Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeremy J. Holland, "The Political Worldviews of American Social Movements: Partisan Politics and the Future of Democracy" (Routledge, 2026)
Episode 937
The Political Worldviews of American Social Movements: Partisan Politics and the Future of Democracy (Routledge, 2026) explores the political worldv…
4 months, 1 week ago
Jonathan Daly, "The Man Who Knew Russia: Richard Pipes, Humanist and Cold Warrior" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Episode 936
He’s been called the man academics love to hate. One time, when the author disclosed that he worked with Pipes, the colleague responded, “I will fo…
4 months, 1 week ago
Gareth Doherty, "Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design" (U Virginia Press, 2025)
Episode 938
Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage …
4 months, 1 week ago
Alena Ledeneva, "Russian Pendulum: Paradoxes, Practices and Patterns" (UCL Press, 2026)
Episode 935
Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the University College London and a founder of the Global Informality Project. Her research…
4 months, 1 week ago
Alex Boodrookas, "Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 934
In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. The…
4 months, 1 week ago
Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 933
Anna O. Law, the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights in the Department of Political Science at City University of New York-Brooklyn Campus, h…
4 months, 1 week ago
Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober
Episode 932
American democracy is in a period of crisis, so it seems natural to look back to its origins. So here in Episode 10 of Season 5, I interview Professo…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota
Episode 930
Like many people, I've been following the developments of AI, testing out new models and following the deluge of news stories about the fight for sup…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes, "War at Arm's Length: How America Can Build Effective Partners Through Military Assistance" (Yale UP, 2026)
Episode 931
An in-depth examination of how the United States can build more effective partner militaries.
Military assistance has a bad reputation. Large-scale a…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Karine Premont and Christopher J. Devine eds., "Second in Command: Reevaluating the Role of Vice Presidents and Running Mates in Modern American Politics" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
Episode 929
Karine Premont and Christopher Devine have a new edited volume focusing on the American Vice Presidency and analyzing not just the office and the of…
4 months, 2 weeks ago