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Democracy and Freedom: The Role of Philanthropy and Education
44 mins; November 23, 2025
Killian Clarke, "Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
65 hours 1 min; November 21, 2025
Emily Callaci, "Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor" (Seal Press, 2025)
46 mins; November 21, 2025
Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami
34 mins; November 20, 2025
160* Hannah Arendt's Refugee Politics (JP)
21 mins; November 20, 2025
Nicholas Buccola, "One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal" (Princeton UP, 2025)
75 hours 40 mins; November 19, 2025
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
54 mins; November 19, 2025
On Democracy and Bullshit with HÊlène Landemore
66 hours 15 mins; November 18, 2025
Lisa Vanhala, "Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
50 mins; November 12, 2025
Wolfgang Wagner, "The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions" (Oxford UP, 2020)
37 mins; November 10, 2025
Two Decades On: The African Union, Power, and Africa’s Democratic Future
36 mins; November 10, 2025
Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
87 hours 27 mins; November 09, 2025
Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)
43 mins; November 08, 2025
E. Alaverdov and M. W. Bari, "Cultural Heritage Protection and Restoration in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones" (IGI Global, 2025)
38 mins; November 08, 2025
What Democracy Does… and Does Not Do
29 mins; November 07, 2025
House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
55 mins; November 06, 2025
Jack B. Greenberg and John A. Dearborn, "Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
48 mins; November 05, 2025
Nancy Neiman, "Markets, Community and Just Infrastructures" (Routledge, 2020)
73 hours 59 mins; November 01, 2025
Natasha Piano, "Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science" (Harvard UP, 2025)
56 mins; November 01, 2025
Rachel Myrick, "Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability" (Princeton UP, 2025)
25 mins; November 01, 2025
Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
45 mins; October 31, 2025
Elif Kalaycioglu, "The Politics of World Heritage: Visions, Custodians, and Futures of Humanity" (Oxford UP, 2025)
58 mins; October 30, 2025
Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries
42 mins; October 28, 2025
Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism
75 hours 27 mins; October 27, 2025
Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
93 hours 30 mins; October 27, 2025
Michael Lazarus, "Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx" (Stanford UP, 2025)
67 hours 3 mins; October 26, 2025
Taru Salmenkari, "Global Ideas, Local Adaptations: Chinese Activism and the Will to Make Civil Society" (Edward Elgar, 2025)
43 mins; October 24, 2025
Hindutva and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India
19 mins; October 24, 2025
Matthew D. Nelsen, "The Color of Civics: Civic Education for a Multiracial Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; October 23, 2025
Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier, "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" (MIT Press, 2025)
43 mins; October 23, 2025
Aileen Teague, "Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)
55 mins; October 22, 2025
Yong-Shik Lee, "Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia" (Anthem Press, 2023)
62 hours 36 mins; October 22, 2025
JosĂŠ Marichal, "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem: Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract" (Policy Press, 2025)
32 mins; October 21, 2025
Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action​" (Haymarket, 2019)
43 mins; October 20, 2025
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
60 hours 9 mins; October 19, 2025
David Stasavage, "The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today" (Princeton UP, 2020)
39 mins; October 18, 2025
In Search of Green China: Ma Tianjie on Pan Yue and the CCP’s “Ecological Civilization"
76 hours 13 mins; October 18, 2025
Piotr Pietrzak, "Strengthening International Relations Through Transformative Theory and Practice" (Information Science Reference, 2025)
62 hours 46 mins; October 18, 2025
Gianna Englert, "Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage" (Oxford UP, 2024)
73 hours 5 mins; October 15, 2025
Gustav Meibauer, "The No-Fly Zone in US Foreign Policy: The Curious Persistence of a Flawed Instrument" (Policy Press, 2025)
48 mins; October 13, 2025
Naomi R. Williams, "A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 12, 2025
Kevin M. Schultz, "Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
86 hours 39 mins; October 10, 2025
Tyler Jost, "Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
49 mins; October 08, 2025
Joshua Eisenman and David H. Shinn, "China's Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement" (Columbia UP, 2023)
102 hours 23 mins; October 08, 2025
Xiaobo LĂź, "Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China's Republican Era" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
57 mins; October 07, 2025
Delivering for Democracy – Why results matter
32 mins; October 07, 2025
Emma Ashford, "First Among Equals: U. S. Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World" (Yale UP, 2025)
35 mins; October 05, 2025
Raymond J. McKoski, "David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
57 mins; October 03, 2025
Madison Schramm, "Why Democracies Fight Dictators" (Oxford UP, 2025)
54 mins; October 03, 2025
Luis L. Schenoni, "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
61 hours 30 mins; October 02, 2025
Michael Rowe, "Researching Street-Level Bureaucracy: Bringing Out the Interpretive Dimensions" (Routledge, 2024)
40 mins; October 01, 2025
Sasha Davis, "Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
28 mins; October 01, 2025
Kolby Hanson, "Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2025)
42 mins; September 29, 2025
Nicholas Micinski, "Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
60 hours 5 mins; September 28, 2025
Carol Atack, "Plato: A Civic Life" (Reaktion, 2025)
72 hours 55 mins; September 27, 2025
Timothy Williams, "Memory Politics After Mass Violence: Attributing Roles in the Memoryscape" (Bristol UP, 2025)
60 hours 8 mins; September 27, 2025
Gen Z Uprising: Youth, Protest and Political Change in Nepal
32 mins; September 26, 2025
Robert F. Carley, "Culture and Tactics: Gramsci, Race, and the Politics of Practice" (SUNY Press, 2019)
48 mins; September 23, 2025
Nicholas Bromell, "The Time is Always Now: Black Political Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2013)
60 hours 48 mins; September 23, 2025
Kenja McCray, "Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership" (NYU Press, 2025)
69 hours 54 mins; September 22, 2025
Tim Weiner, "The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century" (Mariner Books, 2025)
51 mins; September 22, 2025
Nicholas Jacobs and Sidney M. Milkis, "Subverting the Republic: Donald J. Trump and the Perils of Presidentialism" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
61 hours 30 mins; September 20, 2025
Adam R. C. Humphreys and Hidemi Suganami, "Causal Inquiry in International Relations" (Oxford UP, 2024)
95 hours 30 mins; September 20, 2025
Our Common Future: The Birth of Liberal Environmentalism
68 hours 16 mins; September 19, 2025
Charles R. Butcher and Ryan D. Griffiths, "Before Colonization: Non-Western States and Systems in the Nineteenth Century" (Columbia UP, 2025)
47 mins; September 18, 2025
George Papaconstantinou and Jean Pisani-Ferry, "New World New Rules: Global Cooperation in a World of Geopolitical Rivalries" (Agenda, 2024)
43 mins; September 17, 2025
When Should the Majority Rule – and is it time to resign democracy?
30 mins; September 16, 2025
Michael Poznansky, "Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes US Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
32 mins; September 16, 2025
“Plato and the Tyrant” with author James Romm
58 mins; September 13, 2025
Matthew Benjamin Cole, "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (U of Michigan Press, 2025)
108 hours 38 mins; September 13, 2025
Vera Michlin-Shapir, "Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; September 12, 2025
Andrea Louise Campbell, "Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes" (Princeton UP, 2025)
57 mins; September 10, 2025
Thomas Graham, "Getting Russia Right" (Polity Press, 2023)
59 mins; September 10, 2025
Ariel Colonomos, "Pricing Lives: The Political Art of Measurement" (Oxford UP, 2023)
44 mins; September 09, 2025
Is the U.S. helping speed up its own decline? with Damon Linker
67 hours 49 mins; September 08, 2025
Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley, "Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution" (Stanford UP, 2025)
39 mins; September 08, 2025
Sarah McLaughlin, "Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
41 mins; September 07, 2025
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump" (Random House, 2025)
65 hours 57 mins; September 06, 2025
Lyndsey Stonebridge on Hannah Arendt's Lessons on Love and Disobedience (JP)
56 mins; September 05, 2025
Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma" (Manchester UP, 2025)
62 hours 44 mins; September 04, 2025
Maddalena Cerrato, "Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy: A Critique of Subjectivation Processes" (SUNY Press, 2025)
54 mins; September 02, 2025
Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865-1965" (Oxford UP, 2025)
77 hours 16 mins; September 01, 2025
Margaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall" (Princeton UP, 2020)
50 mins; August 31, 2025
Thane Gustafson, "Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 18 mins; August 29, 2025
Syria After Assad
40 mins; August 29, 2025
Lindsey N. Kingston, "Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
54 mins; August 28, 2025
Victoria Basualdo et al., "Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America: A Transnational History of Profits and Repression" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
50 mins; August 27, 2025
Mark L. Haas, "The Geriatric Peace: Population Aging and the Decline of War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
52 mins; August 27, 2025
Donald G. Nieman, "The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic" (Anthem Press, 2024)
53 mins; August 25, 2025
Gregory A. Daddis, "Faith and Fear: America's Relationship with War Since 1945" (Oxford UP, 2025)
59 mins; August 25, 2025
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
57 mins; August 24, 2025
Stephan Kieninger, "Securing Peace in Europe: Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia After the Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)
40 mins; August 24, 2025
Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson, "Racial Resentment in the Political Mind" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
55 mins; August 22, 2025
Citizenship Stripping: You Are Not American
54 mins; August 21, 2025
Vinay Lal, "Gandhi, Truth, and Nonviolence: The Politics of Engagement in Post-Truth Times" (Oxford UP, 2025)
68 hours 31 mins; August 21, 2025
Reid B. C. Pauly, "The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dilemma" (Cornell UP, 2025)
59 mins; August 20, 2025
Catherine Malabou, "Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy" (Polity Books, 2023)
46 mins; August 20, 2025
Steve L. Monroe, "Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World" (Cornell UP, 2025)
24 mins; August 19, 2025
Rob Goodman, "Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
44 mins; August 19, 2025
Georgiy Kasianov et al., "From 'the Ukraine' to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991-2021" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
51 mins; August 19, 2025
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