Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMichael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 148
The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Gr…
1 year, 11 months ago
Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, "America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 181
What is happening to the politics of race in America?
In America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair (U Chicago Press, 2024), Rogers Smi…
2 years ago
Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt--A Three Level Analysis" (Brill, 2023)
Episode 261
Ahmed M. Abozaid’s Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt--A Three Level Analysis (Brill, 2023) introduces new non-Western perspectives on …
2 years ago
Lorenza B. Fontana, "Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 215
Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Lorenza B. Fontana is a pioneering…
2 years ago
Plutarch as Philosopher and Political Thinker: A Conversation with Hugh Liebert
Episode 104
Plutarch is one of history's most influential authors: his insights were foundational to thinkers ranging from William Shakespeare to Alexander Hamil…
2 years ago
D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 207
An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state--our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Ninete…
2 years ago
Words of Attack: Rhetoric Against Liberal Democratic Values with James McAdams
Episode 143
With a presidential campaign in the US just around the corner and populist and authoritarian thinkers gaining broader platforms, University of Notre …
2 years ago
Elliott Prasse-Freeman, "Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 143
Over three years have passed since a military coup of February 2021 in Myanmar precipitated a popular uprising that has since transformed into a revo…
2 years ago
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 713
Political Theorist Melvin L. Rogers has a deep and rich new book delving into the work of a host of different African American political thinkers. Bu…
2 years ago
Maria Snegovaya, "When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 30
In her new book, When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe (Oxford University Press, …
2 years ago