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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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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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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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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
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F. H. Buckley, "American Secession: The Looming...
If small is beautiful, and smaller nations tend to be happier, why shouldn't a state like California secede and put its savings from national defence into a scheme for national health?
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Barry C. Lynn, "Liberty From All Masters: The N...
Yet Americans are only now awakening to what is perhaps the gravest domestic threat to our liberties in a century—in the form of an extreme and fast-growing concentration of economic power. Monopolists today control almost every corner of the American economy...
55 min
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John Yoo, "Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fi...
Yoo argues that Trump has performed in a manner that the Constitution’s Framers would applaud.,,,
55 min
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Victor Pickard, "Democracy Without Journalism?:...
The mainstream American news media are not really free at all, but have been pressed into service over more than a century to generate profits for a few rich owners bent on selling eyeballs and ears to advertisers...
48 min
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Scott Laderman, "The 'Silent Majority' Speech: ...
On November 3, 1969 Richard M. Nixon addressed the nation in what would come to be known as “The Silent Majority Speech”...
66 min
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Heather Lende, "Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaska...
Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years...
62 min
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Richard L. Hasen, "Election Meltdown: Dirty Tri...
As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections....
41 min
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Robert Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aris...
Bartlett provides a stirring argument for the relevance of comic playwright Aristophanes as a serious political and philosophical thinker. In his translations of two lesser-known plays,..
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Michael Walzer, "A Foreign Policy for the Left"...
What is "Left" foreign policy? Michael Walzer explains...
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Elisabeth Paquette, "Universal Emancipation: Ra...
What is Badiou’s theory of emancipation? For whom is this emancipation possible? Does emancipation entail an indifference to difference?
58 min
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Janet Jakobsen, "The Sex Obsession: Perversity ...
Why are Americans, and American politicians more specifically, obsessed with sex? Why, in the words of Janet Jakobsen, are gender and sexuality such riveting public policy concerns the United States?
54 min
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Spencer Critchley, "Patriots of Two Nations: Wh...
America is in a Cold Civil War, between people who see each other as threats to the country — but themselves as patriots. How can that be? They are patriots of two nations...
58 min
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Seth Masket, "Learning from Loss: The Democrats...
What happened to the Democratic Party after 2016?
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Joan Scott, "On the Judgment of History" (Colum...
Scott challenges us to question the persistence of structures of power and the very idea of the nation-state, while encouraging us to rethink whether there truly is such a thing as the judgment of history...
60 min