Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRobert Templer, "The Shah's Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followed (Hurst, 2026)
Episode 928
In 1971, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi threw a party to celebrate the 2,500-year anniversary of the Persian Empire. It was planned to be a massive party…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Arlene W. Saxonhouse, "Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists" (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)
Episode 927
Athenian Democracy provides innovative readings of ancient theorists to reveal both the complexity of democracy's achievements and its limits.
In Ath…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Brexit Britain: 10 Years on from the Referendum
Episode 926
Anniversaries provide opportunities to take stock and reflect. It is now ten years since voters in the United Kingdom cast their ballots in a referen…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
Episode 924
We were joined by Professor Margaret O’Mara of the University of Washington, who had a front row seat to the Clinton campaign and went on to become a…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Diasporic Hindu Right with Savera
Episode 925
This episode features a conversation with Prachi and Ram, organizers with Savera, a multiracial, interfaith, anti-caste coalition of Indian Americans…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Courtney Rickert McCaffrey et al., "Geostrategy By Design: How to Manage Geopolitical Risk in The New Era of Globalization" (Disruption Books, 2024)
Episode 923
How should executives position a company for growth when the geopolitical future is so uncertain? Recent events in Ukraine and the Middle East and ti…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Alex Law, "The Roots of Sociology: Scottish Enlightenment and the Civilising Process" (Routledge, 2026)
Episode 922
The thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment have often been claimed for sociology. But, what does it mean to say these thinkers were sociologists, o…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Predictable Shock of Brexit: Cultural Dissonance and the Rise of Populism with Iain Quinn
Episode 921
Was Brexit really a sudden, populist shock, or was the writing on the wall for decades? This week on International Horizons, Eli Karetny sits down wi…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Gary Hoover, "Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 920
In Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead (University of California Press, 2026), Gary Hoover asks the reader a sim…
5 months ago
India’s 2026 State Elections and Indian Democracy?
Episode 919
This week on Democracy Dialogues, Maya Tudor speaks with two keen observers of Indian politics, Gilles Verniers and Yamini Aiyar, about what India’s…
5 months ago