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Podcast 142: Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten on Portland's Descent Into Violence—And Why They Finally Decided to Flee

Quillette, Nancy Rommelmann

28 Mar 2021 · 1 min read

Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay talks to two ex-Portlanders—Nancy Rommelmann and Michael Totten—about how the COVID-19 pandemic and a year of violent protests turned their once beloved city into a fractured, downwardly mobile arena for America’s culture war.

Sources discussed in this podcast include:

Leaving Portland, by Michael Totten
The Internet Locusts Descend on Ristretto Roasters, by Nancy Rommelmann
‘You’re Not Allowed To Film’: The Fight To Control Who Reports From Portland, by Nancy Rommelmann
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, by Colin Woodward

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