Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGod, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America with Jacob Ware (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 1560
In this episode, I spoke with Jacob Ware, co-author, with Bruce Hoffman, of God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America, published in 2024…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere with Jan Eijking (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 1559
Most international organisations today-from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the World Health Organisation-present themselves as tech…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915
Episode 1558
When American fascists suddenly goose-stepped down Main Street in the 1930s, fascism was seen by the rest of the country as a terrifying and radical …
3 weeks ago
Down and Out in Utopia: Unemployment as Moral Education in Norway with Kelly McKowen (U Toronto Press, 2026)
Episode 1555
Imagine that you have just lost your job. You wonder: “Who or what can I depend on now?” The answer, it turns out, varies significantly depending on …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
A Healthy Union: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health with Susan Kaplan (Island Press, 2025)
Episode 1556
In the absence of adequate federal safeguards against pollution and toxic chemicals, state policies are the strongest tools available to create safe,…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory with Heather Berg (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 1557
“If whores were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free” (ix). Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory (Duke UP, 2026) ope…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession with Nicolas Guilhot (Harvard UP, 2026)
Episode 1554
Pundits, scholars, and the general public alike have argued that conspiratorial thinking is the greatest threat to liberal democracy. In Conspiracy: …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts with Michael Khodarkovsky (Yale UP, 2026)
Episode 1553
What is Russia? For two centuries, observers inside and outside the country have tried to answer that question, and most of them have looked west. Th…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Beyond Incremental Reform: Rethinking the United Nations with Augusto López-Claros
Episode 1552
As the United Nations faces mounting geopolitical tensions, financial pressures, and new global challenges, what would meaningful reform actually loo…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Rhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order with Sasikumar Sundaram (Columbia UP, 2026)
Episode 1551
Recent years have seen a striking resurgence of anti-imperial and anticolonial rhetoric on the international stage, from Global South to Global North…
3 weeks, 6 days ago