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Back to SearchThe Democratic Regression: The Political Causes of Authoritarian Populism
Episode 17
Why are so many democracies experiencing the rise of authoritarian populism? And what can we do to address this? Join Nic Cheeseman as he talks to Ar…
1 year, 9 months ago
Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston, "The Political Development of American Debt Relief" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 184
A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizin…
1 year, 9 months ago
Shuchi Kapila, "Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
Episode 723
Shuchi Kapila, Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
Dr. Shuchi Kapila, Professor of English at Grinn…
1 year, 9 months ago
Donald Stoker, "Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 38
In our interview, I spoke with Donald Stoker about the changes in American grand strategy over the past 250 years and the major themes from his new b…
1 year, 9 months ago
Postscript: Unpacking the 2024 U.S. Presidential Debate, Conventions, and Polling
Episode 25
The first presidential debate will be held on June 27th, 2024 and the Republicans are heading to Milwaukee (a city Donald Trump recently called “horr…
1 year, 9 months ago
Hank Willenbrink, "Performing for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Age of Trump" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 226
From his overwhelming embrace by evangelicals and other people of faith to his championing of policies and conservative judicial candidates long soug…
1 year, 9 months ago
Andreas Fulda, "Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security" (Bloombury, 2024)
Episode 223
Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security (Bloomsbury, 2024) is a groundbreaking book, of which the findings ha…
1 year, 10 months ago
Postscript: The Supreme Court’s Decisions on Bump Stocks and Mifepristone
Episode 24
In this episode of our occasional series, Postscript, we focus on the Supreme Court’s recently published decisions in two cases, about guns and abort…
1 year, 10 months ago
Politics in Action 2024: Indonesia Update
Episode 95
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, 10 months ago
Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 214
In a pathbreaking retelling of the American experience, Aziz Rana shows that today’s reverential constitutional culture is a distinctively twentieth-…
1 year, 10 months ago