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Truth Matters: A Conversation with Robert P. George and Cornel West
46 mins; January 22, 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 15, 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
Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, "Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
85 hours 44 mins; January 06, 2025
Dean Itsuji Saranillio, "Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood" (Duke UP, 2018)
78 hours 48 mins; January 06, 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
Simon Miles, "Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2020)
76 hours 26 mins; January 04, 2025
Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)
65 hours 25 mins; January 04, 2025
Mike Madrid, "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
67 hours 56 mins; December 30, 2024
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
40 mins; December 25, 2024
Free Inquiry in the Academy and Beyond
55 mins; December 18, 2024
Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, "Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
34 mins; December 17, 2024
Robert Danisch, "Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
56 mins; December 14, 2024
Oliver Rosales, "Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley" (U Texas Press, 2024)
70 hours 45 mins; December 14, 2024
How to Tackle Political Violence
33 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
Melissa B. Jacoby, "Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal" (New Press, 2024)
49 mins; December 13, 2024
Jeremy Brecher, "The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
31 mins; December 10, 2024
Casey B. K. Dominguez, "Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers" (UP of Kansas, 2024)
58 mins; December 09, 2024
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
57 mins; December 08, 2024
Deondra Rose, "The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; December 07, 2024
Matthew Gardner Kelly, "Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
80 hours 14 mins; December 04, 2024
Terry H. Anderson, "Why the Nineties Matter" (Oxford UP, 2024)
52 mins; December 03, 2024
Carrie N. Baker, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
64 hours 2 mins; December 03, 2024
Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
75 hours 17 mins; December 02, 2024
Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, "The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
73 hours 41 mins; December 02, 2024
How Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense Affected the 2024 Presidential Campaign and Election
39 mins; December 01, 2024
Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
88 hours 49 mins; December 01, 2024
Olivia Chilcote, "Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians" (U Washington Press, 2024)
83 hours 54 mins; November 30, 2024
Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan: Can He Really Do It?
30 mins; November 28, 2024
Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah, "Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Marijuana in the United States" (NYU Press, 2024)
54 mins; November 28, 2024
Yii-Jan Lin, "Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration" (Yale UP, 2024)
48 mins; November 28, 2024
Nick Butler, "The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics" (Policy Press, 2023)
33 mins; November 27, 2024
W. Paul Reeve, et al., "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; November 26, 2024
Osamah F. Khalil, "A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden" (Harvard UP, 2024)
77 hours 39 mins; November 26, 2024
The Future of the Political Magazine: A Conversation with Ramesh Ponnuru
36 mins; November 25, 2024
Elizabeth Garner Masarik, "The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
66 hours 22 mins; November 24, 2024
The Secret Life of Central Bankers
71 hours 52 mins; November 24, 2024
Ronald Reagan Gave Us Punk Rock (with Vincent Brown)
21 mins; November 22, 2024
Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
47 mins; November 22, 2024
An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)
33 mins; November 21, 2024
Erica Benner, "Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power" (Penguin, 2024)
52 mins; November 21, 2024
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
97 hours 50 mins; November 21, 2024
Domingo Morel, "Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2023)
50 mins; November 19, 2024
Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)
63 hours 30 mins; November 18, 2024
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
37 mins; November 17, 2024
Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
68 hours 2 mins; November 16, 2024
D. M. Giangreco, "Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story" (Potomac Books, 2023)
71 hours 48 mins; November 15, 2024
Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election
63 hours 22 mins; November 14, 2024
The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
70 hours 21 mins; November 13, 2024
Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
58 mins; November 11, 2024
Todd Stern, "Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next" (MIT Press, 2024)
75 hours 46 mins; November 08, 2024
James M. Bradley, "Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician" (Oxford UP, 2024)
96 hours 59 mins; November 08, 2024
The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
49 mins; November 06, 2024
Aran Robert Shetterly, "Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul" (Amistad, 2024)
57 mins; November 06, 2024
Matthew Ferrence, "I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
38 mins; November 04, 2024
Anne M. Whitesell, "Living Off the Government?: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare" (NYU Press, 2024)
31 mins; November 03, 2024
Robert A. Schneider, "The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
57 mins; November 02, 2024
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
60 hours 1 min; November 01, 2024
Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
67 hours 19 mins; October 31, 2024
Is Democracy Failing to Deliver?
34 mins; October 31, 2024
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
61 hours 15 mins; October 30, 2024
Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)
86 hours 54 mins; October 29, 2024
Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
52 mins; October 29, 2024
Melissa Deckman, "The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
65 hours 24 mins; October 28, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
65 hours 56 mins; October 27, 2024
The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide
76 hours 40 mins; October 24, 2024
S4E11 Religion and Republic: A Conversation with Miles Smith
52 mins; October 23, 2024
Steven Levitsky, "Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All" (Crown, 2024)
44 mins; October 22, 2024
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
62 hours 7 mins; October 19, 2024
Jennifer Chudy, "Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
42 mins; October 18, 2024
Sarah M. Stitzlein, "Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era: Emphasizing Truth in the Education of Citizens" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; October 17, 2024
Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)
55 mins; October 17, 2024
Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)
44 mins; October 16, 2024
The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart
58 mins; October 16, 2024
Dan La Botz, "Riding with the Revolution: The American Left in the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1925" (Brill, 2024)
69 hours 45 mins; October 15, 2024
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
29 mins; October 15, 2024
Gretchen Sisson, "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
69 hours 14 mins; October 12, 2024
Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)
44 mins; October 12, 2024
Isaac Blacksin, "Conflicted: Making News from Global War" (Stanford UP, 2024)
64 hours 4 mins; October 10, 2024
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
81 hours 28 mins; October 09, 2024
Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
28 mins; October 07, 2024
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, "Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians" (NYU Press, 2024)
76 hours 41 mins; October 07, 2024
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
75 hours 19 mins; October 04, 2024
Jon Michaels and David Noll, "Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy" (Atria/One Signal, 2024)
81 hours 36 mins; October 03, 2024
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 8 mins; October 01, 2024
Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)
74 hours 43 mins; October 01, 2024
Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, "The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
72 hours 11 mins; September 30, 2024
Free Speech 70: Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters
76 hours 4 mins; September 28, 2024
Jeff Schuhrke, "Blue Collar Empire: Labor Internationalism, the Global Cold War, and the Untold History of the AFL-CIA" (Verso, 2024)
69 hours 0 mins; September 27, 2024
David L. Swartz, "The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity" (Routledge, 2024)
63 hours 35 mins; September 26, 2024
Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
59 mins; September 25, 2024
David M. Driesen, "The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power" (Stanford UP, 2021)
57 mins; September 23, 2024
William Cooper, "How America Works and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the US Political System" (Ad Lib, 2024)
37 mins; September 22, 2024
Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, "Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism" (Melville House, 2024)
70 hours 1 min; September 21, 2024
David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
59 mins; September 20, 2024
Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
68 hours 46 mins; September 19, 2024
Celebrating Constitution Day, Part. 2: A Conversation with Julia Mahoney
51 mins; September 18, 2024
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