Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Future of World Disorder: A Discussion with Peter R. Neumann
Episode 86
Do confusions in the West threaten a new world disorder? It’s a question asked by Professor Peter R. Neumann of Kings College, London. He is the auth…
2 years, 5 months ago
Brendan J. Doherty, "Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Episode 685
Political Scientist Brendan Doherty has a new book that dives into the ways that presidents have raised money for themselves, their parties, and othe…
2 years, 5 months ago
Elizabeth Anderson, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 142
What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers' expense? Or does it advance policie…
2 years, 5 months ago
David Myer Temin, "Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 123
Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies in North America and Australasia, yet Native communities have made unique contribut…
2 years, 5 months ago
Juliet Hooker, "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 426
In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being …
2 years, 5 months ago
Eric M. Patashnik, "Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 170
The most successful policies not only solve problems. They also build supportive coalitions. Yet, sometimes, policies trigger backlash and mobilize o…
2 years, 5 months ago
Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
Episode 31
A longtime American foreign policy insider’s penetrating and definitive reckoning with this country’s involvement in the Middle East
The culmination o…
2 years, 5 months ago
Aditya Balasubramanian, "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 210
In Toward a Free Economy: Swantantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India (Princeton University Press, 2023), Aditya Balasubramanian charts th…
2 years, 5 months ago
Randy Laist, ed.. "The '80s Resurrected: Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now" (McFarland, 2023)
Episode 680
Randy Laist, professor of English at Goodwin University and the University of Bridgeport, has a new edited volume focusing specifically on popular cu…
2 years, 5 months ago
Malcolm D. Evans, "Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 54
How big a problem is torture? Are the right things being done to prevent it? Why does the UN appear at times to be so impotent in the face of it? Tac…
2 years, 5 months ago