Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPostscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship
Episode 35
Birthright citizenship is established in the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution – yet Donald Trump’s recent…
1 year, 7 months ago
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee
Episode 141
In the first part of our two-part conversation on Madison’s Notes, we speak with Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton U…
1 year, 7 months ago
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
Episode 115
Today I’m speaking with Chryl Laird, Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park. We are discussing her…
1 year, 7 months ago
Cotton, Central Asia and the New Great Game
Episode 12
On this episode, rural sociologist Dr. Irna Hofman explores how Tajikistan’s cotton fields illuminate shifting power dynamics in Central Asia, histor…
1 year, 7 months ago
Postscript: All talk and no action? How political scientists respond to racism and authoritarianism?
Episode 32
After the murder of George Floyd, the United States had the largest protests in the nation’s history. Other public and private responses included cor…
1 year, 7 months ago
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 515
Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? Late Soviet Britain: Why Ma…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 38
Generations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and consequent fragmentation of power - across and within pol…
1 year, 7 months ago
Coup Attempts and Democratic Resistance: Lessons from Brazil
Episode 162
As Brazil moves toward trying former president Jair Bolsonaro for plotting a coup against democracy, the United States grapples with constitutional c…
1 year, 7 months ago
Christian Gerlach, "Conditions of Violence" (de Gruyter, 2024)
Episode 220
Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other …
1 year, 7 months ago
Jeffrey A. Lenowitz, "Constitutional Ratification Without Reason" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 241
Constitutional Ratification Without Reason (Oxford UP, 2022) focuses on constitutional ratification, the procedure in which a draft constitution is s…
1 year, 7 months ago