Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy (Columbia University Press, 2025) explores how civil servants na…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Erica D. Lonergan and Shawn W. Lonergan, "Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace" (Oxford UP, 2023)
To what extent do cyberspace operations increase the risks of escalation between nation-state rivals? Scholars and practitioners have been concerned …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman
How to find hope in these times? I spoke with political scientist Loren Goldman about the principle of political hope: why we should have hope, how t…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Júlia Király, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
Episode 45
Donald Trump is putting liberal democracy through its greatest test in 80 years.
None of it is original. His style of rule is straight from the demo…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
The ethics of the company in a highly politicized time. Businesses are increasingly social actors. They fund political campaigns, take stances on soc…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Samuel Western, "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (UP of Kansas)
When did the West lose its way? In 1889, when the US government carved five states out of the spawling Dakota Territory, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 207
The influence of partisan news is presumed to be powerful, but evidence for its effects on political elites is limited, often based more on anecdotes…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Helen Thompson on Disorder and the Analysis of Contemporary Geopolitics
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University and co-host of the great podcast…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 246
What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences?
Liberty as Independence: The Making a…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 132
In a multipolar world where America wields less relative power, the United States can no longer get away with poor statecraft. To understand how the …
10 months, 3 weeks ago