You're Wrong About Prohibition

For most of us, Prohibition seems like a peculiar American
experiment—a doomed attempt by straight-laced religious
conservatives to ban alcohol, and, with it, fun. But as it turns
out, we've got it all wrong: Prohibition was actually a progressive
struggle that united powerless and oppressed people around the
world—Leo Tolstoy, Frederick Douglass, Mahatma Gandhi, and Chief
Little Turtle, among others—against a system designed to exploit
them. Listen in now as historian Mark Schrad reveals the real
reasons that Prohibition became "the most popular, most
influential, and longest-lived international social-reform movement
in the history of the world"—and historian Lisa Lindquist-Dorr
tells us about the rum-runners, Cuban entrepreneurs, and corrupt
judges who kept booze flowing during those dry years. Learn more
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