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Back to SearchHali 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…
1 year, 4 months ago
Postcript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
Episode 1930
We’ve been focusing on the dynamics of democratic backsliding in the United States and beyond. In this episode of Postscript: Conversations on Politi…
1 year, 4 months 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…
1 year, 4 months 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…
1 year, 4 months 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…
1 year, 4 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…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 1925
How the United States' regulation of broadband pipelines, digital platforms, and data—together understood as “the cloud”—has eroded civil liberties, …
1 year, 4 months ago
Michael Buser, "Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context" (Policy Press, 2024)
Episode 1924
Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context (Policy Press, 2024) investigates and analyses places in Europe, N…
1 year, 4 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…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 207
The influence of partisan news is presumed to be powerful, but evidence for its effects on political elites is limited, often based more on anecdotes…
1 year, 4 months ago