Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJohn Locke: The 17th Century Philosopher who Shaped American Thought
The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute for American Democracy presents a conversation with author and historian Claire Rydell Arcenas and Liam Julian, dir…
2 years, 2 months ago
Talking Revolution, with Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
There is broad scholarly agreement that our current political world owes much to what Thomas Paine was the first to call the "age of revolutions"—tha…
2 years, 3 months ago
What's the Deal with the Electoral College?
Perhaps no extant product of the U.S. Constitution has received more bipartisan animus than the Electoral College. Since 1800 there have been more th…
2 years, 4 months ago
Water and the West
Some 40 million people in the American West rely on water from the Colorado River. But the river’s flow has diminished, and those decreases will like…
2 years, 11 months ago
Inflation at Home: The Regional Perspective, with George W. Hammond
Episode three of the three-part series "The Economy: Inflation, the Fed, and You."
Inflation in America is happening for the first time in forty year…
3 years, 2 months ago
Understanding the Federal Reserve, with Louise Sheiner
Episode two of the three-part series "The Economy: Inflation, the Fed, and You."
Inflation in America is happening for the first time in forty years, …
3 years, 2 months ago
Why Inflation Happens, with John Cochrane
Episode one of the three-part series "The Economy: Inflation, the Fed, and You."
Inflation in America is happening for the first time in forty years.…
3 years, 2 months ago
Senator Dennis DeConcini: Eyewitness to History
In September 1981, Senator Dennis DeConcini, a Democrat from Arizona, supported President Ronald Reagan’s nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor as the fi…
3 years, 3 months ago