Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchArash Azizi, "What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom" (Oneworld, 2024)
Episode 1
On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes ou…
1 year, 5 months ago
India Rising: Navigating the Second Cold War in South Asia from Nepal to the Maldives
Episode 10
What is the role of India in the Second Cold War (SCW) in South Asia? How do local histories, internal politics, and subnational dynamics shape relat…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sarah Ball, "Behavioural Public Policy in Australia: How an Idea Became Practice" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 21
Max Weber once remarked that bureaucracy’s power comes from its massing of expert and factual knowledges. It amasses this power, in part, by keeping …
1 year, 6 months ago
Steven Levitsky, "Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All" (Crown, 2024)
Episode 193
America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done.…
1 year, 6 months ago
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 108
Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Criti…
1 year, 6 months ago
Jennifer Chudy, "Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 743
There is racial inequality in America, and some people are distressed over it while others are not. Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sym…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sarah M. Stitzlein, "Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era: Emphasizing Truth in the Education of Citizens" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 241
Democracy is struggling in an age of populism and post-truth. In a world swirling with competing political groups stating conflicting facts, citizens…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart
Episode 123
In the latest episode of Madison’s Notes, we sit down with Dr. Paul DeHart, professor of Political Science at Texas State University and author of Th…
1 year, 6 months ago
Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)
Episode 278
When U.S. presidents clash with corporate titans, what tips the balance of power?
In The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in C…
1 year, 6 months ago
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 107
Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power…
1 year, 6 months ago