Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 234
“It’s a free country.” Many of us recall saying that as children as we learned that we were American citizens who were endowed with certain rights—su…
2 years, 1 month ago
Megan Bradley et al., "IOM Unbound?: Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 233
It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migra…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jon Michaels and David Noll, "Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy" (Atria/One Signal, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 740
Law professors Jon Michaels and David Noll use their expertise to expose how state-supported forms of vigilantism are being deployed by MAGA Republic…
2 years, 1 month ago
Deepa Das Acevedo, "The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 356
The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India (Oxford UP, 2024) tells the story of one of contemporary India’s most cont…
2 years, 1 month ago
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 354
We commonly think of democracy as a social order governed by the people’s collective will. Given the size of the modern states, this picture is typic…
2 years, 1 month ago
Caterina Fugazzola, "Words Like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China" (Temple UP, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 68
After China officially “decriminalized” same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi, an inclusive identity term t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ethical Machines: A Conversation with Reid Blackman
Season 1 Episode 118
Join us as we discuss Dr. Reid Blackman’s new book: Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI (Harvard…
2 years, 1 month ago
David M. Driesen, "The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Season 1 Episode 738
At the end of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked whether we have a republic or a monarchy. He replied “A Repu…
2 years, 1 month ago
Gergely Gosztonyi, "Censorship from Plato to Social Media: The Complexity of Social Media’s Content Regulation and Moderation Practices" (Springer, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 225
In many countries, censorship, blocking of internet access and internet content for political purposes are still part of everyday life. Will filterin…
2 years, 1 month ago
Robert Polner and Michael Tubridy, "An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 259
In the city of New York from the 1930s to the 1990s, Irish attorney Paul O’Dwyer was a fierce and enduring presence in courtrooms, on picket lines, a…
2 years, 1 month ago