New Books in Politics and Polemics

Interviews with Authors of Politics and Polemics about their New Books

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Michael E. Sawyer, "Black Minded: The Political...
Sawyer examines Malcolm X's philosophical system, restoring his thinking to the pantheon of Black Radical Thought....
94 min
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Daniel S. Lucks, "Reconsidering Reagan: Racism,...
Daniel Lucks looks at Reagan’s approach to racial issues over the course of his political career...
39 min
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Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choi...
Ayres and Vars put forward creative and practical solutions, proposing legislative reform which will reduce gun deaths....
59 min
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Adrian Wooldridge, "The Wake-Up Call: Why the P...
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying...
70 min
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Kimberley Brownlee, "Being Sure of Each Other: ...
Brownlee contends that all humans have basic needs for human interaction. Since such needs are fundamental for survival, they should be regarded as a human right....
39 min
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Justin Gifford, "Revolution Or Death: The Life ...
Charismatic, brilliant, and courageous, Eldridge Cleaver built a base of power and influence that struck fear deep in the heart of White America...
72 min
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Mithu Sanyal, "Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo" (...
Sanyal covers the history of rape as well as of our divergent and misguided conceptions for it...
36 min
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Carl R. Trueman, "The Rise and Triumph of the M...
“My aim is to explain how and why a certain notion of the self has come to dominate the culture of the West,..."
122 min
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E. Chemerinsky and H. Gillman, "The Religion Cl...
Throughout American history, views on the proper relationship between the state and religion have been deeply divided...
35 min
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Vince Cable, "China: Engage!--Avoid The New Col...
Anyone doing business with China will have been shocked by the speed with which political and economic relations with Western, and some other, countries...
59 min
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D. G. Young, "Irony and Outrage: The Polarized ...
Young looks at two distinct genres of communication—irony and outrage—and their respective appeals to liberals and conservatives...
60 min
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Adam Kotsko, "Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Po...
Neoliberalism’s Demons posits we can best understand neoliberalism through the lens of political theology...
75 min
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Suraj Yengde, "Caste Matters" (India Viking, 2019)
At once a reflection on inequality and a call to arms, Caste Matters argues that until Dalits lay claim to power and Brahmins join hands against Brahminism to effect real transformation, caste will continue to matter...
50 min
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Michael C. Davis, "Making Hong Kong China: The ...
It is difficult to understand the pace or extent of the changes in Hong Kong since the protests began in June 2019...
81 min
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Jerome Slater, "Mythologies Without End: The US...
Slater takes stock of the conflict from its origins to the present day and argues that US policies in the region are largely a product of mythologies that are often flatly wrong...
72 min
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Saladin Ambar, "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Raci...
Ambar offers the first in-depth analysis of this important speech, illuminating its context and consequences.
88 min
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Conspiracy Theories are More Dangerous Than Eve...
Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump...
41 min
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R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of Peop...
Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump...
41 min
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David Vine, "The United States of War: A Global...
Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years...
63 min
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Kevin O'Leary, "Madison's Sorrow: Today's War o...
Arguing that the contemporary Republican Party is waging a counterrevolution against the core beliefs of the nation, journalist and scholar Kevin C. O’Leary cracks open American history to reveal the essence of America’s liberal heritage...
79 min
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Lisa Adkins, et al., "The Asset Economy" (Polit...
Inheritance, they claim, is no longer a 19th-century-style transmission of property titles after death but a “strategically timed transfer of funds that need to be leveraged and put to work in the speculative logic of the asset economy”....
30 min
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Connor Towne O’Neill, "Down Along with That Dev...
O’Neill takes a deep dive into American history, exposing the still-raging battles over monuments dedicated to one of the most notorious Confederate generals, Nathan Bedford Forrest...
59 min
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Hate in the Homeland: T...
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us...
71 min
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Conservatism is Always Evolving: A Discussion w...
For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity...
58 min
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Ian Buruma, "The Churchill Complex" (Penguin Pr...
Buruma offers a brilliant, witty journey through the "Special Relationship" between Britain and America that has done so much to shape the world, from World War II to Brexit...
54 min