Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 208
American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) analyzes the roots of widesprea…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 1527
How the United States' regulation of broadband pipelines, digital platforms, and data—together understood as “the cloud”—has eroded civil liberties, …
1 year, 5 months ago
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
Season 1 Episode 41
At the 100 day mark of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the political scientists at Bright Line Watch released their 25th report on the state…
1 year, 5 months ago
Lara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 66
In Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights (Duke University Press 2024), Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, pol…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 29
Policing is a source of perennial conflict and philosophical disagreement. Current political developments in the United States have only increased th…
1 year, 5 months ago
Mark Fallon, "Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture" (Regan Arts, 2017)
Season 1 Episode 115
From busting drug lords to leading the Pentagon task force charged with bringing the 9/11 terrorists to justice, Mark Fallon has spent his career on …
1 year, 5 months ago
Maïa Pal, "Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Season 1 Episode 65
With rigorous attention to history and empire, Maïa Pal's Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital (Cambridg…
1 year, 5 months ago
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 768
Since American president Donald Trump was elected to a second term, it is common to hear citizens, journalists, and public officials distinguish betw…
1 year, 6 months ago
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 767
In today's post-Roe v. Wade world, U.S. maternal mortality is on the rise and laws regarding contraception, involuntary sterilization, access to repr…
1 year, 6 months ago
Jeff Sebo, "The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why" (Norton, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1526
Today, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we prioritize humanity, often neglecting the welfare of a vast nu…
1 year, 6 months ago