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Atinuke O. Adediran, "Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
33 mins; June 19, 2025
Prema Kurien, "Claiming Citizenship: Race, Religion, and Political Mobilization Among New Americans" (Oxford UP, 2025)
39 mins; June 19, 2025
Rob Edwards, "Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls" (Stranger Comics, 2025)
33 mins; June 17, 2025
David Zweig, "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions" (MIT Press, 2025)
57 mins; June 12, 2025
Accents, Complex Identities, and Politics
42 mins; June 11, 2025
The Freedom Academy
57 mins; June 10, 2025
Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)
49 mins; June 09, 2025
Jeffrey P. Rogg, "The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
64 hours 58 mins; June 09, 2025
Stephan Kieninger, "Dynamic DĂ©tente: The United States and Europe, 1964-1975" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)
45 mins; June 07, 2025
NATO, the Indo-Pacific, and the Future of Burden-Sharing: A Conversation with Brian Blankenship
47 mins; June 07, 2025
Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)
62 hours 39 mins; June 06, 2025
Jill Kastner and William C. Wohlforth, "A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 53 mins; June 06, 2025
James Graham Wilson, "America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
75 hours 7 mins; June 05, 2025
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, "The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2021)
85 hours 9 mins; June 03, 2025
S4 E40 Interpretations of the Second Amendment: A Conversation with Joel Alicea
39 mins; June 01, 2025
Jaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
26 mins; June 01, 2025
Karida L. Brown, "The Battle for the Black Mind" (Legacy Lit, 2025)
63 hours 53 mins; May 31, 2025
Michael D. Gambone, "The New Praetorians: American Veterans, Society, and Service from Vietnam to the Forever War" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
51 mins; May 31, 2025
Postcript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
44 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
False Dawn: A Conversation with George Selgin on Recovering from the Great Depression
60 hours 16 mins; May 29, 2025
William Haldeman, "Meeting the Moment: Inspiring Presidential Leadership That Transformed America" (SUNY Press, 2024)
25 mins; May 28, 2025
How Do Autocrats Stay in Power: A Discussion with Johannes Gerschewski
34 mins; May 27, 2025
Empire of Gain: Inside Trump’s Billion-Dollar Crypto Hustle
53 mins; May 23, 2025
Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman
89 hours 13 mins; May 22, 2025
Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell
52 mins; May 21, 2025
Nicholas Barry et al., "Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics" (Routledge, 2025)
51 mins; May 21, 2025
Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
57 mins; May 20, 2025
The Price of Free Speech: Politics and Power on Campus
33 mins; May 18, 2025
Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
74 hours 54 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
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
67 hours 45 mins; May 16, 2025
Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
30 mins; May 15, 2025
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
46 mins; May 14, 2025
Pollyanna Rhee, "Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
44 mins; May 13, 2025
Ken Conca, "After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; May 12, 2025
Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
73 hours 18 mins; May 11, 2025
Nolan L. Cabrera and Robert S. Chang, "Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
34 mins; May 10, 2025
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
57 mins; May 09, 2025
Threats to Universities and What We Can Do: A Conversation with Brandice Canes Wrone
60 hours 9 mins; May 08, 2025
Benjamin Schrader, "Fight to Live, Live to Fight Veteran Activism after War: Veteran Activism after War" (SUNY Press, 2019)
55 mins; May 07, 2025
Democracy for Sale: Death by Dark Money
71 hours 4 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
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
51 mins; May 04, 2025
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
59 mins; May 03, 2025
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
44 mins; May 02, 2025
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
49 mins; May 01, 2025
Institutional Corruption in News Media: A Conversation with William English
60 hours 55 mins; April 30, 2025
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
67 hours 52 mins; April 28, 2025
The Good Father Syndrome: Why Strongmen Still Seduce
32 mins; April 28, 2025
The Vote Gap: What’s Pulling Young Men and Women Apart?
55 mins; April 27, 2025
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
50 mins; April 26, 2025
Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
80 hours 48 mins; April 25, 2025
Steven Hahn, "Illiberal America: A History" (Norton, 2024)
51 mins; April 24, 2025
Postscript: Political Scientists Ring Alarm Bell Over Trump’s Second Administration
42 mins; April 21, 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 20, 2025
Michael Rosino, "Democracy Is Awkward: Grappling with Racism Inside American Grassroots Political Organizing" (UNC Press, 2025)
28 mins; April 17, 2025
Constitutional Private Law: A Conversation with Garrett West
53 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
Colleen A. Dunlavy, "Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S.into a Manufacturing Powerhouse" (Polity Press, 2024)
42 mins; April 14, 2025
Is Liberal Democracy Dying?
66 hours 42 mins; April 13, 2025
Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
51 mins; April 12, 2025
James Davison Hunter, "Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis" (Yale UP, 2024)
38 mins; April 09, 2025
Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
50 mins; April 08, 2025
Benjamin M. Studebaker, "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
64 hours 6 mins; April 07, 2025
Jonathan Rauch, "Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy" (Yale UP, 2025)
53 mins; April 04, 2025
Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
71 hours 44 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
Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
61 hours 11 mins; March 30, 2025
Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco" (U Nevada Press, 2025)
31 mins; March 27, 2025
Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship
43 mins; March 24, 2025
Human Rights in the Trump Era: A Conversation with Kenneth Roth
32 mins; March 24, 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
52 mins; March 19, 2025
Richard Buttny, "Unfracked: The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
48 mins; March 18, 2025
Luca Trenta, "The President's Kill List: Assassination and Us Foreign Policy Since 1945" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
63 hours 17 mins; March 17, 2025
Postscript: Donald Trump is Erasing History – What YOU Can Do about it
18 mins; March 14, 2025
Postscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship
41 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
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law--A Conversation with Janie Nitze
43 mins; March 05, 2025
Timothy P. R. Weaver, "Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City" (Temple UP, 2025)
29 mins; March 01, 2025
Religious Freedom: A Conversation on the Conservative Tradition with John D. Wilsey
44 mins; February 26, 2025
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
96 hours 9 mins; February 24, 2025
Postscript: How to Fight Back: Charting Opposition to the Actions of the Trump Administration
54 mins; February 24, 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
Lori A. Flores, "Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to Covid-19" (UNC Press, 2025)
79 hours 45 mins; February 18, 2025
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
82 hours 24 mins; February 18, 2025
Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)
58 mins; February 17, 2025
Samar Al-Bulushi, "War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror" (Stanford UP, 2024)
68 hours 44 mins; February 17, 2025
Allison Rank et al., "Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
51 mins; February 14, 2025
Rebecca Davis Gibbons, "The Hegemon's Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" (Cornell UP, 2022)
55 mins; February 11, 2025
American Higher Education Under the Second Trump Administration
32 mins; February 11, 2025
Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 9 mins; February 08, 2025
Trump’s Second Term and Europe: Nationalism, NATO, and the Future of Transatlantic Relations
34 mins; February 03, 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
Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
53 mins; January 26, 2025
Adam Jortner, "A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 54 mins; January 25, 2025
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