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Back to SearchJoe Greenwood-Hau," Capital, Privilege and Political Participation" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
Episode 761
Who gets involved in politics? In Capital, Privilege and Political Participation (Liverpool UP, 2025) Joe Greenwood-Hau a Lecturer in the John Smit…
11 months, 1 week ago
Nina Wilén, "Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 760
The Sahel has become a focal point of international security interventions, with external actors providing extensive security force assistance (SFA) …
11 months, 1 week ago
Democracy and Freedom: The Role of Philanthropy and Education
Episode 759
This week, we feature an episode with Dr. Alvaro Salas-Castro, President and CEO of the Reynolds Foundation, and Founder and Chairman of the Democrac…
11 months, 1 week ago
Emily Callaci, "Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor" (Seal Press, 2025)
Episode 758
Across the globe in the 1970s, a network of feminists distilled their struggles into a single demand: Wages for Housework! Today, it remains a provoc…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Killian Clarke, "Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 757
Why do some revolutions fail and succumb to counterrevolutions, whereas others go on to establish durable rule?
Marshalling original data on counterr…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
160* Hannah Arendt's Refugee Politics (JP)
Episode 756
John's “Arendt's Refugee Politics” came out in Public Books in early November. He made the case that his favorite political philosopher, Hannah Arend…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami
Episode 755
Transcript of the interview
Minna Salami is a writer, social critic, and thought leader on feminism, knowledge production, and the aesthetics and str…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 754
In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventio…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Nicholas Buccola, "One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 753
From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s decade-long clash over th…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore
Episode 752
Today I’m speaking with Hélène Landemore, Professor of Political Science at Yale University, about Democracy and Bullshit, with a special focus on he…
11 months, 2 weeks ago