New Books in Politics and Polemics
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Dennis Baron, "What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He ...
Baron addresses an important cultural question about women’s rights and the rights and identities of non-binary people, and reveals how we got from he and she to zie, hir, and singular they...
41 min
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Benjamin Wittes, "Unmaking the Presidency: Dona...
According to Hennessey and Wittes, the "traditional" presidency is being replaced by the "expressive" presidency.
43 min
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Ann Coulter, "Resistance Is Futile!: How the Tr...
According to Coulter, the Left's response to Trump was a kind of collective madness...
49 min
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Theda Skocpol, "Upending American Politics" (Ox...
Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties...
42 min
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Andrew Milner, "Again, Dangerous Visions: Essay...
The essays address three substantive areas: the sociology of literature, cultural materialism and the cultural politics of the New Left, and utopian and science fiction studies..,
64 min
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Walter Nugent, "Color Coded: Party Politics in ...
Nugent provides a detailed analysis of each Western state’s modern political history...
49 min
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Steven D. Smith, "Pagans and Christians in the ...
What does an American political progressive in the 21st Century have in common with a pagan of ancient Rome?
65 min
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Olivier Roy, "Is Europe Christian?" (Oxford UP,...
What does the success of 1960s values mean for the reiteration of religious identities?
30 min
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Michael Rechtenwald, "Google Archipelago: The D...
Rechtenwald argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power...
97 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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Douglas Murray, "The Madness of Crowds: Gender,...
Murray the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race...
71 min
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Daniel Skinner, "Medical Necessity: Health Care...
Skinner constructs a comprehensive understanding of the politics of defining medical necessity...
29 min
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Lee Drutman, "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop:...
Drutman dives into both the problems with the current political dynamic and the possible solutions...
36 min
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adrienne maree brown, "Pleasure Activism: The P...
brown defines pleasure activism as “the work we do to reclaim our whole, happy, and satisfiable selves from the impacts, delusions, and limitations of oppression and/or supremacy”...
17 min
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Rupert Lewis, "Marcus Garvey" (UP of West Indie...
Lewis documents the forging of Garvey’s remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914–1918)...
78 min
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Bari Weiss, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism" (Crown...
Anti-semitism is on the rise in the U.S. and other parts of the world...
30 min
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Kimberly Meltzer, “From News to Talk: The Expan...
From talking heads on cable news to hot takes online, there seems to be more opinion than ever in journalism these days...
54 min
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Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider, "Why Does Patr...
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider use psychoanalysis and psychology as frameworks for understanding the vexingly enduring power of this social structure...
40 min
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Gil Eyal, "The Crisis of Expertise" (Polity, 2019)
Eyal argues that what needs to be explained is not a one-sided “mistrust of experts” but the two-headed pushmi-pullyu of unprecedented reliance on science and expertise, on the one hand, coupled with increased skepticism and dismissal of scientific findings and expert opinion, on the other...
63 min
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Saladin Ambar, "Reconsidering American Politica...
Ambar has written a masterful examination and analysis of American political thought in this new book which does, in fact, reconsider our thinking about this particular branch of political theory...
39 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Eleanor Gordon-Smith, "Stop Being Reasonable: H...
With today's furious political and cultural divisions, it's easy to shake our heads in exasperation at those who disagree with us...
31 min
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Michael Menser, "We Decide!: Theories and Cases...
Menser a comprehensive treatment of participatory democracy, in which he delves into the history of democracy and offers an optimistic vision of the future of democratic participation in various forms and at different scales...
48 min
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Daniel Denvir, "All-American Nativism: How the ...
The profound forces of all-American nativism have, in fact, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that, for many people,..
40 min
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William Callison and Zachary Manfredi, "Mutant ...
The neoliberal consensus, once thought to be undefeatable, seems to have been broken both in the wake of the fiscal crisis of 2008, as well as a series of surprise movements and elections throughout the world in the last several years...
120 min