Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChristopher Miller, "The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 186
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his lat…
2 years, 10 months ago
Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy, "Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 402
Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been a…
2 years, 11 months ago
Is Democracy in Trouble?
Episode 1
How much do we need to worry about the global state of democracy? And what do we need to do to better understand what is happening in different parts…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ronan Bolton, "Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity Liberalisation in Europe" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 79
Ronan Bolton's book Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity Liberalisation in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) charts the emergence and ea…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ilkim Büke Okyar, "Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950: National Self and Non-National Other" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
Episode 223
The emergence of Turkish nationalism prior to World War I opened the way for various ethnic, religious, and cultural stereotypes to link the notion o…
2 years, 11 months ago
Penny M. Von Eschen, "Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 73
In Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989 (Duke University Press, 2022) Dr. Penny M. Von Eschen offers a sweepi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 396
For centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. B…
2 years, 11 months ago
Samuel Issacharoff, "Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 394
The 2016 election of Donald Trump focused people's minds on populism, and most of the attention paid to the subject since has been on the threat it p…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jade McGlynn, "Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 241
Why aren't ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin's own historical propaganda narratives, Russia's invasi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Serhii Plokhy, "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 179
Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war--and why…
2 years, 11 months ago