Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMark Gilbert, "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 33
Italy's resurrection from 20 years of fascism, three years of war, and two years of civil war is one of the 20th century's great, under-told stories.…
1 year, 10 months ago
What and Why are Political Beliefs? A Conversation with Oliver Traldi
Episode 111
What are political beliefs and how do we form them? Oliver Traldi, a current John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the James Madison P…
1 year, 10 months ago
Robert G. Boatright, "Reform and Retrenchment: A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 720
Until 1900, most political parties in the United States chose their leaders – either in back rooms with a few party elites making decisions or in con…
1 year, 10 months ago
Stephanie Ternullo, "How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 262
Over the past several decades, predominantly White, postindustrial cities in America’s agriculture and manufacturing centre have flipped from blue to…
1 year, 10 months ago
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Episode 109
Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba …
1 year, 10 months ago
Ibrahim Fraihat, "Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Episode 103
Ibrahim Fraihat’s latest book, Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) is much more than an exploration o…
1 year, 10 months ago
Gizem Zencirci, "The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
Episode 272
Since coming to power in 2002, Turkey’s governing party, the AKP, has made poverty relief a central part of their political program. In addition to n…
1 year, 10 months ago
Nicholas Tampio, ed., "Democracy and Education" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 231
John Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916) transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. This new edition makes Dewey's id…
1 year, 10 months ago
Naosuke Mukoyama, "Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 102
European colonialism was often driven by the pursuit of natural resources, and the resulting colonisation and decolonization processes have had a pro…
1 year, 10 months ago
We Should Not Take the UN For Granted: A Discussion with Abiodun Williams
Episode 148
In times where conflicts around the globe are an everyday topic, the place of the United Nations in resolving these conflicts is constantly being que…
1 year, 10 months ago