Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDidi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1949
As the crisis of democratic capitalism sweeps the globe, The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't (Oxford University…
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Bridging History, Policy and Place with Bruce Harvey
Episode 1948
Bruce Harvey is a historian and photographer based in Syracuse, NY, who works at the intersection of memory, place, and public history. As an indepen…
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Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, "Why America Didn't Become Great Again" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 1947
Examining the conditions that not only blocked attempts to make America great again, but actively made the country worse, Why America Didn't Become G…
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Ross A. Kennedy, "The United States and the Origins of World War II in Europe" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
Episode 1945
The United States and the Origins of World War II in Europe (Taylor & Francis, 2025), spans 1914–1939 to provide a concise interpretation of the rol…
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Michael Grunwald, "We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
Episode 1944
Michael Grunwald is a well renown journalist, who over the last thirty years has focused on public policy and national politics, with the last fiftee…
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Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli, "Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025)
Episode 1946
Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world.…
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Elena Jackson Albarran, "Good Neighbor Empires: Children and Cultural Capital in the Americas" (Brill, 2024)
Episode 1943
A class of child artists in Mexico, a ship full of child refugees from Spain, classrooms of child pageant actors, and a pair of boy ambassadors revea…
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Milton E. Clarke, "The Community College Reform Movement: Contentions and Ideological Origins" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 1942
In his new book, The Community College Reform Movement: Contentions and Ideological Origins (Routledge, 2025), political scientist Milton Clarke crit…
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Claire Pierson, "Women's Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland" (Manchester University Press, 2025)
Episode 1941
How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of contemporary four…
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Atinuke O. Adediran, "Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1939
The 2020 murder of George Floyd sparked mass protests that challenged many institutions, including large for-profit companies, to reflect on how to a…
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