New Books in Politics and Polemics
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Paul Matzko, "The Radio Right" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Matzko details its emergence in the 1950s and the response to its rise by some of the leading political and religious institutions of the era...
51 min
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Yuval Levin, "A Time to Build" (Basic Books, 2020)
Americans are living through a social crisis, contends Yuval Levin...
61 min
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Matthew McManus, "The Rise of Post-Modern Conse...
Manus argues that Trump and other similar figures and movements represent a new form of conservatism, one with a long history of development, and formed as a response to various social dynamics...
46 min
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Antony Dapiran, "City on Fire: The Fight for Ho...
Hong Kong in 2019 was a city on fire. Anti-government protests, sparked by an ill-fated extradition bill sparked seven months of protest and civil unrest...
61 min
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Witold Szabłowski, "How to Feed a Dictator" (Pe...
If you’re a despot, there are two people you can’t lie to, your doctor and your chef...
62 min
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Danny Haiphong, "American Exceptionalism and Am...
According to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history...
76 min
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Yael Tamir, "Why Nationalism?" (Princeton UP, 2...
Tamir makes a passionate argument for a very different kind of nationalism—one that revives its participatory, creative, and egalitarian virtues, answers many of the problems caused by neoliberalism and hyperglobalism, and is essential to democracy at its best...
34 min
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Adam J. MacLeod, "The Age of Selfies: Reasoning...
Incivility in our public discourse is limiting our ability to get things done as a nation and preventing us from expressing ourselves in workplaces and classrooms for fear of offending those with real or imagined historical grievances or even merely strongly held views...
110 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Great Books: Melissa Schwartzberg on Rousseau's...
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
57 min
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Katherine Franke, "Repair: Redeeming the Promis...
Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality...
45 min
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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
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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
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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
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Samuel Gregg, "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle ...
So what is Western Civilization, anyway?
89 min
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
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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
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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...
87 min
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Brendan O’Neill, "Anti-Woke: Selected Essays" (...
In "Anti-Woke: Selected Essays," the ever-controversial Marxist Brendan O'Neill takes a cudgel to identity politics...
69 min