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Back to SearchLori Jo Marso, "Feminism and the Cinema of Experience" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 770
Political theorist Lori Marso has been intrigued by filmmaker Chantal Ackerman for many years and has integrated Ackerman’s work into her courses at …
1 year, 5 months ago
Nicholas Barry et al., "Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 767
Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics (Routledge, 2025) is an excellent edited volume exploring the various ways in which gove…
1 year, 5 months ago
Postscript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
Episode 571
We’ve been focusing on the dynamics of democratic backsliding in the United States and beyond. In this episode of Postscript: Conversations on Politi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World
Episode 168
This week on International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey interviews historian Tara Zahra, author of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass P…
1 year, 5 months ago
Make Britain Great Again? The MAGA-Style Rise of Reform UK
Episode 11
Britain's Conservative Party is one of the oldest and most successful political parties in history. Local elections in the UK have signalled that the…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 412
In My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America (Princeton University Press, 2025), Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in whi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Lara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 66
In Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights (Duke University Press 2024), Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, pol…
1 year, 5 months ago
What is environmental authoritarianism and why we should be mindful of its allure
Episode 30
The argument that authoritarian governments are better at dealing with the climate emergency is gaining ground, fuelled by the idea that undemocratic…
1 year, 5 months ago
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 206
Today, and for the past several years, many people both here and abroad have been trying to make sense of the radical right and its financial and ide…
1 year, 5 months ago
Threats to Universities and What We Can Do: A Conversation with Brandice Canes Wrone
Episode 149
Universities are under attack, but what exactly are the threats? How does free speech in the last 10 years compare to today? What do we stand to lose…
1 year, 5 months ago