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Conversations with scholars on recent books in Political Theory and Social and Political Philosophy.
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Episode 184: John Christman - Reconceiving Freedom from the Shadows of Slavery
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Aug 28, 2025 |
Episode 183: Linda Zerilli - A Democratic Theory of Truth
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Aug 12, 2025 |
Episode 182: Alyssa Battistoni - Free Gifts
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Jul 23, 2025 |
Episode 181: Amit Ron and Abraham Singer - Everyone's Business
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Jul 09, 2025 |
Episode 180: Robert Gooding-Williams - Democracy and Beauty
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Jun 19, 2025 |
Episode 179: Natasha Piano - Democratic Elitism
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Jun 04, 2025 |
Episode 178: Agustina Paglayan - Raised to Obey
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May 20, 2025 |
Episode 177: Ryan Balot - Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws
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May 16, 2025 |
Episode 176: Michael Fuerstein - Experiments in Living Together
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Apr 25, 2025 |
Episode 175: Laurie M. Johnson - The Gap in God''s Country
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Apr 10, 2025 |
Episode 174: Leah Downey - Our Money
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Mar 19, 2025 |
Episode 173: Kevin Pham - The Architects of Dignity
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Mar 06, 2025 |
Episode 172: Ali Aslam, David McIvor, and Joel Schlosser - Earthborn Democracy
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Feb 24, 2025 |
Episode 171: Anna Marisa Schoen - Nations before the Nation-State
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Feb 18, 2025 |
Episode 170: Vanessa Wills - Marx's Ethical Vision
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Jan 30, 2025 |
Episode 169: Alasia Nuti - Politicizing Political Liberalism
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Jan 08, 2025 |
Episode 168: Espen Hammer - After the Death of God
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Dec 10, 2024 |
Episode 167: Mary Nichols - Aristotle's Discovery of the Human
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Nov 22, 2024 |
Episode 166: Nancy Rosenblum - Ungoverning
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Nov 19, 2024 |
Episode 165: Fabienne Peter - The Grounds of Political Legitimacy
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Nov 07, 2024 |
Episode 164: Stephen Darwall - The Heart and Its Attitudes
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Nov 04, 2024 |
Episode 163: Alexandre Lefebvre - Liberalism as a Way of Life
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Oct 29, 2024 |
Episode 162: Jordan Cash - The Isolated Presidency
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Oct 18, 2024 |
Episode 161: Nazmul Sultan - Waiting for the People
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Oct 08, 2024 |
Episode 160: David Lay Williams - The Greatest of All Plagues
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Sep 26, 2024 |
Episode 159: Aurelian Craiutu - Why Not Moderation?
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Sep 10, 2024 |
Episode 158: Benjamin Schupmann - Democracy Despite Itself
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Aug 29, 2024 |
Episode 157: Isaac Nakhimovsky - The Holy Alliance
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Aug 22, 2024 |
Episode 156: Genevieve Rousseliere - Sharing Freedom
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Aug 14, 2024 |
Episode 155: Samuel Bagg - The Dispersion of Power
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Jul 29, 2024 |
Episode 154: Aaron Alexander Zubia - The Political Thought of David Hume
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Jul 17, 2024 |
Episode 153: Jeff Spinner-Halev - Respect and Loathing in American Democracy
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Jul 12, 2024 |
Episode 152: Robert Pippin - The Culmination
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Jun 20, 2024 |
Episode 151: Gianna Englert - Democracy Tamed
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Jun 14, 2024 |
Episode 150: Frank Lovett - The Well-Ordered Republic
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Jun 10, 2024 |
Episode 149: Richard Bourke - Hegel's World Revolutions
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May 24, 2024 |
Episode 148: Richard Tuck - Active and Passive Citizens
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May 16, 2024 |
Episode 147: Laura Valentini - Morality and Socially Constructed Norms
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May 10, 2024 |
Episode 146: Alan S. Kahan - Freedom from Fear
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Apr 17, 2024 |
Episode 145: Jason Blakely - Lost in Ideology
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Apr 02, 2024 |
Episode 144: Ines Valdez - Democracy and Empire
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Mar 23, 2024 |
Episode 143: Justin Dyer - The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics
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Mar 06, 2024 |
Episode 142: Lisa Herzog - Citizen Knowledge
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Feb 21, 2024 |
Episode 141: Kristi Sweet - Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment
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Jan 29, 2024 |
Episode 140: Kevin Elliott - Democracy for Busy People
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Jan 10, 2024 |
Episode 139: Christopher Yeomans - The Politics of German Idealism
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Dec 20, 2023 |
Episode 138: Melvin Rogers - The Darkened Light of Faith
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Nov 29, 2023 |
Episode 137: Constantine Vassiliou - Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment
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Nov 17, 2023 |
Episode 136: Stefan Eich - The Currency of Politics
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Nov 07, 2023 |
Episode 135: Kevin Vallier - All the Kingdoms of the World
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Oct 25, 2023 |
Episode 134: John Scott - Rousseau's God
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Oct 04, 2023 |
Episode 133: Yascha Mounk - The Identity Trap
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Sep 24, 2023 |
Episode 132: Haig Patapan - A Dangerous Passion
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Sep 13, 2023 |
Episode 131: Philip Pettit - The State
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Aug 29, 2023 |
Episode 130: Melissa Lane - Of Rule and Office
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Aug 22, 2023 |
Episode 129: Donovan Miyasaki - Nietzsche's Immoralism and Politics after Morality
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Aug 16, 2023 |
Episode 128: David James - Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy
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Aug 01, 2023 |
Episode 127: Ewa Atanassow - Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours
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Jul 20, 2023 |
Episode 126: Thomas Pangle - The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries
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Jun 27, 2023 |
Episode 125: Laurence Cooper - Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom
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Jun 26, 2023 |
Episode 124: Jeanne Morefield - Unsettling the World
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Jun 09, 2023 |
Episode 123: Mathias Thaler - No Other Planet
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May 16, 2023 |
Episode 122: Eric MacGilvray - Liberal Freedom
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Apr 26, 2023 |
Episode 121: Richard Velkley - Sarastro's Cave
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Apr 05, 2023 |
Episode 120: Frederick Neuhouser - Diagnosing Social Pathology
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Mar 31, 2023 |
Episode 119: Rebecca Kingston - Plutarch's Prism
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Mar 10, 2023 |
Episode 118: Michael Walzer - A Struggle for a Decent Politics
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Mar 07, 2023 |
Episode 117: Nicholas Tampio - Teaching Political Theory
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Feb 10, 2023 |
Episode 116: Charles Zug - Demagogues in American Politics
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Jan 24, 2023 |
Episode 115: Susan Shell - The Politics of Beauty
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Jan 10, 2023 |
Episode 114: Michael Zuckert - A Nation So Conceived
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Jan 03, 2023 |
Episode 113: Christopher Beem - The Seven Democratic Virtues
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Dec 20, 2022 |
Episode 112: Jeffrey Church - Kant, Liberalism, and the Meaning of Life
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Dec 02, 2022 |
Episode 111: Ben Jones - Apocalypse without God
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Nov 30, 2022 |
Episode 110: Emma Saunders-Hastings, "Private Virtues, Public Vices"
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Nov 10, 2022 |
Episode 109: Lee Ward - Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy
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Oct 06, 2022 |
Episode 108: Mary Keys - Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine's City of God
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Sep 14, 2022 |
Episode 107: Guido Parietti - On the Concept of Power
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Aug 18, 2022 |
Episode 106: Rob Goodman - Words on Fire
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Jul 29, 2022 |
Episode 105: Terry Pinkard - Practice, Power, and Forms of Life
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Jul 13, 2022 |
Episode 104: Ann Ward - The Socratic Individual
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Jun 20, 2022 |
Episode 103: Michael Sandel - The Tyranny of Merit
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Jun 01, 2022 |
Episode 102: Joshua Cherniss - Liberalism in Dark Times
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May 23, 2022 |
Episode 101: Michael Hawley - Natural Law Republicanism
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May 16, 2022 |
Episode 100: The Process of Writing a Political Theory Book - Episode 100 special
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May 09, 2022 |
Episode 99: Arthur Ripstein - Kant and the Law of War
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Mar 29, 2022 |
Episode 98: Rita Koganzon - Liberal States, Authoritarian Families
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Mar 14, 2022 |
Episode 97: Lucia Rafanelli - Promoting Justice Across Borders
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Feb 15, 2022 |
Episode 96: Colin Bird - Human Dignity and Political Criticism
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Jan 27, 2022 |
Episode 95: Paul Franco - Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human
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Jan 04, 2022 |
Episode 94: Chiara Cordelli - The Privatized State
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Dec 10, 2021 |
Episode 93: Aaron Herold - The Democratic Soul
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Nov 10, 2021 |
Episode 92: Lorna Bracewell - Why We Lost the Sex Wars
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Oct 20, 2021 |
Episode 91: Mauro Caraccioli - Writing the New World
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Sep 27, 2021 |
Episode 90: Adriana Alfaro Altamirano - The Belief in Intuition
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Sep 08, 2021 |
Episode 89: Michelle Schwarze - Recognizing Resentment
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Aug 16, 2021 |
Episode 88: Sinja Graf - The Humanity of Universal Crime
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Jul 30, 2021 |
Episode 87: Dean Moyar - Hegel's Value
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Jul 13, 2021 |
Episode 86: Jason Frank - The Democratic Sublime
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Jun 24, 2021 |
Episode 85: Benjamin and Jenna Storey - Why We are Restless
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Jun 10, 2021 |