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Episode Date
No! The Art and Activism of Complaining
Oct 22, 2026
Reimagining Foreign Aid in a Changing Global Order with Mary-Collier Wilks (Stanford UP, 2026)
Oct 21, 2026
Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture with Matthew Warner Osborn (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Oct 17, 2026
The Democracy Exchange: Asia Asks, Latin America Responds
Oct 12, 2026
Civil Societies, Uncivil States: Government Repression of NGOs with Suparna Chaudhry (Cornell UP, 2026)
Oct 12, 2026
Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing Of 1976 with Kevin Galvin (Brandeis UP, 2026)
Oct 11, 2026
Crime and No Punishment: Wealth, Power, and Violence in America with Marie Gottschalk (Princeton UP, 2026)
Oct 11, 2026
God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America with Jacob Ware (Columbia UP, 2024)
Oct 10, 2026
The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts
Oct 08, 2026
To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being Palestinian with Zahi Zalloua (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Oct 07, 2026
Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession with Nicolas Guilhot (Harvard UP, 2026)
Oct 06, 2026
The Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives with Michael Hallsworth (MIT Press, 2026)
Oct 04, 2026
Will AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely
Oct 04, 2026
Beyond Incremental Reform: Rethinking the United Nations with Augusto López-Claros
Oct 03, 2026
Rhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order with Sasikumar Sundaram (Columbia UP, 2026)
Oct 02, 2026
The Return of the Great Powers with Brendan Simms (Basic Books, 2026)
Sep 29, 2026
Compromised Coalitions: The Paradox of Postconflict Power Sharing in Africa with Alexander Noyes (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
Sep 29, 2026
Do We Really Need To Choose Between Jobs and the Environment?
Sep 29, 2026
The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism with Max Haiven (MIT Press, 2026)
Sep 28, 2026
Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891-1931 with Edward Baring (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Sep 28, 2026
“Ten Percent” – Will Humanity Survive AI?
Sep 27, 2026
Democracy on the Edge: The Trump Elections and the Future of American Politics with John Kenneth White and Matthew R. Kerbel (UP of Kansas, 2026)
Sep 26, 2026
Driven to Their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics with Roxanne L. Euben (Princeton UP, 2025)
Sep 25, 2026
Aristotle Kallis, "Iconic Fascism: The Excess of Destruction and Creation in Interwar Radical Right-wing Politics" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Sep 24, 2026
Damian White and Nicholas Pevzner, "Designing the Just Transition: Design-Politics, Labor, and the Battle for Post-Carbon Futures" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Sep 20, 2026
Lily Geismer on the Democratic Party in the 1990s
Sep 16, 2026
Billionaire Backlash
Sep 16, 2026
Why Voters Support Politicians Who Undermine Democracy
Sep 14, 2026
Voices from North Korea: Refugees Tell Their Stories
Sep 08, 2026
Sarah M. Rios, "Diseases Have No Eyes: Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice" (Temple UP, 2026)
Sep 02, 2026
Richard Ned Lebow, "Why Nations Still Fight" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Aug 30, 2026
Srirupa Roy, "The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Aug 28, 2026
David Helvarg, "Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Aug 26, 2026
A.J.A. Woods, "The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West" (Verso, 2026)
Aug 24, 2026
Jacob Hagstrom, "Asymmetric Warfare: Politics and Cultures of Violence in the Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Aug 18, 2026
Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
Aug 10, 2026
Edward T. G. Anderson, "Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Aug 08, 2026
Georgia Kernell, "Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Aug 06, 2026
Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire with Simukai Chigudu
Aug 05, 2026
Matthew Pinsker, "Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln" (Norton, 2026)
Aug 05, 2026
Eric O Silva, "Contested Realities and Identity Destigmatization: Identity Construction in the Culture Wars" (De Gruyter, 2026)
Aug 02, 2026
Isabel Heger-Laube, "China’s Landless Peasants and the Role of State-led Rural Urbanization: Narratives, Meaning Making, and the Puzzle of Social Stability" (Würzberg UP, 2025)
Jul 31, 2026
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
Jul 31, 2026
Cast Out: A Call For A Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration
Jul 23, 2026
Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
Jul 23, 2026
Kurt Warner, "False Idols: How Diversion is Destroying Democracy" (Vernon Press, 2024)
Jul 21, 2026
J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev, "Against Money" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Jul 19, 2026
Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, "Animals and the Right to Politics" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jul 17, 2026
Susanne Paola Antonetta, "The Devil's Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today" (Catapult, 2025)
Jul 17, 2026
Luna Sabastian, "Fascism in India: Race, Caste, and Hindutva" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Jul 16, 2026
Christopher M. Federico et al., "The Authoritarian Divide: Partisan Identity, Voting, and the Transformation of the American Electorate" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jul 16, 2026
Democratic Backsliding and Resistance: Poland’s Civil Society, Electoral Strategies, and Institutional Levers
Jul 12, 2026
The Emerging Anocracy: AI, Tech Oligarchs, and the Future of Democracy with Alexis Cruz
Jul 12, 2026
What are the Limits of Political Speech? A Conversation with Erik J. Olsen
Jul 10, 2026
Are Capitalism and Democracy Fundamentally Incompatible? A Conversation with Mordecai Kurz
Jul 09, 2026
A. G. Hopkins, "The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 09, 2026
Campaigning, Parties and the Digital in Contemporary Politics
Jul 08, 2026
Nicholas Freudenberg, "Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice Since The 1960s" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Jul 07, 2026
Molly Crabapple, "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund" (Random House, 2026)
Jul 05, 2026
Anna Terwiel offers A Moment of No to the Prison-Industrial Complex (JP)
Jul 02, 2026
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys
Jul 01, 2026
Kate Bayliss, "Privatising Humanity: How Our Essential Human Needs Became Financial Assets" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Jul 01, 2026
Ranita Ray, "Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Jun 28, 2026
Bryan Alexander, "Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Jun 28, 2026
John K. Roth, "Saving the American Dream: Meditations for Dark Times" (Wipf and Stock, 2026)
Jun 26, 2026
Why Democracy’s Troubles Should Come as No Surprise
Jun 23, 2026
Robin Dembroff, "Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jun 22, 2026
Steven Segal, "Mandela’s Leadership Legacy: Emotional and Existential Wisdom" (Routledge, 2026)
Jun 19, 2026
Blair LM Kelley, "Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026)
Jun 19, 2026
Derek R. Peterson, "A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda" (Yale UP, 2025)
Jun 14, 2026
Curtis Dozier, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" (Yale UP, 2026)
Jun 13, 2026
AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota
Jun 12, 2026
Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
Jun 08, 2026
The Diasporic Hindu Right with Savera
Jun 08, 2026
Michael Brownstein et al., "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change" (MIT Press, 2025)
Jun 06, 2026
Geraldine Fela, "Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia's AIDS Crisis" (UNSW Press, 2024)
Jun 03, 2026
Andrew Demshuk, "The Filthiest Village in Europe: Grassroots Ecology and the Collapse of East Germany" (Cornell UP, 2026)
May 30, 2026
Gary Hoover, "Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead" (U California Press, 2026)
May 30, 2026
Paige Towers, "What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption" (U Iowa Press, 2026)
May 28, 2026
Shefalee Vasudev, "Stories We Wear: Status, Spectacle and the Politics of Appearance" (Westland Non-Fiction, 2025)
May 28, 2026
Franziska Sittig and Noam Petri, "Intellectual Self-Destruction: How the West Gambles Away Its Future" (Ibidem Press, 2025)
May 27, 2026
Billionaire Backlash: Can It Help Save Democracy?
May 26, 2026
Stuart Schrader, "Blue Power: How Police Organized to Serve and Protect Themselves" (Basic Books, 2026)
May 23, 2026
Shyam Ranganathan, "Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)
May 21, 2026
Steven W. Thrasher, "The Overseer Class: A Manifesto" (Amistad, 2026)
May 19, 2026
Carlos Martins, "Fascism: Beyond Hitler and Mussolini" (Desassossego, 2022)
May 18, 2026
Inken Von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas, "Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change” (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 18, 2026
Beyond Minorities: Power, Identity, and Conflict in the Middle East
May 15, 2026
Robin Andersen, "The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel's Genocide in Gaza" (OR Books, 2026)
May 09, 2026
Steffen Mau et al., "The Trigger Points: Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" (Policy Press, 2026)
May 08, 2026
Are We Entering An Arms Race in Outer Space?
May 08, 2026
Fighting for a Foothold: How Government and Markets Undermine Black Middle-Class Suburbia
May 07, 2026
Odd Arne Westad, "The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History" (Henry Holt and Co, 2026)
May 06, 2026
Jeremy Harding's Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination
May 05, 2026
What Does the American Presidency Mean?
May 05, 2026
Alana Lentin, "The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy" (Pluto Books, 2025)
May 04, 2026
Russell McCutcheon, "Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia, second edition" (Oxford UP, 2026)
May 04, 2026
Daniel Gross, "Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World" (Haymarket, 2026)
May 03, 2026
William I. Robinson, "Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Apr 30, 2026
Francisco Martínez, "The Future of Hiding: Secrecy, Infrastructure, and Ecological Memory in Estonia's Siberia" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Apr 28, 2026
Trevor Jackson, "The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World" (Norton, 2026)
Apr 28, 2026
Rugged Individualism
Apr 27, 2026
Caste and Race: Ambedkar and King with the Ambedkar King Study Circle
Apr 27, 2026
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State: A Conversation with Stephen Sims
Apr 27, 2026
Assessing Global Democratic Health Amidst a Growing Shadow of Autocracy
Apr 27, 2026
Oil and Militancy in Nigeria: A Conversation with Noo Saro-Wiwa
Apr 26, 2026
Nikki Luke, "Electric Life: Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy" (MIT Press, 2026)
Apr 24, 2026
Sarah Jaffe, "From the Ashes: Grief and Transformation in a World on Fire" (Bold Type Books, 2024)
Apr 22, 2026
The Information State: How is the State Surveilling and Manipulating us These Days?
Apr 22, 2026
David Blumenthal and James A. Morone, "Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science" (Yale UP, 2026)
Apr 21, 2026
Ladder or Lottery? Gary Hoover on the Consequences of Broken Economic Promises
Apr 20, 2026
Myung-jin Han with Nicolas Levi, "I Was a North Korean Diplomat: Inside the Secret World of Pyongyang's Foreign Service" (Independently Published, 2026)
Apr 18, 2026
169* Hannah Arendt on Oases (JP)
Apr 17, 2026
Alisa Kessel, "Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Apr 16, 2026
Daniel A. Bell, "Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 15, 2026
Lia Kent, "The Unruly Dead: Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)
Apr 15, 2026
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Apr 13, 2026
Jasper Bernes, "The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising" (Verso Books, 2025)
Apr 12, 2026
Annahid Dashtgard, "Fire and Silence: A Roadmap for BIPOC Leaders" (Dundurn Press, 2026)
Apr 11, 2026
The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence
Apr 09, 2026
Melissa Butcher, "The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Apr 07, 2026
Emotions of LGBT Rights
Apr 06, 2026
Ho-fung Hung, "The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Apr 06, 2026
Stephen Onyango Ouma, "Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty and Liberation" (Brill, 2026)
Apr 05, 2026
Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Mar 30, 2026
Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 28, 2026
Thomas Hegghammer and Diego Gambetta eds., "Fight, Flight, Mimic: Identity Mimicry in Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 28, 2026
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis
Mar 25, 2026
Sarah Jaffe, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone" (Bold Type Books, 2021)
Mar 25, 2026
⁠The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health⁠
Mar 19, 2026
Miriam Ticktin, "Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 19, 2026
Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, "The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late" (Verso Books, 2025)
Mar 18, 2026
Our Age of War: A Discussion with Author Robert Pape
Mar 18, 2026
Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee, "Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2026) 
Mar 14, 2026
Tristan J. Rogers, "Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)
Mar 14, 2026
Understanding Iran Under Attack: A Discussion with Author Vali Nasr
Mar 12, 2026
Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Mar 12, 2026
Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
Mar 11, 2026
Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress
Mar 10, 2026
Sezai Ozan Zeybek, "Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Mar 09, 2026
Sean Parson, "Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Mar 07, 2026
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 02, 2026
Barbie Zelizer, "How the Cold War Broke the News: The Surprising Roots of Journalism's Decline" (Polity, 2025)
Feb 28, 2026
Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 21, 2026
Kenneth Lowande, "False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Feb 19, 2026
Thomas Zeitzoff, "No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Feb 19, 2026
The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy
Feb 19, 2026
Hélène Landemore, "Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule" (Penguin, 2026)
Feb 12, 2026
Tom Bolton, "Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations" (Strange Attractor, 2025)
Feb 11, 2026
Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)
Feb 09, 2026
Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 07, 2026
Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)
Feb 03, 2026
Itohan I. Osayimwese, "Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Feb 03, 2026
Nicole Wegner, "Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Jan 31, 2026
Bradley R. Simpson, "The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jan 25, 2026
Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
Jan 24, 2026
Emily Mendenhall, "Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID" (U California Press, 2026)
Jan 24, 2026
Betto van Waarden, "Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jan 23, 2026
Richard A. Falk and Hans von Sponeck, "Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Jan 22, 2026
Yunus Emre Ozigci, "NATO’s Meaning and Existence: Within the Interstate Intersubjectivity" (Vernon Press, 2026)
Jan 21, 2026
Laurie Parsons, "Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Jan 18, 2026
Gonzalo Lizarralde, "Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jan 17, 2026
Angie Hobbs, "Why Plato Matters Now" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Jan 14, 2026
Stephen Skowronek, "The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Jan 12, 2026
Amitav Acharya, "The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West" (Hachette UK, 2025)
Jan 10, 2026
Bruce Berglund, "The Moscow Playbook: How Russia Used, Abused, and Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Power" (Triumph Books, 2026)
Jan 10, 2026
J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Jan 09, 2026
Sonya Lea, "American Bloodlines: Reckoning with Lynch Culture" (UP of Kentucky, 2025)
Jan 09, 2026
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
Jan 06, 2026
What happens when liberalism stops feeling like a victory and starts feeling like an exhaustion?
Jan 05, 2026
Hans Kundnani, "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 01, 2026
Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 31, 2025
Russell T. McCutcheon, "Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion" (Routledge, 2023)
Dec 29, 2025
Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Profile Books, 2026)
Dec 26, 2025
Trymaine Lee, "A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America" (St. Martins, 2025)
Dec 25, 2025
Beenash Jafri, "Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Dec 23, 2025
Caitlin Schroering, "Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water, We Have Nothing" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Dec 21, 2025
Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French
Dec 20, 2025
Leo R. Chavez, "The Latino Threat: How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Dec 20, 2025
Pierre D'Alancaisez and Amir Naaman, "Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual" (Verdurin, 2025)
Dec 17, 2025
Katrina Navickas, "Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England" (Reaktion, 2025)
Dec 14, 2025
Mirya Holman, "The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy" (Temple UP, 2025)
Dec 14, 2025
161 One Battle After Another: A West Newton Cinema Discussion with Peter Coviello and Ethan Warren (JP)
Dec 04, 2025
Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
Dec 01, 2025
Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Nov 29, 2025
Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing, 2022)
Nov 29, 2025
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 28, 2025
Lauren E. M. Everett, "Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land: At Home in Santa Monica's Rent-Controlled Housing" (Temple UP, 2025)
Nov 26, 2025
160* Hannah Arendt's Refugee Politics (JP)
Nov 20, 2025
Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami
Nov 20, 2025
On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore
Nov 18, 2025
Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Nov 17, 2025
Caroline Jack, "Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Nov 13, 2025
Joseph Stiglitz, "The Origins of Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Nov 10, 2025
House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
Nov 06, 2025
Carol Mason, "From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary" (U California Press, 2025)
Nov 05, 2025
Liam Graham, "Physics Fixes All the Facts" (Springer Nature, 2025)
Nov 05, 2025
brian bean, "Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition" (Haymarket, 2025)
Nov 04, 2025
Muhammad H. Zaman, "Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World’s Most Vulnerable" (The New Press, 2025)
Nov 04, 2025
Joshua Castellino, "Calibrating Colonial Crime: Reparations and The Crime of Unjust Enrichment" (Policy Press, 2025)
Nov 04, 2025
Eram Alam, "The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare" (JHU Press, 2025)
Nov 03, 2025
Nancy Neiman, "Markets, Community and Just Infrastructures" (Routledge, 2020)
Nov 01, 2025
Radio ReOrient 13.3: “Why Palestine Activism & Resistance Matter,” with Hatem Bazian and Ismail Patel, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward
Oct 31, 2025
Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries
Oct 28, 2025
Michael Lazarus, "Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Oct 26, 2025
Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier, "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" (MIT Press, 2025)
Oct 23, 2025
Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 20, 2025
Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action​" (Haymarket, 2019)
Oct 20, 2025
Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Oct 20, 2025
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2025
David Stasavage, "The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Oct 18, 2025
Nancy Newman, "Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York: Including Twenty-Two New Settings of Period Tunes" (SUNY Press, 2025)
Oct 18, 2025
Hamid Dabashi, "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (Haymarket, 2025)
Oct 15, 2025
Kevin M. Schultz, "Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Oct 10, 2025
Will Kitchen, "Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Oct 10, 2025
What is Free Speech with Fara Dabhoiwala
Oct 09, 2025
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
Oct 06, 2025
Jill Elaine Hasday, "We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Oct 05, 2025
Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, "The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail" (Heresy Press, 2025)
Oct 02, 2025
Sasha Davis, "Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Oct 01, 2025
Kenja McCray, "Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership" (NYU Press, 2025)
Sep 22, 2025
Tim Weiner, "The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century" (Mariner Books, 2025)
Sep 22, 2025
Nicholas Jacobs and Sidney M. Milkis, "Subverting the Republic: Donald J. Trump and the Perils of Presidentialism" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Sep 20, 2025
Our Common Future: The Birth of Liberal Environmentalism
Sep 19, 2025
Sarah Schulman, "The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity" (Penguin, 2025)
Sep 19, 2025
Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
Sep 17, 2025
Zahi Zalloua, "Fanon, Žižek and the Violence of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Sep 17, 2025
When Should the Majority Rule – and is it time to resign democracy?
Sep 16, 2025
“Plato and the Tyrant” with author James Romm
Sep 13, 2025
Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley, "Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Sep 08, 2025
Is the U.S. helping speed up its own decline? with Damon Linker
Sep 08, 2025
Sarah McLaughlin, "Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
Sep 07, 2025
Santiago Zabala, "Signs from the Future: Philosophy of Warnings" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Sep 04, 2025
Maddalena Cerrato, "Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy: A Critique of Subjectivation Processes" (SUNY Press, 2025)
Sep 02, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
Sep 01, 2025
David Edmonds, "Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Sep 01, 2025
Thane Gustafson, "Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 29, 2025
Donald G. Nieman, "The Path to Paralysis: How American Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Aug 25, 2025
Nick Spencer, "The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About?" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 24, 2025
Todd Mcgowan, "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Aug 20, 2025
Catherine Malabou, "Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy" (Polity Books, 2023)
Aug 20, 2025
Alyssa Battistoni, "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Aug 19, 2025
What Makes for Successful Civil Resistance?
Aug 18, 2025
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)
Aug 14, 2025
James Kimmel, Jr., "The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction—and How to Overcome It" (Random House, 2025)
Aug 14, 2025
Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers are Changing the World
Aug 12, 2025
Ryan Griffiths, "The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 11, 2025
Alexandra Freidus, "Unequal Lessons: School Diversity and Educational Inequality in New York City" (NYU Press, 2025)
Aug 10, 2025
Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space" (Viking, 2025)
Aug 08, 2025
154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson
Aug 07, 2025
Heather Browning and Walter Veit, "What Are Zoos For?" (Policy Press, 2024)
Aug 05, 2025
Daniel José Gaztambide, "Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Aug 03, 2025
Camilla Fitzsimons, "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Aug 02, 2025
Linda Gordon, "Seven Social Movements That Changed America" (LIveright, 2025)
Aug 02, 2025
Philip Cunliffe, "The National Interest: Politics After Globalization" (Polity Press, 2025)
Aug 02, 2025
How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking Democracy
Jul 31, 2025
On Bullshit in AI
Jul 31, 2025
Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)
Jul 29, 2025
Mark R. Rank, "Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 26, 2025
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jul 25, 2025
The Tug of War: Why Racial Progress Often Meets Resistance and Backlash
Jul 25, 2025
James Cairns, "In Crisis, on Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2025)
Jul 24, 2025
Linda Quiquivix, "Palestine 1492: A Report Back" (Wild Ox Books, 2024)
Jul 23, 2025
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" (Harper, 2025)
Jul 23, 2025
Savannah Mandel on an Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration
Jul 14, 2025
Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jul 14, 2025
On Bullshit in Politics
Jul 12, 2025
Carl Rhodes, "Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire" (Policy Press, 2025)
Jul 11, 2025
Joseph Darda, "Gift and Grit: Race, Sports, and the Construction of Social Debt" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jul 07, 2025
Paul Tucker, "Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jul 04, 2025
Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jul 04, 2025
The attack on democracy in the United States, and the new resistance
Jul 03, 2025
Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox ed., "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)
Jul 03, 2025
Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 27, 2025
Nubar Hovsepian, "Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual" (AUC Press, 2025)
Jun 26, 2025
The Truth About Bullshit: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary Edition of On Bullshit with Pamela Hieronymi
Jun 23, 2025
David Zweig, "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions" (MIT Press, 2025)
Jun 23, 2025
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
Jun 20, 2025
A Book Imprint from The Nation Magazine Launches with Bhaskar Sunkara and Colin Robinson
Jun 19, 2025
Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 10, 2025
Kevin B. Anderson, "The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism" (Verso, 2025)
Jun 09, 2025
Jaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Jun 01, 2025
Peter Allen, "How to Think about Politics: A Guide in Five Parts" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 31, 2025
Karida L. Brown, "The Battle for the Black Mind" (Legacy Lit, 2025)
May 30, 2025
The Telegraph Takeover: Power, Profit & the Press
May 30, 2025
Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 29, 2025
Keir Giles, "Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent" (Hurst & Co., 2024)
May 29, 2025
Samuel Western, "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (UP of Kansas)
May 28, 2025
How Do Autocrats Stay in Power: A Discussion with Johannes Gerschewski
May 27, 2025
Dionne Koller, "More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport" (U California Press, 2025)
May 24, 2025
Erin Pritchard, "Midgetism: The Exploitation and Discrimination of People with Dwarfism" (Routledge, 2023)
May 23, 2025
Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
May 22, 2025
Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell
May 21, 2025
The Price of Free Speech: Politics and Power on Campus
May 21, 2025
Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 20, 2025
Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
May 19, 2025
False Dawn: A Conversation with George Selgin on Recovering from the Great Depression
May 18, 2025
Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
May 17, 2025
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
May 16, 2025
Lara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 15, 2025
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 14, 2025
Mark Fallon, "Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture" (Regan Arts, 2017)
May 13, 2025
Democracy for Sale: Death by Dark Money
May 12, 2025
Threats to Universities and What We Can Do: A Conversation with Brandice Canes Wrone
May 11, 2025
Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 10, 2025
Liz Pelly, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" (Atria, 2025)
May 09, 2025
"I have not Finished...": Rokahya Diallo on being Black, Muslim, and frequently interrupted (Emilie Diouf, JP)
May 08, 2025
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 07, 2025
Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives
May 06, 2025
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 05, 2025
Cynthia Enloe, "Twelve Feminist Lessons of War" (U California Press, 2023)
May 04, 2025
Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America" (Island Press, 2025)
May 03, 2025
Claudia Rowe, "Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care" (Abrams Press, 2025)
May 02, 2025
Laleh Khalili, "Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy" (Profile Books, 2025)
May 01, 2025
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
Apr 30, 2025
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Apr 29, 2025
The Good Father Syndrome: Why Strongmen Still Seduce
Apr 28, 2025
Emma Casey, "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" (Manchester UP, 2025)
Apr 27, 2025
Steven Hahn, "Illiberal America: A History" (Norton, 2024)
Apr 26, 2025
How to Found A College: A Conversation with University of Austin President Pano Kanelos
Apr 26, 2025
Adam Kissel et al., "Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation" (Encounter Books, 2025)
Apr 25, 2025
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Apr 24, 2025
Reginald K. Ellis et al., "Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation" (UP of Florida, 2025)
Apr 23, 2025
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)
Apr 22, 2025
Postscript: Political Scientists Ring Alarm Bell Over Trump’s Second Administration
Apr 21, 2025
Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
Apr 20, 2025
Sophie Lewis, "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" (Haymarket Books, 2025)
Apr 19, 2025
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
Apr 16, 2025
Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
Apr 16, 2025
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
Apr 15, 2025
Aaron Kupchik, "Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 14, 2025
Is Liberal Democracy Dying?
Apr 13, 2025
Pandemic Power: The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy - A Liberal Critique
Apr 12, 2025
What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions
Apr 11, 2025
Ståle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
Apr 10, 2025
Sam Wetherell, "Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 09, 2025
Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)
Apr 08, 2025
Benjamin M. Studebaker, "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Apr 07, 2025
Will Potter, "Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable" (City Lights Books, 2025)
Apr 06, 2025
Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)
Apr 05, 2025
Postscript: Collective Action to Support Students at American Colleges and Universities
Apr 04, 2025
Jonathan Rauch, "Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy" (Yale UP, 2025)
Apr 03, 2025
We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi
Apr 02, 2025
Postscript: History, Narratives, and Political Power--An Emergency Oral History Project
Mar 31, 2025
Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
Mar 30, 2025
Human Rights in the Trump Era: A Conversation with Kenneth Roth
Mar 26, 2025
Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 25, 2025
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 25, 2025
Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship
Mar 24, 2025
Royce Kurmelovs, "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil" (U Queensland Press, 2024)
Mar 23, 2025
David Hollenbach, "Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
Mar 22, 2025
Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 19, 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
Mar 19, 2025
Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024)
Mar 18, 2025
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
Mar 16, 2025
Postscript: Donald Trump is Erasing History – What YOU Can Do about it
Mar 15, 2025
Postscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship
Mar 14, 2025
Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 13, 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee
Mar 12, 2025
Postscript: All talk and no action? How political scientists respond to racism and authoritarianism?
Mar 10, 2025
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
Mar 10, 2025
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 09, 2025
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Mar 08, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS)
Mar 06, 2025
Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 04, 2025
Andrew Boyd, "I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor" (New Society, 2023)
Mar 03, 2025
Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Mar 02, 2025
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)
Mar 01, 2025
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores
Feb 27, 2025
Giampaolo Conte, "A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 25, 2025
Postscript: How to Fight Back: Charting Opposition to the Actions of the Trump Administration
Feb 24, 2025
Ethan Tapper, "How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World" (Broadleaf Books, 2024)
Feb 22, 2025
Tabish Khair, "Literature Against Fundamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 22, 2025
Martyn Percy, "The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England" (Hurst, 2025)
Feb 21, 2025
Patrick Riordan, "Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
Feb 20, 2025
Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)
Feb 18, 2025
Trump, Anti-DEI and Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms
Feb 18, 2025
René Reinhold Schallegger, "A New Virtual Ethics: Interconnectedness and Interrelationality in Videogames" (McFarland, 2024)
Feb 14, 2025
Alpa Shah, "The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India" (OR Books, 2024)
Feb 13, 2025
Rebecca Haw Allensworth, "The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Feb 12, 2025
American Higher Education Under the Second Trump Administration
Feb 11, 2025
Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)
Feb 10, 2025
Shoumita Dasgupta, "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA" (U California Press, 2025)
Feb 10, 2025
"Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations" (Fernwood Publishing, 2024)
Feb 09, 2025
Martín Alberto Gonzalez, "Why You Always So Political?: The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students in Higher Education" (Viva Oxnard, 2023)
Feb 08, 2025
Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 08, 2025
Zahi Zalloua, "The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Feb 07, 2025
Corinne Mitsuye Sugino, "Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Feb 07, 2025
Violent Majorities 2.1: Peter Beinart on Long-Distance Israeli Ethnonationalism (LA, AS)
Feb 06, 2025
Vittorio Bufacchi, "Why Cicero Matters" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 04, 2025
Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
Feb 04, 2025
Mirca Madianou, "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful" (Polity, 2024)
Feb 01, 2025
Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024)
Jan 29, 2025
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 28, 2025
142* Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy (EF, JP)
Jan 23, 2025
Andy Wightman, "The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it" (Birlinn, 2025)
Jan 22, 2025
Brigid Schulte, "Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life" (Henry Holt, 2024)
Jan 20, 2025
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jan 20, 2025
August H. Nimtz and Kyle A. Edwards, "The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution" (Brill, 2024)
Jan 17, 2025
Alva Gotby, "Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing" (Verso, 2025)
Jan 16, 2025
Congressional Deliberation: A Conversation with Kevin J. Burns and Jordan T. Cash
Jan 16, 2025
Anthony Walton, "The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation" (David R. Godine, 2024)
Jan 15, 2025
Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Jan 15, 2025
Nancy Reddy, "The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Jan 13, 2025
Matthew McManus, "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" (Routledge, 2024)
Jan 11, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
Jan 11, 2025
Jonathon Wilson-Hartgrove, "White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy" (Liveright, 2024)
Jan 10, 2025
Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 09, 2025
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Jan 07, 2025
Devin Fergus, “Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jan 05, 2025
Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 04, 2025
Victor D. Cha, "The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jan 02, 2025
Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 26, 2024
Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 25, 2024
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 25, 2024
Matt Beane, "The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines" (HarperCollins, 2024)
Dec 23, 2024
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
Dec 23, 2024
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023)
Dec 22, 2024
Ulises Ali Mejias and Nick Couldry, "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024
Free Inquiry in the Academy and Beyond
Dec 18, 2024
Sara Cantillon et al., "Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective" (Agenda, 2023)
Dec 16, 2024
Postscript: Violence, Consent, and Coercion in American Football
Dec 16, 2024
Robert Danisch, "Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024
Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024
Melissa B. Jacoby, "Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal" (New Press, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024
Toby Manning, "Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music" (Repeater, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024
S4E18 Who Cares? A Conversation with Emily Kenway
Dec 11, 2024
Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
Dec 09, 2024
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
Dec 08, 2024
Karyne E Messina, "A Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia: Searching for Truth" (Routledge, 2024)
Dec 08, 2024
Larry Alan Busk, "The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Dec 06, 2024
Eric Drott, "Streaming Music, Streaming Capital" (Duke UP, 2024)
Dec 06, 2024
Simin Fadaee, "Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Dec 05, 2024
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Dec 05, 2024
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 05, 2024
Alexander Guerrero, "Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 04, 2024
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
Dec 03, 2024
Carrie N. Baker, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
Dec 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)
Dec 02, 2024
How Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense Affected the 2024 Presidential Campaign and Election
Dec 01, 2024
Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Dec 01, 2024
Brett Bowden, "Now Is Not the Time: Inside Our Obsession with the Present" (Iff Books, 2024)
Nov 30, 2024
Too Black and Rasul A. Mowatt, "Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits" (Routledge, 2024)
Nov 29, 2024
Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)
Nov 27, 2024
In Conversation: Islamophobia, Race and Global Politics
Nov 27, 2024
Daniel S. Goldberg, "Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Law, Ethics, and Public Health" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Nov 25, 2024
Jennifer Denbow, "Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype" (Duke UP, 2024)
Nov 24, 2024
Kevin B. Smith, "The Jailer's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Nov 24, 2024
The Secret Life of Central Bankers
Nov 24, 2024
Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie (with David Cunningham)
Nov 23, 2024
Ronald Reagan Gave Us Punk Rock (with Vincent Brown)
Nov 22, 2024
Robin Phillips and Joshua Pauling, "Are We All Cyborgs Now?: Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine" (Basilian Media, 2024)
Nov 22, 2024
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024
Serene Khader, "Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop" (Beacon Press, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024
Erica Benner, "Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power" (Penguin, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024
An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)
Nov 21, 2024
Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 19, 2024
Nick Bernards, "Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First Century Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2024)
Nov 18, 2024
Tom Theuns, "Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy and the Future of the EU" (Hurst, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024
Saadia Yacoob, "Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law" (U California Press, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024
Whitney Kemble, "Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries As Neutral Places, 1960-2020" (Library Juice Press, 2024)
Nov 15, 2024
The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
Nov 13, 2024
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, "What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Nov 12, 2024
Matthew Elia, "The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery" (Yale UP, 2024)
Nov 11, 2024
Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War
Nov 09, 2024
Todd Stern, "Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next" (MIT Press, 2024)
Nov 08, 2024
David Rowell, "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music" (Melville House, 2024)
Nov 06, 2024
The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7
Nov 05, 2024
Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
Nov 05, 2024
Matthew Ferrence, "I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
Nov 04, 2024
Luisa Neubauer and Alexander Repenning, "Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A History of Our Future" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
Nov 01, 2024
Greg Epstein, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation" (MIT Press, 2024)
Oct 30, 2024
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
Oct 30, 2024
Mark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)
Oct 29, 2024
Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
Oct 27, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
Oct 27, 2024
Kostas Kampourakis, "Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 27, 2024
Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva, "The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game" (UNC Press, 2024)
Oct 27, 2024
Nathan J. Murphy, "The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule our Lives and How to Change it" (Prepolitica, 2024)
Oct 26, 2024
Matilde Masso, "Contested Money: Towards a New Social Contract" (Routledge, 2023)
Oct 25, 2024
The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide
Oct 24, 2024
S4E11 Religion and Republic: A Conversation with Miles Smith
Oct 23, 2024
Steven Levitsky, "Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All" (Crown, 2024)
Oct 22, 2024
René Boer, "Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives" (Valiz, 2023)
Oct 22, 2024
Adam Greenfield, "Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire" (Verso, 2024)
Oct 22, 2024
Sarah M. Stitzlein, "Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era: Emphasizing Truth in the Education of Citizens" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Oct 17, 2024
Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)
Oct 17, 2024
The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart
Oct 16, 2024
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 15, 2024
Chris Cutrone, "Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory 2006-2024" (Sublation Media, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024
Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024
Eunsong Kim, "The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property" (Duke UP, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024
S4E9 The Fragility of China: A Conversation with Dennis Unkovic
Oct 09, 2024
Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)
Oct 09, 2024
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, "Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians" (NYU Press, 2024)
Oct 07, 2024
Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
Oct 07, 2024
Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024)
Oct 06, 2024
Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Oct 06, 2024
Michael J. Thompson, "Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism" (Routledge, 2024)
Oct 05, 2024
Jon Michaels and David Noll, "Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy" (Atria/One Signal, 2024)
Oct 03, 2024
Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
Oct 03, 2024
From Tribalism to Common Humanity: A Conversation with Dr. John Ellis
Oct 02, 2024
Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)
Oct 01, 2024
Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sep 29, 2024
Free Speech 70: Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters
Sep 28, 2024
Jeff Schuhrke, "Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of U.S. Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade" (Verso, 2024)
Sep 27, 2024
Ian Williams, "Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy (Birlinn, 2024)
Sep 27, 2024
David L. Swartz, "The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity" (Routledge, 2024)
Sep 26, 2024
Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 25, 2024
David M. Driesen, "The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2024
Emily M. Bender on AI Hype
Sep 23, 2024
William Cooper, "How America Works and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the US Political System" (Ad Lib, 2024)
Sep 22, 2024
Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 22, 2024
Aideen O’Shaughnessy, "Embodying Irish Abortion Reform: Bodies, Emotions, and Feminist Activism" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Sep 21, 2024
Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, "Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism" (Melville House, 2024)
Sep 21, 2024
Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
Sep 19, 2024
Seth J. Frantzman, "The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza" (Wicked Son, 2024)
Sep 18, 2024
Danny Sriskandarajah, "Power to the People: Use Your Voice, Change the World" (Headline Press, 2024)
Sep 17, 2024
Kevin J. McMahon, "A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 16, 2024
John Schofield, "Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 15, 2024
Celebrating Constitution Day Pt. 1: A Conversation with Cass R. Sunstein
Sep 11, 2024
Josh Cowen, "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
Sep 10, 2024
Red Chidgey and Joanne Garde-Hansen, "Museums, Archives and Protest Memory" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Sep 09, 2024
Jess Whatcott, "Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics" (Duke UP, 2024)
Sep 07, 2024
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, "Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine" (NYU Press, 2024)
Sep 06, 2024
Cary Nelson, "Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
Sep 04, 2024
S4E4 In Defense of Bad Science and the Philosophy of Being
Sep 04, 2024
David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Sep 04, 2024
Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
Jonathan Gienapp, "Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique" (Yale UP, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
Karyne E. Messina, "The Power of Community: A 45 Day Action Plan to Stop Trump from Turning Our Democracy into His Autocracy" (PI Press, 2024)
Sep 01, 2024
Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 31, 2024
Radio Reorient Season 11: A Wrap Up and Round Up
Aug 29, 2024
Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)
Aug 29, 2024
The Human Advantage: A Conversation with Jay Richards
Aug 28, 2024
Hope Bohanec, "The Humane Hoax: Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs" (Lantern Publishing, 2023)
Aug 26, 2024
Damaging Rationality: Exxon-Funded Legal Research and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Aug 25, 2024
Claire Carter et al., "Contemporary Vulnerabilities: Reflections on Social Justice Methodologies" (U Alberta Press, 2024)
Aug 23, 2024
Peter Allen, “The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 20, 2024
Raj Jayadev, "Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration" (New Press, 2023)
Aug 18, 2024
12 Angry Alaskans: Re-Examining the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Case
Aug 16, 2024
Matthew Archer, "Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability" (NYU Press, 2024)
Aug 16, 2024
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
Aug 15, 2024
Policing and White Power with Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham (JP, EF)
Aug 15, 2024
Decoloniality
Aug 15, 2024
Is Islamophobia Racism?
Aug 14, 2024
Miguel Montalva Barba, "White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space" (Policy Press, 2024)
Aug 14, 2024
Craig Gent, "Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work" (Verso, 2024)
Aug 13, 2024
Aimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Aug 12, 2024
Benjamin C. Waterhouse on "One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America"
Aug 12, 2024
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 2
Aug 09, 2024
Daniel Kahneman’s Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research
Aug 09, 2024
Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
Aug 06, 2024
Emily Cousens, "Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Aug 06, 2024
Thomas A. Kerns and Kathleen Dean Moore, "Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change" (Oregon State UP, 2021)
Aug 06, 2024
Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
Aug 05, 2024
Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 04, 2024
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
Aug 03, 2024
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 1
Aug 02, 2024
Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
Aug 01, 2024
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jul 31, 2024
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jul 28, 2024
Postscript: Changing Dynamics in the Presidential Race, 2024
Jul 25, 2024
Anne Applebaum, "Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
Jul 23, 2024
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 22, 2024
Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jul 21, 2024
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
Jul 21, 2024
Krista E. Hughes et al., "Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World" (Penn State UP, 2019)
Jul 20, 2024
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Jul 20, 2024
Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Jul 20, 2024
Hamilton Nolan, "The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor" (Hachette Books, 2024)
Jul 19, 2024
Seth A. Berkowitz, "Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Jul 18, 2024
Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jul 17, 2024
Mónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024)
Jul 14, 2024
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jul 14, 2024
Maya Wind, "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom" (Verso, 2024)
Jul 12, 2024
Wendy Matsumura, "Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jul 11, 2024
Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
Jul 11, 2024
Kellie Carter Jackson, "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance" (Seal Press, 2024)
Jul 10, 2024
Premal Dharia et al., "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change" (FSG Originals, 2024)
Jul 09, 2024
Dmitri Alperovitch, "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
Jul 06, 2024
Jessie Abrahams, "Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Jul 06, 2024
Samira Mehta, "The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging" (Beacon Press, 2023)
Jul 05, 2024
Daniel Susskind, "Growth: A History and a Reckoning" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Jul 03, 2024
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 02, 2024
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jul 01, 2024
Kehbuma Langmia, "Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga" (Anthem Press, 2024)
Jul 01, 2024
Felicia Arriaga, "Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jun 30, 2024
Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)
Jun 27, 2024
Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider, "The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual" (The New Press, 2024)
Jun 27, 2024
Postscript: Unpacking the 2024 U.S. Presidential Debate, Conventions, and Polling
Jun 24, 2024
Andreas Fulda, "Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security" (Bloombury, 2024)
Jun 22, 2024
Johanna Oksala, "Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology" (Northwestern UP, 2023)
Jun 20, 2024
Postscript: Previewing the 2024 Presidential Race
Jun 17, 2024
Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)
Jun 15, 2024
Nivedita Menon, "Secularism As Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jun 13, 2024
More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
Jun 13, 2024
What and Why are Political Beliefs? A Conversation with Oliver Traldi
Jun 12, 2024
Timothy Morton, "Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jun 12, 2024
Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)
Jun 11, 2024