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New Books in Politics and Polemics
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Jason C. Bivins, "Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
35 mins; October 21, 2023
Diana Furchtgott-Roth on Serving In Four U.S. Presidential Administrations, Environmental Regulation, and Infrastructure
59 mins; October 21, 2023
Alexandre Baril, "Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide" (Temple UP, 2023)
70 hours 13 mins; October 20, 2023
TCJA, the CARES Act, inflation, and the debt limit
68 hours 1 min; October 19, 2023
Orisanmi Burton, "Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt" (U California Press, 2023)
52 mins; October 17, 2023
Tom Gallagher, "Europe's Leadership Famine: Portraits of Defiance and Decay 1950-2022" (Scotview, 2023)
50 mins; October 16, 2023
Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, "Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party" (Columbia UP, 2023)
40 mins; October 12, 2023
Mutual Aid and the Anarchist Radical Imagination
70 hours 51 mins; October 11, 2023
GĂŒltan KÄ±ĆŸanak, "The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison" (Pluto Press, 2022)
53 mins; October 10, 2023
Aurelian Craiutu, "Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
33 mins; October 09, 2023
Kendra Coulter, "Defending Animals: Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection" (MIT Press, 2023)
59 mins; October 08, 2023
Stephenie Foster and Susan A. Markham, "Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice" (Routledge, 2023)
34 mins; October 07, 2023
S. D. Chrostowska, "Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2021)
56 mins; October 06, 2023
James N. Druckman and Elizabeth A. Sharrow, "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
88 hours 1 min; October 05, 2023
Ronna Detrick, "Rewriting Eve: Claiming Women's Sacred Stories As Our Own" (She Writes Press, 2023)
53 mins; October 03, 2023
Emily McTernan, "On Taking Offence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
61 hours 17 mins; October 01, 2023
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
52 mins; September 30, 2023
Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)
78 hours 21 mins; September 25, 2023
Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)
78 hours 21 mins; September 25, 2023
Iqra Shagufta Cheema, ed., "The Other #MeToos" (Oxford UP, 2023)
38 mins; September 23, 2023
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
74 hours 23 mins; September 23, 2023
David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)
31 mins; September 21, 2023
David B. Wong, "Moral Relativism and Pluralism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
66 hours 44 mins; September 19, 2023
Daniel Jaffee, "Unbottled: The Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
55 mins; September 17, 2023
Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)
80 hours 4 mins; September 16, 2023
The Future of Anarchism: A Discussion with Ruth Kinna
37 mins; September 16, 2023
Christopher Paul Harris, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care" (Princeton UP, 2023)
33 mins; September 15, 2023
Matthew McManus, "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity" (Routledge, 2023)
30 mins; September 13, 2023
William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
37 mins; September 12, 2023
Gilberto Rosas, "Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
44 mins; September 12, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
34 mins; September 12, 2023
Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
62 hours 45 mins; September 11, 2023
Vincent W. Lloyd, "Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination" (Yale UP, 2022)
63 hours 5 mins; September 09, 2023
Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek, "After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time" (Verso, 2023)
48 mins; September 06, 2023
Kenneth J. Saltman, "The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers" (MIT Press, 2022)
40 mins; September 06, 2023
Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
35 mins; September 02, 2023
Ben Mattlin, "Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World" (Beacon, 2022)
39 mins; September 02, 2023
Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, "Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility" (Haymarket, 2023)
63 hours 45 mins; September 02, 2023
Who’s Afraid of the Catholic Integralists? (with Kevin Vallier)
59 mins; August 31, 2023
How Should Protestants Engage With Natural Law Theory?
48 mins; August 29, 2023
Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
36 mins; August 27, 2023
Marisa Holmes, "Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
47 mins; August 26, 2023
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
73 hours 23 mins; August 26, 2023
Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)
35 mins; August 23, 2023
PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event
62 hours 55 mins; August 23, 2023
Samuel Moyn, "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times" (Yale UP, 2023)
49 mins; August 19, 2023
The Future of Traditionalism: A Discussion with Mark J. Sedgwick
49 mins; August 18, 2023
Hans Kundnani, "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" (Hurst, 2023)
48 mins; August 17, 2023
In Praise of Reason: Why Rationality Matters for Democracy
14 mins; August 16, 2023
Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda
18 mins; August 15, 2023
Robert T. Tally, Jr., "For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism" (Zero Books, 2022)
113 hours 44 mins; August 14, 2023
Zahi Zalloua, "Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
63 hours 37 mins; August 11, 2023
Michael J. Diamond, "Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times" (Phoenix Publishing, 2022)
68 hours 38 mins; August 11, 2023
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
46 mins; August 07, 2023
Falguni A. Sheth, "Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab" (Oxford UP, 2022)
43 mins; August 04, 2023
Phil Klay, "Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War" (Penguin, 2022)
68 hours 24 mins; July 30, 2023
Rob Eschmann,, "When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2023)
75 hours 2 mins; July 29, 2023
The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That
80 hours 7 mins; July 28, 2023
Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
55 mins; July 26, 2023
Postscript: Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?
54 mins; July 24, 2023
Thomas Piketty on Capitalism and Inequality (Adaner Usmani, JP)
50 mins; July 20, 2023
Penny M. Von Eschen, "Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989" (Duke UP, 2022)
87 hours 26 mins; July 19, 2023
Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)
58 mins; July 18, 2023
Mere Natural Law: A Conversation with Hadley Arkes
64 hours 52 mins; July 18, 2023
Brendan O'Brien, "Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It" (Chicago Review Press, 2023)
37 mins; July 18, 2023
Juliet Schor, "After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back" (U California Press, 2021)
57 mins; July 17, 2023
Stephen Bright and James Kwak, "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts" (The New Press, 2023)
46 mins; July 15, 2023
Marco Grasso, "From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
35 mins; July 13, 2023
J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
57 mins; July 12, 2023
Emily Flitter, "The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America" (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2022)
57 mins; July 11, 2023
Marcos GonzĂĄlez Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)
43 mins; July 08, 2023
Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
55 mins; July 07, 2023
Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox, "Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)
54 mins; July 05, 2023
Mikhail Shishkin, "My Russia: War Or Peace?" (RiverRun Press, 2023)
40 mins; July 05, 2023
Simon N. Whitney, "From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It" (Rivertowns Books, 2023)
34 mins; July 04, 2023
The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo
53 mins; July 03, 2023
Ricardo Tranjan, "The Tenant Class" (Between the Lines, 2023)
67 hours 36 mins; July 02, 2023
Kevin J. Elliott, "Democracy for Busy People" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
66 hours 43 mins; July 01, 2023
Why Do So Many Young People Think the Unabomber was Right?
76 hours 2 mins; June 30, 2023
Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire, "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School" (The New Press, 2023)
44 mins; June 28, 2023
Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)
57 mins; June 27, 2023
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
36 mins; June 27, 2023
Stephen Vladeck, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic" (Basic Books, 2023)
62 hours 59 mins; June 26, 2023
Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
82 hours 18 mins; June 25, 2023
The Future of Leadership: A Discussion with Amanda Goodall
42 mins; June 24, 2023
Ngaire Naffine, "Criminal Law and the Man Problem" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
33 mins; June 23, 2023
Postscript: Politics, Identity, and the US Supreme Court
59 mins; June 23, 2023
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
55 mins; June 21, 2023
The Ascendance of Social Conservatism in the Public Square
55 mins; June 20, 2023
Nicole Wegner, "Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
50 mins; June 18, 2023
Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
76 hours 0 mins; June 15, 2023
Simon Sharpe, "Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
30 mins; June 14, 2023
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2023)
58 mins; June 13, 2023
Payal Arora et al., "Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
40 mins; June 12, 2023
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, "The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities" (Duke UP, 2023)
67 hours 53 mins; June 10, 2023
Doug Enaa Greene, "Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn: Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union" (Lexington, 2023)
59 mins; June 09, 2023
Joshua St. Pierre, "Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication" (U MIchigan Press, 2022)
43 mins; June 09, 2023
Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
36 mins; June 07, 2023
Feminism Against Progress: A Conversation with Mary Harrington
50 mins; June 06, 2023
The Future of Big Finance: A Discussion with Anastasia Nesvetailova
46 mins; June 03, 2023
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