Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMatt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins, "Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 16
Over the past several decades, American society has experienced fundamental changes - from shifting relations between social groups and evolving lang…
1 year, 7 months ago
E. J. Fagan, "The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 733
Political Scientist E.J. Fagan, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, once worked at a think tank, an…
1 year, 7 months ago
Daniel Laqua, "Activism Across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and Beyond Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 36
From the Occupy protests to climate change school strikes and the Black Lives Matter movement, the 21st century has been rife with activism. Although…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jonathan Gienapp, "Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 232
The legal theory of constitutional originalism has attracted increasing attention in recent years as the US Supreme Court has tilted with the weight …
1 year, 7 months ago
David Lay Williams, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 734
Political Theorist David Lay Williams has a new book that traces the problem of economic inequality through the thought of many of the canonical thin…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanjay Lal, "Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy" (Lexington Books, 2019)
Episode 69
Is religion indispensable to public life? What can Gandhi’s thought contribute to the modern state? With an intense focus on both the depth and pract…
1 year, 7 months ago
Wendy Salkin, "Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 352
We are familiar with the idea of a formal representative, and perhaps the idea of a formal political representative readily comes to mind. Roughly, t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 56
In Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Manuela Moschella investiga…
1 year, 7 months ago
What is Going on with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?
Episode 20
After being the posterchild of democratization, today Central and Eastern Europe is often seen as the region of democratic backsliding. In this episo…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)
Episode 152
In The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality (Basic Books, 2020), Bhaskar Sunkara explores socialism's h…
1 year, 7 months ago