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Samuel Issacharoff, "Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
55 mins; July 15, 2023
Nour Halabi, "Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
39 mins; July 13, 2023
Morgan L. W. Hazelton and Rachael K. Hinkle, "Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making" (UP Kansas, 2022)
55 mins; July 10, 2023
Brent Cebul, "Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
77 hours 37 mins; July 09, 2023
Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson, "Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture" (Texas A&M Press, 2013)
61 hours 42 mins; July 06, 2023
Studying the Pipeline to Politics for Women
65 hours 2 mins; July 06, 2023
Ben Terris, "The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind" (Twelve, 2023)
32 mins; July 05, 2023
Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox, "Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)
54 mins; July 05, 2023
The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo
53 mins; July 03, 2023
G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)
72 hours 53 mins; July 02, 2023
Kevin J. Elliott, "Democracy for Busy People" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
66 hours 43 mins; July 01, 2023
Michael O'Hanlon, "Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861" (Brookings, 2023)
38 mins; July 01, 2023
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
55 mins; June 29, 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
Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
59 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
Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
49 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
Josh Shepperd, "Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
65 hours 16 mins; June 26, 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
Craig Nelson, "V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II" (Scribner, 2023)
58 mins; June 24, 2023
The Future of Leadership: A Discussion with Amanda Goodall
42 mins; June 24, 2023
Erik Kojola, "Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range" (NYU Press, 2023)
31 mins; June 23, 2023
Postscript: Politics, Identity, and the US Supreme Court
59 mins; June 23, 2023
Samuel G. Freedman, "Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2023)
56 mins; June 21, 2023
Giulia Pecorella, "The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression" (Routledge, 2021)
59 mins; June 21, 2023
M. Todd Bennett, "Neither Confirm Nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency" (Columbia UP, 2022)
85 hours 35 mins; June 20, 2023
The Ascendance of Social Conservatism in the Public Square
55 mins; June 20, 2023
Frank Costigliola, "Kennan: A Life Between Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2023)
63 hours 2 mins; June 19, 2023
The Future of Politicized Narratives: A Discussion with Andreas Krieg
55 mins; June 13, 2023
The Rhetoric of Decline
19 mins; June 13, 2023
Patrick J. Charles, "Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
42 mins; June 10, 2023
Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
61 hours 4 mins; June 06, 2023
Feminism Against Progress: A Conversation with Mary Harrington
50 mins; June 06, 2023
Lorenzo Costaguta, "Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
52 mins; June 03, 2023
You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape
48 mins; June 02, 2023
Assessing Affirmative Action: A Conversation with Jason Riley
42 mins; May 29, 2023
The Hundred Year War for the American Right: A Conversation with Matthew Continetti
44 mins; May 25, 2023
Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism: A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi
54 mins; May 23, 2023
Rebecca Brückmann, "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
70 hours 42 mins; May 22, 2023
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
40 mins; May 22, 2023
Christopher H. Evans, "Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard" (Oxford UP, 2022)
59 mins; May 21, 2023
American Conservatism, Natural Law, and the Good Life: A Conversation with Robert P. George
66 hours 29 mins; May 20, 2023
Where Did Conservatism Go? A Conversation with Yoram Hazony
63 hours 48 mins; May 20, 2023
Kathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
64 hours 20 mins; May 19, 2023
America & Democracy Ep. 5: Brandon Terry on MLK
46 mins; May 19, 2023
Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein, "The Incommunicados" (Center for Study of Responsive Law, 2023)
26 mins; May 18, 2023
Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
53 mins; May 18, 2023
Misinformed: The Covid Lab Leak Theory and the Politics of Misinformation
63 hours 59 mins; May 17, 2023
Thom Shanker and Andrew Hoehn, "Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats" (Hachette Books, 2023)
63 hours 38 mins; May 17, 2023
America & Democracy Ep. 3: Carol A. Stabile on the Red Scare
42 mins; May 16, 2023
Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer, "The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
80 hours 33 mins; May 16, 2023
Matthew Rhodes-Purdy et al., "The Age of Discontent: Populism, Extremism, and Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Democracies" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
66 hours 44 mins; May 15, 2023
Recovering the American Idea with Robert P. George, Ryan Anderson, Alexandra DeSanctis, and Antonin Scalia
75 hours 57 mins; May 12, 2023
Maria L. Quintana, "Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
52 mins; May 12, 2023
Timothy Sandefur, "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Freedom in an Age of Darkness" (Cato Institute, 2022)
37 mins; May 11, 2023
The Primal Screams of Identity Politics: A Conversation with Mary Eberstadt
50 mins; May 11, 2023
The Politicization of Science: A Conversation with Dorian Abbot, Anna Krylov, David Romps, and Bernhardt Trout
62 hours 10 mins; May 10, 2023
Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America: A Conversation with Glenn Ellmers
48 mins; May 09, 2023
Gregory Harms, "No Politics, No Religion?: How America's Code of Conduct Conceals Our Unity" (Political Animal Press, 2022)
63 hours 13 mins; May 09, 2023
Christianity and the American Founding with Mark David Hall
56 mins; May 09, 2023
Kyla Sommers, "When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellion and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital" (New Press, 2023)
36 mins; May 08, 2023
Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi, "The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
82 hours 10 mins; May 07, 2023
Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
39 mins; May 07, 2023
Carceral Capitalism
24 mins; May 05, 2023
Reece Jones, "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall" (Beacon Press, 2021)
61 hours 43 mins; May 04, 2023
Journalistic Collaboration (JP)
52 mins; May 04, 2023
Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication
21 mins; May 03, 2023
Defending Academic Freedom: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
54 mins; May 02, 2023
Brian Domitrovic, "The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
43 mins; May 01, 2023
Andrew Walker, "Social Conservatism for the Common Good: A Protestant Engagement with Robert P. George" (Crossway, 2023)
49 mins; April 28, 2023
All Men Are Created Equal: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
65 hours 22 mins; April 27, 2023
Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
63 hours 30 mins; April 24, 2023
The Future of the Republican Party: A Conversation with Congressman Mike Gallagher '06
43 mins; April 23, 2023
Boomers: A Conversation with Helen Andrews
54 mins; April 22, 2023
Unalienable Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy: A Conversation with Secretary Pompeo and Ambassador Glendon
19 mins; April 20, 2023
George Washington and American Honor: A Conversation with Craig Bruce Smith
54 mins; April 19, 2023
Elizabeth S. Hurd and Winnifred F. Sullivan, "At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion" (Columbia UP, 2021)
44 mins; April 19, 2023
Benjamin E. Park, "American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
68 hours 42 mins; April 18, 2023
Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln: A Conversation with John Cribb
46 mins; April 18, 2023
Ryan M. Brooks, "Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
83 hours 11 mins; April 17, 2023
Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller, "Inequality across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
50 mins; April 16, 2023
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
62 hours 46 mins; April 15, 2023
Gregory J. Kaliss, "Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
60 hours 34 mins; April 14, 2023
Abortion and the Law
111 hours 59 mins; April 12, 2023
Lincoln at Gettysburg: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
55 mins; April 12, 2023
The Recovery of Family Life: A Conversation with Scott Yenor
51 mins; April 11, 2023
Live Not by Lies: A Conversation with Rod Dreher
58 mins; April 10, 2023
Howard Gillette, Jr., "The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
60 hours 58 mins; April 09, 2023
America at the Point of No Return? A Conversation with Michael Anton
50 mins; April 08, 2023
Judge Amy Coney Barrett on "The Constitution as Our Story"
61 hours 52 mins; April 07, 2023
Alan Blinder, "A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021" (Princeton UP, 2022)
59 mins; April 06, 2023
God, The Founders, and Natural Law: A Conversation with Phil Muñoz
33 mins; April 05, 2023
Abortion and the Pro-Life Movement: A Conversation with Alexandra DeSanctis
33 mins; April 05, 2023
Lincoln and the American Founding: A Conversation with Lucas Morel
47 mins; April 05, 2023
Carolyn Woods Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
55 mins; April 05, 2023
Jason Gilmore and Charles Rowling, "Exceptional Me: How Donald Trump Exploited the Discourse of American Exceptionalism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
32 mins; April 03, 2023
Land of Hope: A Conversation with Bill McClay
51 mins; March 31, 2023
Eric Alterman, "We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel" (Basic Book, 2022)
65 hours 8 mins; March 30, 2023
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