Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchE. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 108
Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Criti…
2 years ago
Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 190
Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented eff…
2 years ago
Slavery and Islam
Season 1 Episode 19
In this episode, we talk to Professor Jonathan Brown about his book, Slavery and Islam.
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The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart
Season 1 Episode 123
In the latest episode of Madison’s Notes, we sit down with Dr. Paul DeHart, professor of Political Science at Texas State University and author of Th…
2 years ago
Eric R. Schlereth, "Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America" (UNC Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 1489
Perceptions of the United States as a nation of immigrants are so commonplace that its history as a nation of emigrants is forgotten. However, once t…
2 years ago
Gretchen Sisson, "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 242
Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the otherwise partis…
2 years ago
Talking Thai Politics: Kunthika Nutcharut, Defending Disruptors
Season 1 Episode 3
What is it like to be a human rights lawyer in Thailand? How does the new generation of 2020s political activists differ from those of previous eras?…
2 years ago
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 281
In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thous…
2 years ago
Frank R. Baumgartner, “Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 63
We recently marked the 50th Anniversary of Terry vs. Ohio, the US Supreme Court case that dramatically expanded the scope under which agents of the s…
2 years ago
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, "Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians" (NYU Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 742
What threatens American democracy and the rule of law? In her new book, Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politici…
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