Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Broder, "Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy" (Pluto Press, 2023)
Episode 16
The fastest-rising force in Italian politics is Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia - a party with a direct genealogy from Mussolini's regime. Surging…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Thomas Albert Howard, "Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History" (Yale UP, 2025)
Episode 64
A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century
A popular truism deriv…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Charles G. Thomas, "Ujamaa's Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964-1979" (Ohio UP, 2024)
Episode 318
The immediate postcolonial moment brought both promise and peril for the states of Africa and their security. The process of decolonization generated…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Mary E. Stuckey, "Remembering Jefferson: Who He Was, Who We Are" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Episode 789
Mary E. Stuckey, the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, has a brilliant new book that div…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Dylan Loh, "China's Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Episode 10
How has China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs transformed itself into one of the most assertive diplomatic actors on the global stage? What explains th…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
What happens when liberalism stops feeling like a victory and starts feeling like an exhaustion?
Episode 179
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Director (acting) Eli Karetny speaks with philosopher Alexandre Lefebvre about liberalism not merely a…
10 months ago
Florentine 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…
10 months ago
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…
10 months 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…
10 months 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, …
10 months ago