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David H. McIntyre, "How to Think about Homeland...
The next evolution in improving homeland security is to analyze and evaluate various theories of bureaucratic change against the national-level catastrophic threats,,,
74 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?
54 min
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Sarah Marie Wiebe, "Everyday Exposure: Indigeno...
Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...
42 min
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Mila Dragojević, "Amoral Communities: Collectiv...
How does violence against civilians become permissible in wartime?
41 min
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James Gordon Finlayson, "The Habermas-Rawls Deb...
Finlayson traces their dispute from its inception in their earliest works to the 1995 exchange and its aftermath, as well as its legacy in contemporary debates...
121 min
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Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Man...
What are the true sources of inequality?
36 min
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Michael Romano and Todd Curry, "Creating the La...
Romano and Curry examine whether judges tailor their language in order to avoid retribution during their retention elections...
18 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...
25 min
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What are Empires and Why do they Matter?
You hear a lot about "empires," but what are they?
59 min
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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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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...
68 min
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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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Bert A. Rockman and Andrew Rudalevige, "The Oba...
"The Obama Legacy" covers the domestic and foreign policy attempts, failures, and achievements...
42 min
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Anne Nelson, "Shadow Network: Media, Money, and...
What is the most important organization you’ve never heard of?
21 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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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...
20 min
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Christian Sorace, "Afterlives of Chinese Commun...
What to make of the fact that China is ruled by a Communist Party which detains and arrests people studying Maoism, organising workers, or campaigning for women’s liberation...
59 min
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Samuel Goldman, "God’s Country: Christian Zioni...
Goldman has written a powerfully impressive new book on the long history of the political theology that he describes as “Christian Zionism"...
31 min
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Michael Mandelbaum, "The Rise and Fall of Peace...
In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...
52 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Joanna Lillis, "Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret...
Lillis paints a compelling picture of a nation that is still grappling with the consequences of Joseph Stalin’s devastating disruption...
58 min
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Naleli Morojele, "Women Political Leaders in Rw...
Rwanda and South Africa have some of the highest rates of women’s political representation in the world, with significant growth particularly in the last 20 years...
43 min
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Francesco Duina, "Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor...
Duina asks why impoverished Americans espouse such great and abiding love for their country even as they suffer and struggle to get by...
59 min
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Steven White, "World War II and American Racial...
Intriguingly, White shows that the white public's racial policy opinions largely DID NOT liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany
20 min
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Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh, "Citizenshi...
"Citizenship" takes the reader through our own approaches to this concept and begins by highlighting how it is not always or often consistently applied and understood...
41 min