What’s the Deal With Concentration Camps? (Half the Answer #67B, with Andrea Pitzer)

Caitlin M. Green, Trent R. Nelson, Andrea Pitzer Feb 27, 2026

Trent and Caitlin talk with author and journalist Andrea Pitzer about the modern concentration camp model, its history and public perception, and the concentration camps the United States government is operating and hopes to open in the near future.

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Resources

Andrea's website

Andrea's newsletter

Andrea's book on camps

Andrea's book on Nabokov

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Authors

Caitlin Green is a linguist specializing in Discourse Studies and Pragmatics. She lives in California with her husband, two daughters, and a very small black cat.

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Trent R. Nelson is a poet, historian, and philosopher, as well as a political and socioeconomic analyst. He is the managing editor for MWF Springfield and a contributing editor with Liberal Currents.

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Andrew Pitzer is a journalist and the author of three books: One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, and The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov.

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