Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGerald J. Postema, "Law's Rule: The Nature, Value, and Viability of the Rule of Law" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 512
Rule of law faces serious threats to its viability in many countries. It has become a recurring topic in the media and is affecting our daily lives. …
1 year, 7 months ago
Adam K. Webb, "The World's Constitution: Spheres of Liberty in the Future Global Order" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 124
“One thing I would note about the Trumpian populists and their counterparts elsewhere in the West today is that they're a very peculiarly tribal kind…
1 year, 7 months ago
Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 43
Even before its rebirth as a nation in the 1990s, Serbia had acquired a reputation abroad as Russia’s stalwart Slavic ally in the Western Balkans.
Yet…
1 year, 7 months ago
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
Episode 142
This week on Madison’s Notes, we continue our discussion with Stephen Macedo, co-author of In COVID’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us (Princeton UP,…
1 year, 7 months ago
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts, "Creolizing Hannah Arendt" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Episode 760
Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts have edited a new collection of essays, Creolizing Hannah Arendt. This edited volume dives into Hannah Arendt’s…
1 year, 7 months ago
Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)
Episode 762
From Cape Town to Bristol and Richmond, statues have become sites of resistance and contestation of our imperial past and postcolonial present. The P…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024)
Episode 203
Economist Bryan Caplan has written—and artist Ady Branzei has illustrated—this new graphic novel about housing regulation (if ‘novel’ can be applied …
1 year, 7 months ago
Luca Trenta, "The President's Kill List: Assassination and Us Foreign Policy Since 1945" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Episode 757
Investigative reporter Bob Woodward once noted that assassination was the Scarlett letter of American politics because targeted killings challenge th…
1 year, 7 months ago
Matthew Fuhrmann, "Influence without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 124
How does nuclear technology influence international relations? While many books focus on countries armed with nuclear weapons, this volume puts the s…
1 year, 7 months ago
Martin Spychal, "Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act" (U London Press, 2024)
Episode 161
The 1832 Reform Act was a landmark moment in the development of modern British politics. By overhauling the country’s ancient representative system, …
1 year, 7 months ago