Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIan Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
Episode 207
The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. B…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 527
Liberalism is in trouble. As a set of ideas, it has lost much of its historical authority in guiding public policy and personal behaviour. In this po…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis takes on the idea and terminology of freedom, examining our understanding of this c…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Maurizio Ferrera, "Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 44
The starting point of this book is the 'civil war' of ideas that broke out during the early 2010s about the purpose and even the desirability of the …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the West
Episode 10
Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones analyze the global fallout after Donald Trump plunged America and the world into a trade war with China.…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Marcus Kreuzer, "The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 21
In The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis (Cambridge UP, 2023), political scientist Marcus Kreuzer synthesises the differ…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Postscript: Political Scientists Ring Alarm Bell Over Trump’s Second Administration
Episode 40
After being sworn in as the 47th president, President Donald Trump quickly altered American government – and political discourse. He issued a slew of…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Fernanda Gallo, "Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 765
Political Theorist Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge) has a fascinating new book, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Pr…
1 year ago
Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 360
Radical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world. Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton Univ…
1 year ago
Political Mythmaking in Nepal
Episode 244
How and why do local political processes in rural Nepal become an arena for political mythmaking? And, how do political myths obscure their own histo…
1 year ago