Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVlad Solomon, "State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain, 1880-1914" (Boydell Press, 2021)
Episode 1102
In 1850 Charles Dickens wrote that Great Britain had “no political police,” adding that “the most rabid demagogue” could speak out “without the terro…
4 years, 3 months ago
Sana Haroon, "Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Episode 252
In her multilayered and thoroughly researched new book The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship (I. B. Tauris…
4 years, 3 months ago
Dennis C. Rasmussen, "Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 558
When Americans conjure the image of the signing of the Constitution of the United States, they often think about the various paintings that depict th…
4 years, 3 months ago
Adam Bonica and Maya Sen, "The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 121
Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals - and America's powerful legal establishment - emphasized qualifications and …
4 years, 3 months ago
Matthew Stewart, “The Epicurean Republic” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 91
The Epicurean Republic is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and award-winning author and independent scholar Matthew Ste…
4 years, 4 months ago
Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese, "Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 142
Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese's Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work (Routledge, 2020) explores how predictive policing t…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Politics of Public Prosecution in Malaysia and the Problem of Corruption
Episode 44
On 16 August 2021, Muhyiddin Yaseen resigned as Prime Minister of Malaysia, with Ismail Sabri Yaakub sworn in as the new Prime Minister a week later,…
4 years, 4 months ago
Anna Saunders et al., "Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 173
In 1917, the adoption of the revolutionary Mexican Constitution and the October Revolution shook the foundations of international order in profound, …
4 years, 4 months ago
Don F. Selby, "Human Rights in Thailand" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Episode 23
Don F. Selby’s Human Rights in Thailand (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018) is a rich anthropological study of the emergence of human rights in Thailand at …
4 years, 4 months ago
Jennifer Carlson, "Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 559
When Americans talk about guns, they often use terms like “gun rights” or “gun control.” They also tend to separate gun politics and the politics of …
4 years, 4 months ago