New Books in Politics and Polemics
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Matthew D. Wright, "A Vindication of Politics: ...
Rancor reigns in American politics. It is possible these days to regard politics as an arena that enriches and ennobles?
100 min
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Rafael Medoff, "The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Fra...
Roosevelt could have bombed the camps and saved Jews. Why didn't he? It's a hard question....
58 min
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Adam Rutherford, "How to Argue With a Racist" (...
Rutherford emphatically dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference....
75 min
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J. E. Zelizer, "Burning Down the House: Newt Gi...
Trump is not the first Republican to rise to power by pushing incendiary policies and destroying opponents...
44 min
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Marc Sidwell, "The Long March: How the Left won...
How does culture shape political power?
65 min
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Bjorn Lomborg, "False Alarm: How Climate Change...
Dealing with climate change means trade offs. But which ones should we make?
51 min
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Lauren F. Klein, "An Archive of Taste: Race and...
Klein considers eating and early American aesthetics together, reframing the philosophical work of food and its meaning for the people who prepare, serve, and consume it...
48 min
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Robert G. Boatright and Valerie Sperling, "Trum...
How did the Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns affect other elections in 2016? How did the use of gender stereotypes and insulting references to women in the presidential campaign influence the way House and Senate candidates campaigned?
61 min
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John R. Hibbing, "The Securitarian Personality:...
What are the policy implications due to a fundamental distrust and dislike of “outsiders”?
43 min
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Jennie C. Ikuta, "Contesting Conformity: Democr...
It's good to buck the trend, right? Well, maybe...
55 min
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Allison L. Rowland, "Zoetropes and the Politics...
The way that we talk about living beings can raise or lower their perceived value...
57 min
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Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of...
Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries, leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today...
59 min
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S. Daulatzai and J. Rana, “With Stones in Our H...
The book focuses on the intersection of racecraft around Muslims and imperial projects of domination by gathering committed scholars and activists to reflect on how we’ve gotten here and how we can move forward...
76 min
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Post Script: Kamala Harris as Vice President
Today’s podcast – recorded on Wednesday, August 12th (less than 24 hours after Democratic candidate Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris as his Vice Presidential pick) – cuts through the hype of “veep stakes” by providing a deep dive....
57 min
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R. R. Reno, "Return of the Strong Gods: Nationa...
The populism and nationalism that are upending politics in America and Europe are a sign that after three generations, the postwar consensus is breaking down...
48 min
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Jeffrey J. Kripal, "The Flip: Epiphanies of Min...
Kripal offers an ambitious, visionary program for unifying the sciences and the humanities to expand our minds, open our hearts, and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the culture wars...
45 min
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Costas Lapavitsas, "The Left Case Against the E...
Lapavitsas contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts...
63 min
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Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf, "The War of Return...
Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no "right of return."
61 min
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Michael Rectenwald, "Beyond Woke" (New English ...
Rectenwald returns with his characteristic sharp wit and incisive analysis and continues to fine tune his critique of modern leftism...
61 min
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Saqib Iqbal Qureshi, "The Broken Contract: Maki...
Can we make democracy work? Really work?
68 min
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Amity Shlaes, "Great Society: A New History" (H...
Shlaes’ book is exquisitely well-timed. Now is the time to revisit the Great Society era and consider what worked and what ended up destroying poor neighborhoods and the lives of those in them...
56 min
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Hanne Herland, "New Left Tyranny" (Christian Pu...
Herland argues that the neo-Marxist New Left has turned their back on historical Western principles and became a destructive authoritarian force...
86 min
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God, The Founders, and Natural Law: A Conversat...
33 min
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Kevin Escudero, "Organizing While Undocumented:...
Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement....
67 min
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Mia Birdsong, "How We Show Up: Reclaiming Famil...
Birdsong returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity...
71 min