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When Should the Majority Rule – and is it time to resign democracy?
30 mins; September 16, 2025
“Plato and the Tyrant” with author James Romm
58 mins; September 13, 2025
Is the U.S. helping speed up its own decline? with Damon Linker
67 hours 49 mins; September 08, 2025
Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley, "Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution" (Stanford UP, 2025)
39 mins; September 08, 2025
Sarah McLaughlin, "Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
41 mins; September 07, 2025
Santiago Zabala, "Signs from the Future: Philosophy of Warnings" (Columbia UP, 2025)
53 mins; September 04, 2025
Maddalena Cerrato, "Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy: A Critique of Subjectivation Processes" (SUNY Press, 2025)
54 mins; September 02, 2025
David Edmonds, "Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need" (Princeton UP, 2025)
55 mins; September 01, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
69 hours 31 mins; September 01, 2025
Thane Gustafson, "Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 18 mins; August 29, 2025
Donald G. Nieman, "The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic" (Anthem Press, 2024)
53 mins; August 25, 2025
Nick Spencer, "The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About?" (Oxford UP, 2025)
38 mins; August 24, 2025
Todd Mcgowan, "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity" (Columbia UP, 2024)
65 hours 20 mins; August 20, 2025
Catherine Malabou, "Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy" (Polity Books, 2023)
46 mins; August 20, 2025
Alyssa Battistoni, "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
91 hours 59 mins; August 19, 2025
What Makes for Successful Civil Resistance?
37 mins; August 18, 2025
James Kimmel, Jr., "The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction—and How to Overcome It" (Random House, 2025)
52 mins; August 14, 2025
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)
75 hours 23 mins; August 14, 2025
Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers are Changing the World
57 mins; August 12, 2025
Ryan Griffiths, "The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work" (Oxford UP, 2025)
63 hours 52 mins; August 11, 2025
Alexandra Freidus, "Unequal Lessons: School Diversity and Educational Inequality in New York City" (NYU Press, 2025)
28 mins; August 10, 2025
Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space" (Viking, 2025)
68 hours 53 mins; August 08, 2025
154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson
46 mins; August 07, 2025
Heather Browning and Walter Veit, "What Are Zoos For?" (Policy Press, 2024)
90 hours 35 mins; August 05, 2025
Daniel José Gaztambide, "Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
62 hours 42 mins; August 03, 2025
Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politics After Globalization" (Polity Press, 2025)
58 mins; August 02, 2025
Camilla Fitzsimons, "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
33 mins; August 02, 2025
Linda Gordon, "Seven Social Movements That Changed America" (LIveright, 2025)
60 hours 33 mins; August 02, 2025
How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking Democracy
33 mins; July 31, 2025
On Bullshit in AI
20 mins; July 31, 2025
Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)
66 hours 33 mins; July 29, 2025
Mark R. Rank, "Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
41 mins; July 26, 2025
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
67 hours 28 mins; July 25, 2025
The Tug of War: Why Racial Progress Often Meets Resistance and Backlash
33 mins; July 25, 2025
James Cairns, "In Crisis, on Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2025)
48 mins; July 24, 2025
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" (Harper, 2025)
65 hours 13 mins; July 23, 2025
Linda Quiquivix, "Palestine 1492: A Report Back" (Wild Ox Books, 2024)
73 hours 57 mins; July 23, 2025
Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
52 mins; July 14, 2025
Savannah Mandel on an Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration
64 hours 35 mins; July 14, 2025
On Bullshit in Politics
33 mins; July 12, 2025
Carl Rhodes, "Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire" (Policy Press, 2025)
54 mins; July 11, 2025
Joseph Darda, "Gift and Grit: Race, Sports, and the Construction of Social Debt" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
73 hours 15 mins; July 07, 2025
Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)
55 mins; July 04, 2025
Paul Tucker, "Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order" (Princeton UP, 2024)
49 mins; July 04, 2025
Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox, "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)
55 mins; July 03, 2025
The attack on democracy in the United States, and the new resistance
39 mins; July 03, 2025
Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
58 mins; June 27, 2025
Nubar Hovsepian, "Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual" (AUC Press, 2025)
34 mins; June 26, 2025
David Zweig, "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions" (MIT Press, 2025)
57 mins; June 23, 2025
The Truth About Bullshit: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary Edition of On Bullshit with Pamela Hieronymi
36 mins; June 23, 2025
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
44 mins; June 20, 2025
A Book Imprint from The Nation Magazine Launches with Bhaskar Sunkara and Colin Robinson
40 mins; June 19, 2025
Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)
49 mins; June 10, 2025
Kevin B. Anderson, "The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism" (Verso, 2025)
64 hours 22 mins; June 09, 2025
Jaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
26 mins; June 01, 2025
Peter Allen, "How to Think about Politics: A Guide in Five Parts" (Oxford UP, 2025)
38 mins; May 31, 2025
Karida L. Brown, "The Battle for the Black Mind" (Legacy Lit, 2025)
63 hours 53 mins; May 30, 2025
The Telegraph Takeover: Power, Profit & the Press
56 mins; May 30, 2025
Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
54 mins; May 29, 2025
Keir Giles, "Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent" (Hurst & Co., 2024)
42 mins; May 29, 2025
Samuel Western, "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (UP of Kansas)
47 mins; May 28, 2025
How Do Autocrats Stay in Power: A Discussion with Johannes Gerschewski
34 mins; May 27, 2025
Dionne Koller, "More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport" (U California Press, 2025)
32 mins; May 24, 2025
Erin Pritchard, "Midgetism: The Exploitation and Discrimination of People with Dwarfism" (Routledge, 2023)
15 mins; May 23, 2025
Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
71 hours 39 mins; May 22, 2025
Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell
52 mins; May 21, 2025
The Price of Free Speech: Politics and Power on Campus
33 mins; May 20, 2025
Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
74 hours 54 mins; May 20, 2025
Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
55 mins; May 19, 2025
False Dawn: A Conversation with George Selgin on Recovering from the Great Depression
60 hours 16 mins; May 18, 2025
Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
35 mins; May 17, 2025
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
46 mins; May 16, 2025
Lara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)
73 hours 10 mins; May 15, 2025
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
64 hours 21 mins; May 14, 2025
Mark Fallon, "Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture" (Regan Arts, 2017)
52 mins; May 13, 2025
Democracy for Sale: Death by Dark Money
71 hours 4 mins; May 12, 2025
Threats to Universities and What We Can Do: A Conversation with Brandice Canes Wrone
60 hours 9 mins; May 11, 2025
Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
39 mins; May 10, 2025
Liz Pelly, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" (Atria, 2025)
89 hours 18 mins; May 09, 2025
"I have not Finished...": Rokahya Diallo on being Black, Muslim, and frequently interrupted (Emilie Diouf, JP)
48 mins; May 08, 2025
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
57 mins; May 07, 2025
Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives
39 mins; May 06, 2025
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
59 mins; May 05, 2025
Cynthia Enloe, "Twelve Feminist Lessons of War" (U California Press, 2023)
74 hours 32 mins; May 04, 2025
Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America" (Island Press, 2025)
47 mins; May 03, 2025
Claudia Rowe, "Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care" (Abrams Press, 2025)
71 hours 57 mins; May 02, 2025
Laleh Khalili, "Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy" (Profile Books, 2025)
75 hours 6 mins; May 01, 2025
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
55 mins; April 30, 2025
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
81 hours 22 mins; April 29, 2025
The Good Father Syndrome: Why Strongmen Still Seduce
32 mins; April 28, 2025
Emma Casey, "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" (Manchester UP, 2025)
36 mins; April 27, 2025
Steven Hahn, "Illiberal America: A History" (Norton, 2024)
51 mins; April 26, 2025
How to Found A College: A Conversation with University of Austin President Pano Kanelos
38 mins; April 26, 2025
Adam Kissel et al., "Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation" (Encounter Books, 2025)
50 mins; April 25, 2025
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
33 mins; April 24, 2025
Reginald K. Ellis et al., "Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation" (UP of Florida, 2025)
27 mins; April 23, 2025
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)
46 mins; April 22, 2025
Postscript: Political Scientists Ring Alarm Bell Over Trump’s Second Administration
42 mins; April 21, 2025
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
59 mins; April 20, 2025
Sophie Lewis, "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" (Haymarket Books, 2025)
92 hours 59 mins; April 19, 2025
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