Penny M. Von Eschen is author of the new book, \u201cParadoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989.\u201d Penny is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies and Professor of History at the University of Virginia and author of, \u201cSatchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War,\u201d and \u201cRace against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937\u20131957.\u201d We speak with Penny about the enduring legacy of the Cold War in international politics.