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Back to SearchItamar Rabinovich, "Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs and the Region" (Brookings Institution Press, 2023)
Episode 104
Navigating through the intricate web of Middle Eastern geopolitics, few are better equipped to provide insights than Itamar Rabinovich in his compell…
2 years, 5 months ago
Scott Kamen, "From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Episode 236
For decades, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was perhaps the most influential multi-issue organization in American liberalism. The first book-l…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jeff Kosseff, "Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 200
Thanks to the First Amendment, Americans enjoy a rare privilege: the constitutional right to lie. And although controversial, they should continue to…
2 years, 5 months ago
From the Invention of the Passport to the Golden Passport
Episode 128
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Kristin Surak, professor at the London School of Economics, about her …
2 years, 5 months ago
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 678
The American public’s confidence in the United States Supreme Court is a historic low – in part based on a belief that the Supreme Court is increasin…
2 years, 5 months ago
Sparta, Athens, Ukraine, Israel: A Conversation with Paul Rahe on Proxy Wars
Episode 87
Proxy wars like those in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine have played major roles in military history. Historian Paul Rahe takes us back to one …
2 years, 5 months ago
Kevin Passmore, "Fascism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)
Episode 418
What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both?
Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jason C. Bivins, "Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 210
Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of…
2 years, 5 months ago
Allison M. Prasch, "The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 677
Allison M. Prasch, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a new book that focuses on the …
2 years, 6 months ago
The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren
Episode 82
The United States has long been associated with a very harsh criminal justice system with, in some cases, people serving long sentence for minor crim…
2 years, 6 months ago