Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCasey B. K. Dominguez, "Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers" (UP of Kansas, 2024)
Episode 752
The balance of power between the United States Congress and the president is particularly contested when it comes to war powers. The U.S. Constitutio…
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
Episode 197
Today I’m speaking with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins about the new, edited volume, Did It Happen Here? Perspectives on Fascism and America (W.W. Norton, …
1 year, 4 months ago
David Cowan, "Politics of the Past: Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939–2009" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 1517
The inter-war period (1918–1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation – the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Tho…
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Tristan A. Volpe, "Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 114
Over the last seven decades, some states successfully leveraged the threat of acquiring atomic weapons to compel concessions from superpowers. For ma…
1 year, 4 months ago
Stanislava P. Mladenova, "When Rambo Meets the Red Cross: Civil-Military Engagement in Fragile States" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Episode 113
Non-governmental organisations and militaries are notorious for their difficult relationship. The military is mostly understood through the prism of …
1 year, 4 months ago
Larry Alan Busk, "The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 497
What really separates emancipatory thinking from its opposite? The prevailing Left defines itself against neoliberalism, conservative traditionalism,…
1 year, 4 months ago
Talking Thai Politics: Pornchai Witayalerdpan – What’s Up with the Thai Senate?
Episode 7
How exactly were Thailand’s new slate of 200 Senators selected? What is it like to be an independent member of the Senate, when the chamber is now do…
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Geneviève Rousselière, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 139
The French have long self-identified as champions of universal emancipation, yet the republicanism they adopted has often been faulted for being excl…
1 year, 4 months ago
Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, "The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 74
The past six years have been marked by a contentious political atmosphere that has touched every arena of public life, including higher education. Th…
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Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
Episode 751
In 2024, people around the world focus on an American president who calls for the imprisonment of critics, spreads the culture of white supremacy, an…
1 year, 4 months ago