The People's Historian / Galvanizing Labor Day
The People's Historian / Galvanizing Labor Day Ralph Nader Sep 05, 2026 Ralph welcomes sportswriter Dave Zirin to talk about his new book, "The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn." Then Ralph speaks to labor activist Gene Bruskin about their upcoming Labor Day event at Busboys and Poets in DC, "Galvanizing Labor Day for a Workers’ Compact." Dave Zirin is the sports editor for The Nation , a columnist for the Progressive , and the author of eight books on the politics of sports, including What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States and A People’s History of Sports in the United States . His new book is The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn . There’s a despondency that exists now, I believe, among people who are also very angry about the state of our politics. And the thing that Howard always insisted upon—he was an activist who happened to be a historian, not a historian who was an activist. And tha...