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Andrew Monaghan, "Dealing with the Russians" (P...
Monaghan argues that Western policy makers are using an outdated Cold War model of ideology, language and institutions, which is wholly unsuited for understanding, engaging, and countering where necessary Russia in the 21st century...
35 min
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Kenesha N. Grant, "The Great Migration and the ...
Grant analyses the impact of the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities, and how this changed the political dynamics in many of the places where African Americans settled and built new lives...
49 min
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Randy E. Barnett, "An Introduction to Constitut...
Want to know under what pretexts a local government can seize your house?
75 min
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Sonali Chakravarti, "Radical Enfranchisement in...
Chakravarti a thoughtful analysis of the role of the jury in American democracy, with specific attention to the way that the jury experience can provide the structure for more substantive civic engagement....
47 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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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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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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Abram Van Engen, "City on a Hill: A History of ...
Van Engen examines early American literature, the history of emotions, Puritanism, collective memory, and American Exceptionalism...
32 min
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David A. Bateman, "Disenfranchising Democracy: ...
Why was mass democratization – abolishing property and tax qualifications – accompanied by the mass disenfranchisement of black, male citizens?
52 min
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Ibrahim Fraihat, "Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming...
Fraihat builds a framework that initially could help Saudi Arabia and Iran prevent their conflict from spinning out of control, create mechanisms for communication and travel down a road of confidence building that could create building blocks for a resolution...
68 min
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Lucia Rubinelli, "Constituent Power: A History"...
48 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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María Cristina García, "The Refugee Challenge i...
García evaluates how the end of the Cold War brought new and unanticipated challenges to upholding this commitment from 1989 to the present...
62 min
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Yue Hou, "The Private Sector in Public Office: ...
In China, roughly 60% of GDP and 80% of employment comes from the private sector – yet half of private entrepreneurs report that they faced expropriation of property by local governments...
37 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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Peter La Chapelle, "I’d Fight the World: A Poli...
La Chapelle traces interactions between country music and politics beginning with two late nineteenth-century politicians who fiddled to their supporters and ending with the 2016 election season...
57 min
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David Kettler and Thomas Wheatland, "Learning F...
Kettler and Wheatland pays special attention to Neumann's efforts to break down the conventional divide between political theory and the empirical discipline of political science...
60 min
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Co-Authored: The Collaborative Multiracial Post...
The Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey or CMPS has brought together hundreds of scholars of racial and ethnic politics...
27 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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Sara E. Davies, "Containing Contagion: The Poli...
Davies explains how and why a duty to contain contagion at the source or within borders became central to the contemporary politics of disease control.,,
49 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