Great Books: Melissa Schwartzberg on Rousseau's...
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
57 min
1152
Mark Sedgwick, "Key Thinkers of the Radical Rig...
The resurgence of the radical Right in America and Europe has drawn attention to the existence of political philosophers and writers whose names are only sometimes familiar and whose thought is generally unknown...
64 min
1153
Margaret Randall, "I Never Left Home: Poet, Fem...
Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close...
47 min
1154
Charles J. Holden, "Republican Populist: Spiro ...
The authors present Agnew as a progenitor of the conservative populism associated today with America’s 45th president...
59 min
1155
David Swift, "A Left for Itself: Left-Wing Hobb...
wift argues that the left is dominated by what he terms hobbyists and performative radicals...
52 min
1156
K. Aronoff, et al., "A Planet to Win: Why We Ne...
In early 2019, freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Ed Markey proposed a bold new piece of legislation, now very well known as the Green New Deal.,,
102 min
1157
Max Blumenthal, "The Management of Savagery: Ho...
Blumenthal excavates the real, connected story behind the rise of Donald Trump, international jihad, Western ultra-nationalism and the many extremist forces that threaten peace across the globe: American imperialism...
82 min
1158
Katherine Franke, "Repair: Redeeming the Promis...
Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality...
45 min
1159
Matthew McManus and Marion Trejo, "Myth and May...
In 2016, Jordan Peterson, a relatively obscure professor of psychology, released several videos on YouTube making critical remarks on political correctness and related political legislation...
49 min
1160
Christine Fair, "In Their Own Words: Understand...
Fair reveals a little-known aspect of how LeT functions in Pakistan and beyond, by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated by Dar-ul-Andlus, the publishing wing of LeT..
87 min
1161
Samuel Gregg, "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle ...
So what is Western Civilization, anyway?
89 min
1162
Sir John Redwood, "We Don't Believe You: Why Po...
Redwood gives us fresh insights into why the populist movements and parties have been winning elections...
56 min
1163
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
1164
Tevi Troy, "Fight House: Rivalries in the White...
Troy examines some of the juiciest, nastiest, and most consequential internecine administration struggles in modern American history...
50 min
1165
Aleksandr Dugin, "Political Platonism: The Phil...
Dugin offers a seminal analysis of the contemporary philosophical crisis from one of the best-known writers and political commentators in post-Soviet Russia...
In "Anti-Woke: Selected Essays," the ever-controversial Marxist Brendan O'Neill takes a cudgel to identity politics...
69 min
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Dennis Baron, "What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He ...
Baron addresses an important cultural question about women’s rights and the rights and identities of non-binary people, and reveals how we got from he and she to zie, hir, and singular they...
41 min
1168
Benjamin Wittes, "Unmaking the Presidency: Dona...
According to Hennessey and Wittes, the "traditional" presidency is being replaced by the "expressive" presidency.
43 min
1169
Ann Coulter, "Resistance Is Futile!: How the Tr...
According to Coulter, the Left's response to Trump was a kind of collective madness...
49 min
1170
Andrew Milner, "Again, Dangerous Visions: Essay...
The essays address three substantive areas: the sociology of literature, cultural materialism and the cultural politics of the New Left, and utopian and science fiction studies..,
64 min
1171
Theda Skocpol, "Upending American Politics" (Ox...
Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties...
42 min
1172
Walter Nugent, "Color Coded: Party Politics in ...
Nugent provides a detailed analysis of each Western state’s modern political history...
49 min
1173
Steven D. Smith, "Pagans and Christians in the ...
What does an American political progressive in the 21st Century have in common with a pagan of ancient Rome?
65 min
1174
Olivier Roy, "Is Europe Christian?" (Oxford UP,...
What does the success of 1960s values mean for the reiteration of religious identities?
30 min
1175
Michael Rechtenwald, "Google Archipelago: The D...
Rechtenwald argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power...