Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCatriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024)
Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is th…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Hali Lee, "The Big We" (Zando - Sweet July Books, 2025)
Episode 7
Hali Lee's The Big We (Zando, 2025) offers a compelling counterpoint to traditional billionaire-driven philanthropy (which she dubs "Big Phil"). Inst…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Postcript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
We’ve been focusing on the dynamics of democratic backsliding in the United States and beyond. In this episode of Postscript: Conversations on Politi…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Tamara Lea Spira, "Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 252
Envisioning queer futures where we lovingly wager everything for the world's children, the planet, and all living beings against all odds, and in inc…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Dionne Koller, "More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 291
Tens of millions of children in the United States participate in youth sport, a pastime widely believed to be part of a good childhood. Yet most chil…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 253
The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Cornell UP, 2023) questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the o…
10 months ago
False Dawn: A Conversation with George Selgin on Recovering from the Great Depression
Episode 150
Join us on Madison's Notes as we sit down with George Selgin, senior fellow and director emeritus of the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Fin…
10 months ago
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
How the United States' regulation of broadband pipelines, digital platforms, and data—together understood as “the cloud”—has eroded civil liberties, …
10 months ago
Michael Buser, "Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context" (Policy Press, 2024)
Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context (Policy Press, 2024) investigates and analyses places in Europe, N…
10 months ago
Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Episode 208
American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) analyzes the roots of widesprea…
10 months ago