Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRobert Shum, "Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?: Climate and Energy Politics between Crisis and Decarbonization" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Episode 998
Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?: Climate and Energy Politics between Crisis and Decarbonization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) tackles a critical question…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Meghan Garrity, "Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 997
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, governments around the world have expelled, en masse, more than 30 million people. Yet despite its prev…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Jieun Baek, "Privileged But Powerless: How North Korean Elite Grievances Reveal the Regime’s Greatest Weakness" (Yale UP, 2026)
Episode 996
What do the people closest to power really think about the system they serve? That’s perhaps one of the most important questions one could ask about …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Nikhil Kalyanpur, "Legal Weapons of the Wealthy: The Offshoring of Elite Conflict in Emerging Markets" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Episode 995
In Legal Weapons of the Wealthy: The Offshoring of Elite Conflict in Emerging Markets (Cornell University Press, 2026), Dr. Nikhil Kalyanpur examines…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Michael Diniscia and Ellyn M Toscano eds. "Civility Unbound: Contesting a Democratic Value" (NYU Press, 2026)
Episode 994
The idea of civility goes back to classical Rome and the ways in which citizens engaged one another within the republic. The term itself is often u…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Jonathan Quong, "Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 993
Can laws be unjust and yet remain, in some sense, morally legitimate? In Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice (Princeton UP, 2026…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Political Philosophy of Mark Twain: On His Absurd, Noble Americans with Ivan Kenneally
Episode 992
While many know that Mark Twain created some of the most famous characters in literature—Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Jim and Puddn’head Wilson—t…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Richard Ned Lebow, "Why Nations Still Fight" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 991
Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short case studies, Richard Ned Lebow off…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Srirupa Roy, "The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 990
Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years o…
2 months ago
Catherine Reyes-Housholder, "How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America" (Temple UP, 2026)
Episode 989
Between 1990 and 2020, women candidates won only 6% of the world’s presidential races. How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America (Temple …
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