New Books in Politics and Polemics
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Brian F. Harrison, "A Change is Gonna Come: How...
Harrison critiques many of the current methods of communicating and explores the growing divide within political discourse...
51 min
1202
Nick Estes, "Our History is the Future" (Verso,...
This second interview focuses more on a genocide studies reading of Dr. Estes’ book, raising questions about the history of genocide against Indigenous peoples, as well as Indigenous resistance and survival...
86 min
1203
Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, ...
Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement...
67 min
1204
Greg Burris, "The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media...
Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds?
64 min
1205
Evan Smith, "No Platform: A History of Anti-Fas...
The tactic of ‘no platforming’ has been used at British universities and colleges since the National Union of Students adopted the policy in the mid-1970s...
70 min
1206
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, "Grandstanding:...
We are all familiar with the ways in which the acts associated with upholding morality can go wrong....
65 min
1207
Katherine Stewart, "The Power Worshippers: Insi...
For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage....
58 min
1208
R. P. Saldin and S. M. Teles, "Never Trump: The...
Should we understand the conservative elites of #Never Trump as homogeneous and united? Failed renegades? Moral guardians of republicanism and values?
83 min
1209
Nancy MacLean, "Democracy in Chains: The Deep H...
MacLean tracks the development of a secretive political establishment—the capitalist radical right or “property supremacists”—working to alter the rules of democratic governance...
67 min
1210
Zerlina Maxwell, "The End of White Politics: Ho...
Maxwell shows exactly how and why progressives can lean into identity politics, empowering marginalized groups, and uniting under a common vision that will benefit us all...
72 min
1211
Pavlina Tcherneva, "The Case for a Job Guarante...
Tcherneva challenges us to imagine a world where the phantom of unemployment is banished and anyone who seeks decent, living-wage work can find it - guaranteed....
30 min
1212
Gerarldo Cadava, "The Hispanic Republican: The ...
Cadava illuminates the history of the millions of Hispanic Republicans who, since the 1960s, have had a significant impact on national politics...
59 min
1213
J. Bernstein and C. B. K. Dominguez, "The Makin...
A politics-lovers guide to the 2020 presidential nomination process...
38 min
1214
Luke Winslow, "American Catastrophe: Fundamenta...
Winslow offers a fresh, provocative, and insightful contribution to our most pressing social challenges by taking an orientation toward catastrophe....
69 min
1215
Phil Harvey, "Welfare For The Rich" (Post Hill ...
"Welfare for the Rich" is the first book to describe and analyze the many ways that federal and state governments provide handouts to millionaires, billionaires, and the companies they own and run...
49 min
1216
H. Moore and J. Tracy, "No Fascist USA!" (City ...
Hilary Moore and James Tracy recounts the stories of fearless organizers and activists who created an anti-racist social movement that fought against the normalization of white supremacy during the 1970s and 1980s...
66 min
1217
Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Vot...
Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?
46 min
1218
Shiu-Yin Sharon Yam, "Inconvenient Strangers: T...
Yam examines how three transnational groups—mainland Chinese maternal tourists, Southeast Asian migrant domestic workers, and South Asian permanent residents—engage with the existing citizenry and gain recognition through circulating personal narratives....
58 min
1219
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifesto...
Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from the nineteenth century to today...
52 min
1220
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
1221
Tyler Cowen, "Big Business: A Love Letter to an...
You mean big business is good, contributes to our general welfare, and is not generally guilty--with notable exceptions--of all of the charges made against it?
26 min
1222
Jennifer Mercieca, "Demagogue for President: Th...
Mercieca describes the Trump campaign’s expert use of the common demagogic rhetorical techniques...
51 min
1223
James Bernard Murphy, "How to Think Politically...
What is truly at stake in politics?
58 min
1224
Noëlle McAfee, "Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalys...
In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, already happened...
54 min
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T. Skocpol and C. Tervo, "Upending American Pol...
How can we make sense of the elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump?
65 min