New Books in Politics and Polemics
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Julia Maskivker, "The Duty to Vote" (Oxford UP,...
When asked what democracy is, many of us instantly think of elections, and thus voting...
62 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
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Srdja Popovic, "Blueprint for Revolution" (Spie...
20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally.
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Patricia Roberts-Miller, "Demagoguery and Democ...
When you think of the word “demagogue,” what comes to mind?
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "San Francisco Year Zero" ...
1978 was the year that changed San Francisco forever..
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Elizabeth Bernstein, "Brokered Subjects: Sex, T...
Bernstein provides an overview of feminist discourse on sex trafficking from its earliest incarnations,
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Richard J. Bernstein, "Why Read Hannah Arendt N...
Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today...
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David McCraw, "Truth in Our Times: Inside the F...
The First Amendment and a strong Fourth Estate are essential to a healthy democracy...
33 min
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Dana Fisher, "American Resistance: From the Wom...
"American Resistance" follows activists from the streets back to their congressional districts around the country...
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Eyal Mayroz, "Reluctant Interveners: America's ...
Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?
58 min
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Mary Anne Franks, “The Cult of the Constitution...
Franks asks whether our country's faith and belief in the Constitution amounts to something like a cult,..
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Robert Mann, "Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise ...
Throughout much of his career as an actor in Hollywood, Ronald Reagan identified as a passionate New Deal Democrat...
50 min
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Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige, "The Oba...
"The Obama Legacy" covers the domestic and foreign policy attempts, failures, and achievements...
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Quassim Cassam, "Conspiracy Theories" (Polity, ...
Cassam explains how conspiracy theories are different from ordinary theories about conspiracies...
56 min
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Robert Talisse, "Overdoing Democracy: Why We Mu...
Talisse argues that contrary to what many democratic theorists have argued, democracy is something we can do too much of...
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Anne Nelson, "Shadow Network: Media, Money, and...
What is the most important organization you’ve never heard of?
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Susan Neiman, “Learning from the Germans: Race ...
How did Germany deal with the Nazi past?
82 min
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L. A. Kauffman, "How to Read a Protest: The Art...
When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women’s Marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising...
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
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Zoltan Hajnal, "Dangerously Divided: How Race a...
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...
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Nicholas Buccola, "The Fire Is Upon Us: James B...
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...
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Jonathan Haidt, "The Coddling of the American M...
We say on this show all the time that democracy is hard work. But what does that really mean?
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Greta de Jong, "You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southern...
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...
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Anthony Kronman, "The Assault on American Excel...
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...
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Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: ...
Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...
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