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Back to SearchNicholas Barry et al., "Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 767
Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics (Routledge, 2025) is an excellent edited volume exploring the various ways in which gove…
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Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 246
What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences?
Liberty as Independence: The Making a…
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Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
What has gone wrong with the left—and what leftists must do if they want to change politics, ethics, and minds. Leftists have long taught that people…
1 year, 1 month ago
Júlia Király, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
Episode 45
Donald Trump is putting liberal democracy through its greatest test in 80 years.
None of it is original. His style of rule is straight from the demo…
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Make Britain Great Again? The MAGA-Style Rise of Reform UK
Episode 11
Britain's Conservative Party is one of the oldest and most successful political parties in history. Local elections in the UK have signalled that the…
1 year, 1 month ago
Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe
Episode 266
What is the growing appeal of fascist idealism for young people? Why is radical nationalism on the rise in Europe and throughout the world? In Living…
1 year, 1 month ago
Democracy for Sale: Death by Dark Money
Episode 9
On this edition of Ctrl Alt Deceit: Democracy in Danger, we are live at the Royal United Services Institute.
Nina Dos Santos and Owen Bennett Jones a…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Good Father Syndrome: Why Strongmen Still Seduce
Episode 165
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey speaks with Stephen Hanson and Jeffrey Kopstein, co-authors of The Assault on the…
1 year, 2 months ago
Eleanor Paynter, "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 35
Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Eleanor Paynter responds to the cris…
1 year, 2 months ago
Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 527
Liberalism is in trouble. As a set of ideas, it has lost much of its historical authority in guiding public policy and personal behaviour. In this po…
1 year, 2 months ago