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James M. Banner, Jr., "Presidential Misconduct:...
What standard should be used to assess presidential misconduct during the Trump presidency?
49 min
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Tad DeLay, "Against: What Does the White Evang...
DeLay traces five zones of White Evangelical opposition: future, knowledge, sexuality, reality, and society...
63 min
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Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller, "The Po...
Blocher and Miller insist that the Second Amendment is widely recognized but fundamentally misunderstood by the public and public officials. Misconceptions about what the amendment allows, forbids, and how it function as law distort American debates and public policy.
46 min
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Meghan Daum, "The Problem With Everything: A Jo...
Feminist writer and author, Meghan Daum, says instead of following the crowd we need to think for ourselves...
28 min
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H. Appel, S. Whitley, C. Kline, "The Power of D...
62 min
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David Frum, "Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the...
The gradual shift away from those habits of democracy is one of the things that paved the way for the Trumpocracy that David writes about in his book...
41 min
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H. Suzanne Woods and L. A. Hahner, "Make Americ...
Woods and Hahner explore memes as a communication phenomenon with cultural effects with a specific focus on how memes circulated toward the end of the Trump campaign...
58 min
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Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latin...
Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos were imagined into a national electoral constituency...
50 min
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Stanley Fish, "The First: How to Think About Ha...
Fish discusses the popular and legal meanings of the First Amendment’s speech and religion clauses...
58 min
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Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration E...
Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States...
40 min
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Matt Grossmann, "Red State Blues: How the Conse...
Grossmann finds that, overall, the size of state governments was not reduced under conservative leadership...
32 min
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M. Schneider-Mayerson and B. R. Bellamy, "An Ec...
"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...
43 min
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Astra Taylor, "Democracy May Not Exist, But We’...
What is democracy?
38 min
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Davin Phoenix, "The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes ...
We know from this book that anger is animating politics, but the ways that anger is expressed and translated into political participation, varies greatly by race, gender, and age...
23 min
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David Brooks, "The Second Mountain: The Quest f...
There is a growing mismatch between the culture of many campuses, and the challenges young people will face in their careers, politics and personal live...
29 min
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William Westermeyer, "Back to America: Identity...
Westermeyer explores the once-powerful Tea Party Movement and the changing nature of political culture in the contemporary United States...
73 min
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Julia Neuberger, "Antisemitism: What It Is, Wha...
Anti-Semitic incidents, ranging from vandalism through murder, are on the rise in Great Britain, and across Europe and North America...
46 min
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Asma T. Uddin, "When Islam Is Not a Religion: I...
What happens when a religion is demonized to such an extent that it is no longer deemed a religion – but an ideology?
33 min
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Timothy J. Shaffer, "A Crisis of Civility? Poli...
There are a lot of calls these days to “revive civility” in politics...
37 min
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Stephen F. Knott, "The Lost Soul of the America...
Knott guides the reader through more than 200 years of presidents and the changes that these individuals have brought to the office itself...
43 min
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Alison Rowley, "Putin Kitsch in America" (McGil...
Rowley examines the outsized influence that Vladimir Putin, both the man and the myth, have had on US political discourse in the last decade....
66 min
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Chris Arnade, "Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back...
A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor?
24 min
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Vicky Pryce, "Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can'...
Free market capitalism has failed women...
27 min
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R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of Peop...
From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse...
37 min
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Daniel T. Kirsch, "Sold My Soul for a Student L...
American colleges and universities boasts an impressive legacy, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt....
27 min