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New Books in Politics and Polemics
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Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
71 hours 14 mins; April 16, 2025
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
46 mins; April 16, 2025
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
75 hours 23 mins; April 15, 2025
Aaron Kupchik, "Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice" (NYU Press, 2025)
27 mins; April 14, 2025
Is Liberal Democracy Dying?
66 hours 42 mins; April 13, 2025
Pandemic Power: The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy - A Liberal Critique
65 hours 20 mins; April 12, 2025
What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions
53 mins; April 11, 2025
StÄle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
54 mins; April 10, 2025
Sam Wetherell, "Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
53 mins; April 09, 2025
Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)
96 hours 29 mins; April 08, 2025
Benjamin M. Studebaker, "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
64 hours 6 mins; April 07, 2025
Will Potter, "Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable" (City Lights Books, 2025)
38 mins; April 06, 2025
Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)
47 mins; April 05, 2025
Postscript: Collective Action to Support Students at American Colleges and Universities
47 mins; April 04, 2025
Jonathan Rauch, "Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy" (Yale UP, 2025)
53 mins; April 03, 2025
We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi
45 mins; April 02, 2025
Postscript: History, Narratives, and Political Power--An Emergency Oral History Project
46 mins; March 31, 2025
Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
44 mins; March 30, 2025
Human Rights in the Trump Era: A Conversation with Kenneth Roth
32 mins; March 26, 2025
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
77 hours 10 mins; March 25, 2025
Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025)
57 mins; March 25, 2025
Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship
43 mins; March 24, 2025
Royce Kurmelovs, "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil" (U Queensland Press, 2024)
34 mins; March 23, 2025
David Hollenbach, "Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
67 hours 56 mins; March 22, 2025
Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024)
30 mins; March 19, 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
52 mins; March 19, 2025
Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024)
43 mins; March 18, 2025
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
65 hours 57 mins; March 16, 2025
Postscript: Donald Trump is Erasing History – What YOU Can Do about it
18 mins; March 15, 2025
Postscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship
41 mins; March 14, 2025
Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
53 mins; March 13, 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee
45 mins; March 12, 2025
Postscript: All talk and no action? How political scientists respond to racism and authoritarianism?
64 hours 43 mins; March 10, 2025
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
64 hours 26 mins; March 10, 2025
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
95 hours 2 mins; March 09, 2025
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
62 hours 54 mins; March 08, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
46 mins; March 06, 2025
Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024)
65 hours 37 mins; March 04, 2025
Andrew Boyd, "I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor" (New Society, 2023)
50 mins; March 03, 2025
Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
58 mins; March 02, 2025
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)
55 mins; March 01, 2025
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores
62 hours 39 mins; February 27, 2025
Giampaolo Conte, "A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms" (Routledge, 2024)
24 mins; February 25, 2025
Postscript: How to Fight Back: Charting Opposition to the Actions of the Trump Administration
54 mins; February 24, 2025
Tabish Khair, "Literature Against Fundamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
78 hours 51 mins; February 22, 2025
Ethan Tapper, "How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World" (Broadleaf Books, 2024)
48 mins; February 22, 2025
Martyn Percy, "The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England" (Hurst, 2025)
49 mins; February 21, 2025
Patrick Riordan, "Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
49 mins; February 20, 2025
Trump, Anti-DEI and Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms
47 mins; February 18, 2025
Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)
28 mins; February 18, 2025
René Reinhold Schallegger, "A New Virtual Ethics: Interconnectedness and Interrelationality in Videogames" (McFarland, 2024)
40 mins; February 14, 2025
Alpa Shah, "The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India" (OR Books, 2024)
42 mins; February 13, 2025
Rebecca Haw Allensworth, "The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong" (Harvard UP, 2025)
55 mins; February 12, 2025
American Higher Education Under the Second Trump Administration
32 mins; February 11, 2025
Shoumita Dasgupta, "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA" (U California Press, 2025)
59 mins; February 10, 2025
Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)
64 hours 2 mins; February 10, 2025
"Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations" (Fernwood Publishing, 2024)
53 mins; February 09, 2025
MartĂ­n Alberto Gonzalez, "Why You Always So Political?: The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students in Higher Education" (Viva Oxnard, 2023)
78 hours 3 mins; February 08, 2025
Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)
62 hours 20 mins; February 08, 2025
Zahi Zalloua, "The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
41 mins; February 07, 2025
Corinne Mitsuye Sugino, "Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
47 mins; February 07, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
56 mins; February 06, 2025
Vittorio Bufacchi, "Why Cicero Matters" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
67 hours 45 mins; February 04, 2025
Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
59 mins; February 04, 2025
Mirca Madianou, "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful" (Polity, 2024)
65 hours 47 mins; February 01, 2025
Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024)
36 mins; January 29, 2025
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; January 28, 2025
142* Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy (EF, JP)
34 mins; January 23, 2025
Andy Wightman, "The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it" (Birlinn, 2025)
57 mins; January 22, 2025
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
41 mins; January 20, 2025
Brigid Schulte, "Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life" (Henry Holt, 2024)
63 hours 39 mins; January 20, 2025
August H. Nimtz and Kyle A. Edwards, "The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution" (Brill, 2024)
102 hours 19 mins; January 17, 2025
Congressional Deliberation: A Conversation with Kevin J. Burns and Jordan T. Cash
56 mins; January 16, 2025
Alva Gotby, "Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing" (Verso, 2025)
54 mins; January 16, 2025
Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)
65 hours 34 mins; January 15, 2025
Anthony Walton, "The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation" (David R. Godine, 2024)
54 mins; January 15, 2025
Nancy Reddy, "The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
51 mins; January 13, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
75 hours 44 mins; January 11, 2025
Matthew McManus, "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" (Routledge, 2024)
87 hours 42 mins; January 11, 2025
Jonathon Wilson-Hartgrove, "White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy" (Liveright, 2024)
53 mins; January 10, 2025
Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
64 hours 7 mins; January 09, 2025
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
62 hours 13 mins; January 07, 2025
Devin Fergus, “Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class” (Oxford UP, 2018)
45 mins; January 05, 2025
Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)
65 hours 25 mins; January 04, 2025
Victor D. Cha, "The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea" (Columbia UP, 2024)
45 mins; January 02, 2025
Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
52 mins; December 26, 2024
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
40 mins; December 25, 2024
Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022)
99 hours 48 mins; December 25, 2024
Matt Beane, "The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines" (HarperCollins, 2024)
90 hours 1 min; December 23, 2024
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
38 mins; December 23, 2024
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023)
51 mins; December 22, 2024
Ulises Ali Mejias and Nick Couldry, "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
62 hours 57 mins; December 21, 2024
Free Inquiry in the Academy and Beyond
55 mins; December 18, 2024
Sara Cantillon et al., "Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective" (Agenda, 2023)
32 mins; December 16, 2024
Postscript: Violence, Consent, and Coercion in American Football
81 hours 26 mins; December 16, 2024
Robert Danisch, "Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
56 mins; December 14, 2024
Melissa B. Jacoby, "Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal" (New Press, 2024)
49 mins; December 13, 2024
Toby Manning, "Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music" (Repeater, 2024)
21 mins; December 13, 2024
Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024)
48 mins; December 13, 2024
S4E18 Who Cares? A Conversation with Emily Kenway
52 mins; December 11, 2024
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