Claire Bond Potter, Ph.D.
Professor of History Emeritus at The New School for Social Research in New York City
Claire Bond Potter, Ph.D. is Professor of History Emeritus at The New School for Social Research in New York City, and the author of the Political Junkie Substack and an associated podcast, Why Now? She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New Republic, Yale Review, and Dissent. Her most recent book is Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy (2020).