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Back to SearchMonika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 371
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material resea…
1 year, 9 months ago
Neil J. Young, "Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 724
Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right (U Chicago Press, 2024) is a fascinating and engaging historical tour of those who were gay and act…
1 year, 9 months ago
Miranda Melcher, "Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: The Importance of Specificity in Peace Treaties" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 99
Explaining how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties, this book offers a detailed examination of peace proc…
1 year, 9 months ago
Dmitri Alperovitch, "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
Episode 98
In his book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century (PublicAffairs, 2024), Dmitri Alperovitch (with Garrett M…
1 year, 9 months ago
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 137
We commonly think of trolls as anonymous online pranksters who hide behind clever avatars and screen names. In Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy…
1 year, 9 months ago
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 346
In political philosophy, “liberalism” is not the name of a particular social platform. Rather, it refers to a framework for thinking about politics. …
1 year, 9 months ago
Postscript: Does the June POTUS Debate Matter?
Episode 26
On Thursday, June 27th, President Joe Biden and Trump debated for 90 minutes without a live audience or the usually provided by the Commission on Pre…
1 year, 9 months ago
Nicolas Véron, "Europe's Banking Union at Ten: Unfinished Yet Transformative" (Bruegel, 2024)
Episode 34
In 2012, to stave off the collapse of their currency union, Europe’s leaders sought to end the so-called “doom loop” between the solvency of their go…
1 year, 9 months ago
Erin Lin, "When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 724
Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 500,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia—more than the combined weight of every man, woman, …
1 year, 9 months ago
Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)
Episode 720
Amy Schiller, who spent a number of years working in both political and major gift fundraising, has a new book detailing some of the fundamental prob…
1 year, 9 months ago