Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAllison Rank et al., "Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Episode 758
Political Scientists Lauren C. Bell, Allison Rank, and Carah Ong Whaley have a new edited volume, Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an E…
1 year, 2 months ago
Alpa Shah, "The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India" (OR Books, 2024)
Episode 264
The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India (OR Books, 2024) pulls back the curtain on Indian democracy to tell the remarkable an…
1 year, 2 months ago
Sunila S. Kale and Christian Lee Novetzke, "The Yoga of Power: Political Thought and Practice in India" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Episode 376
In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most often it refers to philosophy or methods to control…
1 year, 2 months ago
Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 239
The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role…
1 year, 2 months ago
William Sweet, "Before and After Democracy: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics" (Peeters, 2023)
Episode 757
Recognized for his work on philosophy, religion and politics, Dr. Sweet talks at length about Before and After Democracy: Philosophy, Religion, and P…
1 year, 2 months ago
Seungsook Moon, "Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 12
Dr. Seungsook Moon’s Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism was published by Columbia University Press in Jul…
1 year, 2 months ago
Michael Albertus, "Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies" (Basic Books, 2025)
Episode 168
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of land ownership is even greater than we might think. In Land Powe…
1 year, 2 months ago
Rebecca Davis Gibbons, "The Hegemon's Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 120
At a moment when the nuclear nonproliferation regime is under duress, Rebecca Davis Gibbons provides a trenchant analysis of the international system…
1 year, 2 months ago
Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 510
Today I talked to Chris Voparil about What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics (Princeton UP, 2023), a book of Richard Rorty's writings he co-edited…
1 year, 2 months ago
Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 238
Immigration is now a polarizing issue across most advanced democracies. But too much that is written about immigration fails to appreciate the comple…
1 year, 2 months ago