers but of Reiner and O'Connor playing around with the characters.
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
I have been sitting with the heartbreaking news about Rob and Michele Reiner for a while now, struggling to find the right words.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Rob Reiner, wife dead in homicide at Brentwood home; police interview family member
Longtime Hollywood star Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Brentwood home Sunday in what police are describing as an apparent homicide.
www.latimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I have been sitting with the heartbreaking news about Rob and Michele Reiner for a while now, struggling to find the right words.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Today is publication day!! #ArchieBunkerforPresident is now officially out in the world with @uncpress.bsky.social and you can find a copy wherever you find books (and if they don't have one, ask them to order a copy for you!)!!
uncpress.org/978146969090...
uncpress.org/978146969090...
Archie Bunker for President
Delving into the intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s, focusing on the sitcom All in the Family, this book explore...
uncpress.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Today is publication day!! #ArchieBunkerforPresident is now officially out in the world with @uncpress.bsky.social and you can find a copy wherever you find books (and if they don't have one, ask them to order a copy for you!)!!
uncpress.org/978146969090...
uncpress.org/978146969090...
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Olivia Nuzzi was doing journalism the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Olivia Nuzzi was doing journalism the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
Really enjoyed this conversation with @herberthistory.bsky.social about all things Archie Bunker!!
How did All In The Family change American politics? @oscarwinberg.bsky.social explains
cc: @uncpress.bsky.social
cc: @uncpress.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Really enjoyed this conversation with @herberthistory.bsky.social about all things Archie Bunker!!
This is a smart @davekarpf.bsky.social write-up for all who, like me, have been looping these bars all day long:
"Don't let them lead you astray,
This congress does not speak for me,
They're playing a dangerous game."
"Don't let them lead you astray,
This congress does not speak for me,
They're playing a dangerous game."
I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
The Shutdown Surrender
I just... I mean... Whatever.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is a smart @davekarpf.bsky.social write-up for all who, like me, have been looping these bars all day long:
"Don't let them lead you astray,
This congress does not speak for me,
They're playing a dangerous game."
"Don't let them lead you astray,
This congress does not speak for me,
They're playing a dangerous game."
Happening tomorrow!!
Interested in TV, comedy, political activism and/or democracy? Join us online for a conversation with @emilynussbaum.bsky.social & Kim Phillips-Fein!
Interested in TV, comedy, political activism and/or democracy? Join us online for a conversation with @emilynussbaum.bsky.social & Kim Phillips-Fein!
Friends, the Center for Political History, Media, and Technology at Purdue is hosting an online book launch for #ArchieBunkerforPresident. Please, join me next week (Nov 5) for a conversation w/ @emilynussbaum.bsky.social, Kim Phillips-Fein & Sage Goodwin.
Register here: tinyurl.com/ArchieBunker...
Register here: tinyurl.com/ArchieBunker...
November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Happening tomorrow!!
Interested in TV, comedy, political activism and/or democracy? Join us online for a conversation with @emilynussbaum.bsky.social & Kim Phillips-Fein!
Interested in TV, comedy, political activism and/or democracy? Join us online for a conversation with @emilynussbaum.bsky.social & Kim Phillips-Fein!
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Proofs? You can’t handle the proofs!
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Proofs? You can’t handle the proofs!
Friends, the Center for Political History, Media, and Technology at Purdue is hosting an online book launch for #ArchieBunkerforPresident. Please, join me next week (Nov 5) for a conversation w/ @emilynussbaum.bsky.social, Kim Phillips-Fein & Sage Goodwin.
Register here: tinyurl.com/ArchieBunker...
Register here: tinyurl.com/ArchieBunker...
October 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Friends, the Center for Political History, Media, and Technology at Purdue is hosting an online book launch for #ArchieBunkerforPresident. Please, join me next week (Nov 5) for a conversation w/ @emilynussbaum.bsky.social, Kim Phillips-Fein & Sage Goodwin.
Register here: tinyurl.com/ArchieBunker...
Register here: tinyurl.com/ArchieBunker...
Evergreen.
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Evergreen.
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The responses this post is getting, combined with the animating grievances of large swathes of politics, has convinced me we need a kind of society wide PSA about how Buying Things Is Optional.
You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.
You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.
AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The responses this post is getting, combined with the animating grievances of large swathes of politics, has convinced me we need a kind of society wide PSA about how Buying Things Is Optional.
You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.
You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.
LBJ was not wrong: "Some men want power simply to strut around the world and hear the tune of ‘Hail to the Chief.’ Others want it simply to build prestige, to collect antiques, and to buy pretty things. Well, I wanted power to give things to people, all sorts of things to all sorts of people."
October 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
LBJ was not wrong: "Some men want power simply to strut around the world and hear the tune of ‘Hail to the Chief.’ Others want it simply to build prestige, to collect antiques, and to buy pretty things. Well, I wanted power to give things to people, all sorts of things to all sorts of people."
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In Boston, every day is No Kings Day
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
In Boston, every day is No Kings Day
if a 84-yo Bob Dylan, voice broken and raw, belting out "I'm not the one you want, babe, I will only let you down" in front of a stadium audience is not the quintessential Dylan, at least it's damn close.
October 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
if a 84-yo Bob Dylan, voice broken and raw, belting out "I'm not the one you want, babe, I will only let you down" in front of a stadium audience is not the quintessential Dylan, at least it's damn close.
neat waking up to find the feed overwhelmed by detailed posts about what apparently was a long sports game.
October 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
neat waking up to find the feed overwhelmed by detailed posts about what apparently was a long sports game.
*insert gif of walter cronkite removing glasses, nov. 22, 1963*
Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports
October 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
*insert gif of walter cronkite removing glasses, nov. 22, 1963*
Trump is not the first president eager to have an ABC talk show host cancelled. Back in the early 1970s, Nixon was fuming over Dick Cavett, asking his aides "is there any way we can screw him?"
theconversation.com/even-as-jimm...
theconversation.com/even-as-jimm...
Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before
President Nixon tried and failed to cancel ‘The Dick Cavett Show.’ Since then, deregulation and consolidation have made media conglomerates more willing to accommodate those in power.
theconversation.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Trump is not the first president eager to have an ABC talk show host cancelled. Back in the early 1970s, Nixon was fuming over Dick Cavett, asking his aides "is there any way we can screw him?"
theconversation.com/even-as-jimm...
theconversation.com/even-as-jimm...
This is dangerous. There's no other way to say it. Dangerous. Dangerous. Dangerous.
EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country?
TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.
TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.
September 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is dangerous. There's no other way to say it. Dangerous. Dangerous. Dangerous.
My favorite cartoonist working today is @anntelnaes.bsky.social.
September 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
My favorite cartoonist working today is @anntelnaes.bsky.social.