The Bright Podcast
Listening to America, Season 6: “Soldiers don’t get to pick the wars that they fight in. Politicians do that.”
William, Class of 2023, interviews a veteran of the U.S. War in Afghanistan while analyzing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues, and Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology).” This episode is brought to you by Listening to America, a series developed by Mr. Miley’s American Literature students.