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Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”
Episode 157
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions ev…
1 year, 8 months ago
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 727
This year, many countries around the world, including most of the world's most populous democracies, have consequential nation-wide elections. In man…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”
Episode 156
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions ev…
1 year, 8 months ago
Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”
Episode 155
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions ev…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
Episode 20
If ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as it appears to be today then, Jason Blakely argues in his …
1 year, 8 months ago
Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
Episode 28
Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. The path to this nomination and the generation electio…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Dragonbear in the Geopolitics of the 21st Century
Episode 225
What is the “dragonbear”? It is a metophor of an emerging strategic alliance between Russia and China. In this episdoe, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to ge…
1 year, 8 months ago
Rachel M. Scott, "Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 338
By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law: Religi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 40
Waging and winning a nuclear war have been called “thinking about the unthinkable” but that’s exactly what Edward Kaplan and I discussed in our inter…
1 year, 8 months ago
Politics in Action 2024: Myanmar Update
Episode 100
Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, …
1 year, 8 months ago