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Back to SearchFlorentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 138
Florentine Koppenborg’s Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance (Cornell UP, 2023) begins with the understated observation tha…
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James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 198
Was the use of violence on January 6th Capitol attacks legitimate? Is the use of violence morally justified by members of Extinction Rebellion or Jus…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 662
To achieve legitimate self-government in America's extended Republic, the U.S. Constitution depends on Congress harmonizing the country's factions th…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 181
What is political independence? As a political act, what was it sanctioned to accomplish? Is formal colonialism over, or a condition in the present, …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 663
Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and the Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, h…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Amitav Acharya, "Tragic Nation: Burma--Why and How Democracy Failed" (Penguin Random House, 2023)
Episode 125
What went wrong with Burma’s democratic experiment? How are we to understand the country’s turbulent politics in the wake of the 2021 coup?
In this co…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Joel S. Wit, "Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea" (Yale UP, 2025)
After nearly four decades of negotiations, sanctions, summits, threats, and backdoor channels, the United States has failed to stop North Korea's nuc…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Profile Books, 2026)
Across the globe, democracy is in crisis - in the UK alone, it has been rocked by Brexit, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypa…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Paul Kelly, "Against Postliberalism: Why ‘Family, Faith and Flag’ is a Dead End for the Left" (Polity, 2025)
Post-liberalism is all the rage on the American right, finding a common cause between legal theorists like Adrian Vermeule and Patrick Deneen and ris…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Weila Gong, "Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 17
This episode explores what China’s subnational climate experiments tell us about the possibilities and limits of climate leadership in an era of inte…
3 months, 3 weeks ago