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Season 1 Episode 1533
When Professor Asha Rangappa began posting online about the lessons she was teaching in the Yale University course on Russian intelligence and inform…
1 year, 4 months ago
Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1532
Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System (Doubleday, 2025) takes readers fro…
1 year, 4 months ago
Anthony C. Infanti, "The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America" (NYU Press, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1531
The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America (NYU Press, 2025) by Anthony C. Infanti documents how the American colonies used tax law to …
1 year, 5 months ago
Carol A. Heimer, "Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1530
HIV emerged in the world at a time when medicine and healthcare were undergoing two major transformations: globalization and a turn toward legally in…
1 year, 5 months ago
S4 E40 Interpretations of the Second Amendment: A Conversation with Joel Alicea
Season 1 Episode 1529
The Supreme Court’s ruling in 2022 changed the established methodology for evaluating Second Amendment cases. What was the existing methodology, and …
1 year, 5 months ago
Postcript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
Season 1 Episode 1528
We’ve been focusing on the dynamics of democratic backsliding in the United States and beyond. In this episode of Postscript: Conversations on Politi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell
Season 1 Episode 151
In this episode of Madison’s Notes, Michael McConnell examines the gap between the Founders’ vision of a limited presidency and today’s expansive exe…
1 year, 5 months ago
Nicholas Barry et al., "Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics" (Routledge, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 767
Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics (Routledge, 2025) is an excellent edited volume exploring the various ways in which gove…
1 year, 5 months ago
Tamara Lea Spira, "Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times" (U California Press, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 252
Envisioning queer futures where we lovingly wager everything for the world's children, the planet, and all living beings against all odds, and in inc…
1 year, 5 months ago
Dionne Koller, "More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport" (U California Press, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 291
Tens of millions of children in the United States participate in youth sport, a pastime widely believed to be part of a good childhood. Yet most chil…
1 year, 5 months ago