When you think of the word “demagogue,” what comes to mind?

1978 was the year that changed San Francisco forever..

Bernstein provides an overview of feminist discourse on sex trafficking from its earliest incarnations,

Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today...

The First Amendment and a strong Fourth Estate are essential to a healthy democracy...

"American Resistance" follows activists from the streets back to their congressional districts around the country...

Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?

Franks asks whether our country's faith and belief in the Constitution amounts to something like a cult,..

Throughout much of his career as an actor in Hollywood, Ronald Reagan identified as a passionate New Deal Democrat...

Cassam explains how conspiracy theories are different from ordinary theories about conspiracies...

"The Obama Legacy" covers the domestic and foreign policy attempts, failures, and achievements...

Talisse argues that contrary to what many democratic theorists have argued, democracy is something we can do too much of...

What is the most important organization you’ve never heard of?

How did Germany deal with the Nazi past?

When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women’s Marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Hajnal finds that race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses...

Buccola uses the iconic debate between Baldwin and Buckley which took place at the Cambridge Union in February 1965 as an entry point into their own lives and their place within the post black freedom struggle...

We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean?

Greta de Jong discusses rural organizing, social justice movements, and the connected histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty in the US South...

Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...

Kronman contends that this is a failure by faculty and administrators to provide students with the intellectual and moral challenges they need in order become a fully-formed human being...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Oropeza sheds new light on one of Chicano history’s most notorious figures...

Duina asks why impoverished Americans espouse such great and abiding love for their country even as they suffer and struggle to get by...