Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCaitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 76
Hate speech can happen anywhere - in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khakis shouted, "Jews will not replace us"; in Myanmar, where the …
4 years, 4 months ago
Dilek Kurban, "Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 22
Dilek Kurban’s Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict (Cambridge UP, 2020) considers the E…
4 years, 4 months ago
Elyn Saks, “Mental Health: Policies, Laws and Attitudes” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 79
Mental Health: Policies, Laws and Attitudes is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Elyn Saks, Orrin B. Evans Distingui…
4 years, 4 months ago
John A. Dearborn, "Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 552
Political Scientist John Dearborn’s new book, Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation (U Chicago Press, 2021), weaves together three c…
4 years, 4 months ago
Christine Schwöbel-Patel, "Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 50
Christine Schwöbel-Patel's Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law (Cambridge UP, 2021) is a critical study of …
4 years, 4 months ago
Postscript: The Supreme Court, Concealed Carry, and How Your Laws Might Change
Episode 9
The American media has been focused on the Supreme Court’s upcoming abortion cases but a decision in a critical Second Amendment case could overturn …
4 years, 4 months ago
Hongjian Wang, "Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation" (Cambria Press, 2020)
Episode 421
European Decadence, a controversial artistic movement that flourished mainly in late-nineteenth-century France and Britain, has inspired several gene…
4 years, 4 months ago
Anna Spain Bradley, "Human Choice in International Law" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 140
Professor Anna Spain Bradley "wrote this book to be accessible to anyone, because international law is for everyone." In this important book, Profess…
4 years, 4 months ago
Rebecca DeWolf, "Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict Over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1963" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Episode 555
In Political Science, we are very familiar with the work of scholars who try to unpack why the ERA failed to get the required states. But Gendered Ci…
4 years, 4 months ago
Julian Roberts, “Criminal Justice: An Examination” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 74
Criminal Justice: An Examination is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Julian Roberts, Professor of Criminology at th…
4 years, 4 months ago