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Back to SearchChristopher Lazarski, "Lord Acton for Our Time" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
Episode 243
Extracting lessons for our current age, Christopher Lazarski focuses on liberty--how Acton understood it, what he thought was its foundation and nece…
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Robert P. George's 'Making Men Moral': A 30th Anniversary Conference
Episode 687
The first book in the storied career of one of the most influential conservative legal scholars and philosophers of our day is the focus of an upcomi…
2 years, 5 months ago
Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 138
Florentine Koppenborg’s Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance (Cornell UP, 2023) begins with the understated observation tha…
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Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 427
In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans’ fear of Black Nationalism and…
2 years, 5 months ago
Bálint Madlovics and Bálint Magyar, "The Russia-Ukraine War, Volumes 1-2" (CEU Press, 2023)
Episode 9
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast Series, host Bálint Madlovics sat down for a fascinating discussion on the impact of the war on Ukraine’s pa…
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Political Polarisation: Have We Got It Wrong?
Episode 6
What is political polarisation? How different is it from ‘normal’ democratic conflict? And why have we been getting it wrong? Listen to Andreas Sched…
2 years, 5 months ago
Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
Episode 686
Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women …
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Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
Episode 7
In 2002, John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira published The Emerging Democratic Majority (Scribner). Now the pair are back with Where Have All the Democrat…
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Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 423
The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. B…
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Eve Warburton, "Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 135
In Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State (Cornell UP, 2023), Eve Warburton traces nationalist policy trajectories in …
2 years, 5 months ago