Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBenjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 55
While media pundits continually speculate over the future leanings of the so-called “Latino vote,” Benjamin Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos w…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
How do states advance their national security interests? Conventional wisdom holds that states must court the risk of catastrophic war by “tying thei…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politics After Globalization" (Polity Press, 2025)
Globalization is over. With US president Donald Trump pursuing an 'America First' agenda in trade and foreign policy, everyone now recognises the urg…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Suruchi Mazumdar, "Divided Media: Politics and Mediated Movements in India" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 287
Suruchi Mazumdar’s book addresses the complex relationship between India’s evolving, emerging media landscape, the political and economic interests o…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking Democracy
Episode 36
For a long time many (although by no means all) scholars saw the relationship between capitalism and democracy as mutually reinforcing: economic comp…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 406
Murad Idris, a political theorist in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, explores the concept of peace, the term…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality " (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 248
In this sweeping new history of humanity, told through the prism of our ever-changing moral norms and values, Hanno Sauer shows how modern society is…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Teo Ballvé, "The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Episode 36
In The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia (Cornell UP, 2020), Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the ca…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 32
Joseph Gfroerer spent nearly 40 years working as a statistician for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental He…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 65
Sanctions have become the go-to foreign policy tool for the United States. Coercive economic measures such as trade tariffs, financial penalties, and…
8 months, 3 weeks ago