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Confederate Monuments with Kevin Levin
An interview with Kevin Levin
29 min
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Andrew R. Lewis, “The Rights Turn in Conservati...
Andrew R. Lewis is the author of the new book, The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Lewis is assistant professor of political science at the University of Cinc...
26 min
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Climate Change Skepticism with Lawrence Torcello
An interview with Lawrence Torcello
30 min
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Christopher Baylor, “First to the Party: The Gr...
Christopher Baylor is the author of First to the Party: The Group Origins of Political Transformations (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017). Baylor is an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.
20 min
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Claudia Leeb, “Power and Feminist Agency in Cap...
Claudia Leeb’s new book, Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism: Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject (Oxford University Press, 2017), takes up pressing issues within contemporary political and feminist theory,
50 min
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William J. Cooper, “The Lost Founding Father: J...
Over the course of a public career that stretched from the Washington administration to the Mexican-American War, John Quincy Adams became a living link to America’s revolutionary generation. In The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Trans...
62 min
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Ryan D. Enos, “The Space Between Us: Social Geo...
Ryan Enos is the author of The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Enos is associate professor of government at Harvard University. Scholars have long wrestled with the impact of segregation on politics.
22 min
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Free Speech and Free Thinking with Seana Shiffrin
An interview with Seana Shiffrin
27 min
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Astrid Noren-Nilsson, “Cambodia’s Second Kingdo...
Billed as “an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 reintroduction of a multiparty democratic system,” Cambodia’s Second Kingdom: Nation, Imagination,
43 min
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George Hawley, “Making Sense of the Alt-Right” ...
George Hawley has written Making Sense of the Alt-Right (Columbia University Press, 2017). Hawley is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama. He is the author of three previous books. From the start of this book,
20 min
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Alfred Moore, “Critical Elitism: Deliberation, ...
According to a challenge going back to Plato, democracy is unacceptable as a mode of political organization, because it distributes political power equally among those who are unequal in wisdom. Plato goes on to object that democracies are suspicious o...
61 min
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Heath Fogg Davis, “Beyond Trans: Does Gender Ma...
Why do we have sex-segregated restrooms? Are they necessary? What about your drivers license? Have you thought of why your designated sex category is listed, despite your picture and all other relevant information present? Heath Fogg Davis,
58 min
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Stephen Pimpare, “Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare ...
In Stephen Pimpare‘s new book, Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford University Press, 2017), the reader is encouraged to think about how we portray poverty and people in poverty in movies. Overall,
60 min
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Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen, “Daring De...
What is right about democracy? In Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want (Beacon Press, 2017), Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen seek out an answer. Lappe, author of the multimillion-selling Diet for a Small...
21 min
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Ruth Braunstein, “Prophets an Patriots: Faith i...
Ruth Braunstein is the author of Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy across the Political Divide (University of California Press, 2017). Braunstein is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut.
24 min
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Juilet Hooker, “Theorizing Race in the Americas...
In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere – the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist leader, and orator from the United States, Frederick Douglass – both published their first works.
53 min
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Daniel Bennett, “Defending Faith: The Politics ...
This week on the podcast, Daniel Bennet joins us to talk about his new book, Defending Faith: The Politics of the Christian Conservative Legal Movement (University Press of Kansas, 2017). Bennett is assistant professor of political science at John Brow...
19 min
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Lori Marso, “Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in...
Lori Marso’s new book, Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter (Duke University Press, 2017), delves into Simone de Beauvoir’s political thought, feminism, and activism. The text is a fascinating exploration of these topics and complexities,
65 min
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Timothy LaPira, “Revolving Door Lobbying: Publi...
Timothy LaPira and Herschel Thomas are the authors of Revolving Door Lobbying: Public Service, Private Influence, and the Unequal Representation of Interests (University Press of Kansas, 2017). LaPira is associate professor of political science at Jame...
30 min
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Ivan Ascher, “Portfolio Society: A Capitalist M...
Is Marx still relevant? Any social scientist will answer with a resounding yes! In what he refers to as a thought experiment, Ivan Ascher uses Marx to understand the financial market. In Portfolio Society: A Capitalist Mode of Prediction (Zone Books,
27 min
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Smart Democracy with Helene Landemore
An interview with Helene Landemore
23 min
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Tanya Ann Kennedy, “Historicizing Post-Discours...
Tanya Ann Kennedy‘s book, Historicizing Post-Discourses: Postfeminism and Postracialism in United States Culture (SUNY Press, 2017), is a complex and important exploration of our collective understanding of questions of racial and gender equality,
71 min
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Heather Silber Mohamed, “The New Americans? Imm...
The New Americans? Immigration, Protest, and The Politics of Latino Identity (University Press of Kansas, 2017) by Heather Silber Mohamed weaves together a number of different strands within the discipline of Political Science in context of the diverse...
47 min
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Justin Gest, “The New Minority: White Working C...
In our era of economic instability, rising inequality, and widespread immigration, complaints about fairness and life chances are coming from an interesting source: white people, specifically members of the working class.
39 min
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The Public Value of Philosophy with Nigel Warbu...
An interview with Nigel Warburton
27 min