Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHanno 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…
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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…
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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…
1 year, 3 months 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…
1 year, 3 months ago
Luke A. Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election Of 1968" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 637
A sitting Democratic president who chooses not to run for re-election, a vice president running out of the president’s shadow, and a Republican nomin…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ketian Zhang, "China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 114
Emerging from an award-winning article in International Security, China's Gambit examines when, why, and how China attempts to coerce states over per…
1 year, 3 months ago
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
Episode 562
All nations make rules -- through their constitutions, legislatures, bureaucratic practices – about who counts as a citizen. American by Birth examin…
1 year, 3 months ago
Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age" (UP Kansas, 2020)
Episode 76
In a 2012 opinion piece bemoaning the state of the US Senate, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank cited a “leading theory: There are no giants in …
1 year, 3 months ago
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 610
In the United States, systemic racism is embedded in policies and practices, thereby structuring American society to perpetuate inequality and all of…
1 year, 3 months ago
David E. Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht, "See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 632
Notre Dame University Political Scientists Dave Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht have a new book that focuses on the impression that female candidate…
1 year, 3 months ago