Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMaya Mikdashi, "Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 183
The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that gover…
3 years, 10 months ago
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Episode 144
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism h…
3 years, 10 months ago
Lisa Ford, "The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 1243
Dr. Lisa Ford, Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, is the author of prize-winning monographs and a luminary in the field of gl…
3 years, 10 months ago
Hawa Allan, "Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 315
The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off l…
3 years, 10 months ago
Paisley Currah, "Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 207
Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for se…
3 years, 10 months ago
International Association of Genocide Scholars
Episode 74
The International Association of Genocide Scholars is a global, interdisciplinary, non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teach…
3 years, 10 months ago
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedom" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 613
Freedom is often considered the cornerstone of the American political project. The 1776 revolutionaries declared it an inalienable right that could n…
3 years, 10 months ago
Samantha Power on Hannah Arendt and Human Rights
Episode 43
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, Samantha Power describes how Hannah Arendt influenced her thinking about politics and human rights. Power…
3 years, 10 months ago
Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth, "It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Episode 143
The protests of summer 2020 led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life …
3 years, 10 months ago
Exiled in America: About the Lives of Registered Sex Offenders
Episode 5
Before Darts and Letters there was a documentary series called Cited. This is one of those documentaries.
This episode is about the lives of sex offen…
3 years, 10 months ago