Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChris Stephen, "The Future of War Crimes Justice" (Melville House, 2024)
Episode 218
The Future of War Crimes Justice (Melville House, 2024), journalist and war correspondent Chris Stephen takes a colourful look at the erratic history…
2 years ago
Can the Constitution Still Unite Us?: A Conversation with Yuval Levin
Episode 107
During an era of broad political dissatisfaction, what is the history and role of the Constitution? Does the Constitution still have the power to uni…
2 years ago
Shelley X. Liu, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-War Statebuilding" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 717
Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Shelley X. Liu explores how wartime processes …
2 years ago
Javier Samper Vendrell, "The Seduction of Youth: Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Episode 89
The Weimar Republic is well-known for its gay rights movement and recent scholarship has demonstrated some of its contradictory elements. In his rece…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jennifer M. Black, "Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Episode 100
In the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds t…
2 years, 1 month ago
J. P. Messina, "Private Censorship" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 341
When we think of censorship, our minds might turn to state agencies exercising power to silence dissent. However, contemporary concerns about censors…
2 years, 1 month ago
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 61
David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the new book, The Constitution of the War on Drug…
2 years, 1 month ago
Leigh Gilmore, "The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 88
The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained respo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 364
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are rac…
2 years, 1 month ago
Egor Lazarev, "State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 266
State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Egor Lazarev explores the use …
2 years, 1 month ago