The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast
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The ANDREA MITCHELL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY aims not just to promote, but to understand, democracy. Global in its outlook, multifaceted in its purposes, the Mitchell Center seeks to contribute to the ongoing quest for democratic values, ideas, and institutions throughout the world. In THE ANDREA MITCHELL CENTER PODCAST, we interview scholars, journalists, and public thinkers grappling with the challenges facing our democracy. Many of the episodes are linked to our other programming, such as our 2018-19 "Democracy in Trouble?" series, our 2019-20 "Reverberations of Inequality" series, and our ongoing "Capitalism / Socialism / Democracy." Other episodes are one-off interviews with scholars associated with the Mitchell Center -- or with thinkers whose work is central to our effort to understand democracy in all of its complexity.
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Episode 7.17: The Forgotten Civil Rights Legacy of Congressman Charles C. Diggs, Jr.
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Episode 7.16: Fortress Power: How Design Shapes Control and Resistance
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Episode 7.15: Presidential Words Matter: A Conversation with Obama Speechwriter Cody Keenan
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Episode 7.14: Politics Can Still Be Local: A Discussion with Pennsylvania State Rep Candidate Leo Solga
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Episode 7.13: Democracy as a Public Health Intervention
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Episode 7.12: A Philadelphia Church and the West African Revival, 1918–1929
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Episode 7.11: Marriage, the Welfare State, and the Politics of "Family Values"
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Episode 7.10: Democracy as Dispersion of Power: A Conversation with Samuel Bagg
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Episode 7.9: Unlimited Money, Limited Oversight: Virginia's Democracy on Trial
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Episode 7.8: Socialism, Logically: Scott Sehon on Rights, Welfare, and Markets
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Episode 7.7: Stemming the Tide of Vaccine Refusal: Beyond MAHA's Vision of Patient Empowerment
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Episode 7.6: Credibility in Prisons
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Episode 7.5: Trump and the Era of Ungoverning: A Discussion with Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Episode 7.4: The Age of Choice: A Conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Episode 7.3: Rethinking the COVID Era: A Conversation with Frances Lee and Stephen Macedo
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Episode 7.2: Brazil's Pink Tide and the Politics of Redistribution
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Episode 7.1: The Workings of Canadian Democracy in the Shadow of Trump
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Episode 6.15: Panic Wisely: Navigating Collapse in an Age of Crisis
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May 13, 2025 |
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Episode 6.14: Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands
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May 06, 2025 |
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Episode 6.13: Democracy's New Frontier: Integrating Ecosystems into Political Communities
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Episode 6.12: Dying Abroad: A Conversation with Osman Balkan
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Episode 6.11: The Path Ahead for Syrian Reconstruction
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Episode 6.10: Fetal Personhood, Bodily Autonomy and the Roe Not Taken
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Episode 6.9: A Conversation with Slavoj Žižek
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Episode 6.8: Seeking the Fifth Voice: A Journey into American History and Democracy
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Episode 6.7: We the People: How Citizens Prevented Past Presidents from Permanently Breaking American Democracy
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Episode 6.6: Battleground PA: Voters, Values, and the Fight for the Future
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Episode 6.5: Ian Lustick on Israel-Gaza and the United States
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Episode 6.4: Socialism as an Alternative to Liberal Democracy? A Conversation with Peter Frase
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Episode 6.3: Indian Democracy Between Elections: A Conversation with Professor Lisa Mitchell
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Episode 6.2: Corruption and Code: How Data Centers are Shaping Virginia's Future
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Episode 6.1: Environmental Policy in Peril: A Conversation with Professor Eric Orts
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Episode 5.15: Bonds Beyond Borders: Affect and Memory in the Yugoslav People's Army
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May 09, 2024 |
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Episode 5.14: Professor Anne Norton on Wild Democracy
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May 01, 2024 |
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Episode 5.13: The Erosion of Democracy: Dr. Robin S. Brooks on Democratic Backsliding
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Episode 5.12: Rep Mikie Sherrill on Whether the Bipartisan Consensus on Foreign Policy Will Hold and on Threats to American Democracy
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Episode 5.11: Rhiana Gunn-Wright on Climate Policy: From Ideals to Action
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Episode 5.10: Disinformation is a Threat to Democracy Says Barbara McQuade
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Episode 5.9: Why is the Immigration System Broken? Jonathan Blitzer on How American Foreign Policy in Central America Created a Crisis
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Episode 5.8: Unveiling Anti-Blackness: A Transnational Dialogue
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Episode 5.7: Powering Progress: Navigating Energy Justice with Benjamin Sovacool
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Episode 5.6: Liberalism in Dark Times: A Conversation with Professor Joshua Cherniss
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Episode 5.5: Navigating Justice: A Day in the Life of Assistant District Attorney Helena von Nagy
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Episode 5.4: Truth and Transparency: Navigating Virginia's 2023 Elections - Josh Stanfield
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Episode 5.3: Bringing Possibility Back In: Political Hope in Theory and Practice – Loren Goldman
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Episode 5.2: The End of Greenwashing? How Two California Bills Promote Climate Accountability – Michael Gerrard and Eric Orts
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Episode 5.1: The Majority-World Experience of A.I. – Rigoberto Lara Guzmán and Ranjit Singh
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Episode 4.15: The Debt Ceiling Crisis: Is There a Plan B? – Eric Orts
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May 26, 2023 |
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Episode 4.14: Beyond the Moment of Protest: Can Social Movements Be More Robust Than the Systems They Oppose? – Rachel Kuo
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May 17, 2023 |
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Episode 4.13: The Vulnerabilities We Choose: Emergent Tech, Emerging Threats – Rebecca Slayton
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Episode 4.12: Adapting to the End of U.S. Technological Dominance – Melissa Flagg
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Episode 4.11: The Amazon Labor Union and the Future of American Work – Chris Smalls
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Episode 4.10: From Smart Cities to Co-Cities: Tech, Community, and Urban Life – Sheila Foster
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Episode 4.9: Black Software: The Technological Lead-ups to Black Lives Matter – Charlton McIlwain
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Episode 4.8: Eyes on the Street 2.0: The Uses and Abuses of Urban Tech – Shannon Mattern
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Episode 4.7: Sovereign Are They Who Decide the Exception: The Power Elite and State Criminality – Aaron Good
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Episode 4.6: The Election Victory That Saved Brazilian Democracy – Marilene Felinto
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Episode 4.5: At the Threshold of Annexation: Israelis, Palestinians and the One-State Reality – Ian Lustick
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Episode 4.4: The Fight to Bring Democracy to Virginia – Josh Stanfield
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Episode 4.3: Authoritarian Information Manipulation: Beyond Troll Farms and Fake News – Jessica Brandt
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Episode 4.2: Tupinambá de Olivença: Indigenous Territory and Environmental Rights in Brazil – Glicéria Tupinambá
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Episode 4.1: Enemy of the State: Untangling the Case of Matt DeHart – Sonia Kennebeck
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Episode 3.16: The Grip of History in Post-Apartheid South Africa – Carolyn E. Holmes
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Episode 3.15: Made to Eat Dirt: The Rhetoric and Politics of Humiliation – Roxanne Euben
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Episode 3.14: Dark Mirror: How the West Imagines Itself Through Imagining Russia – Sean Guillory
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May 20, 2022 |
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Episode 3.13: Naming the Problem: Capitalism is the Crisis – Richard Wolff
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May 06, 2022 |
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Episode 3.12: The Jim Crow South: Myths and Realities – Adolph Reed
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Episode 3.11: Beyond the Ruins of Neoliberalism – Wendy Brown
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Episode 3.10: The Eroding Foundations of Putin's Power – Ilya Matveev
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Episode 3.9: The Capitalist Roots of the Arab Spring and Its Aftermath – Joel Beinin
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Episode 3.8: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine – Rashid Khalidi
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Episode 3.7: Reports of Neoliberalism's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated – Martijn Konings
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Episode 3.6: Universal Suffrage: From Revolutionary Project to Minimalist Politics – Kevin Duong
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Episode 3.5: The Fingerprints of Intelligence: Allen Dulles and the Kennedy Assassination – David Talbot
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Episode 3.4: Politics in the Time of Climate Change – Eric Orts
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Episode 3.3: No Easy Answers: A Conversation with Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 3.2: Do Presidents Have the Right to Lie (or Do We Have the Right to Stop Them)? – Catherine J. Ross
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Episode 3.1: Enemies by Choice: U.S.-Iranian Relations in the Long View – John Ghazvinian
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Episode 2.16: No Nation Is an Island: Rethinking How Borders Should Work – Paulina Ochoa Espejo
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May 18, 2021 |
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Episode 2.15: The Double Life of Violence: Social Discourse, Personal Agency, and the Unresolved Meanings of a Key Term – Matt Shafer
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May 04, 2021 |
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Episode 2.14: Climate Apartheid, Racial Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy - Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Episode 2.13: The Scandalous Secret History of the First Amendment - Fara Dabhoiwala
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Episode 2.12: Academic Freedom and the Work of the University - Joan Wallach Scott
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Episode 2.11: On Social Media, the Personal Is Political - Jaime Settle
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Episode 2.10: "Hurt Sentiments" and Forbidden Speech in India - Neeti Nair
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Episode 2.9: The 100-Million Dollar Question: Is The University of Pennsylvania Really Paying Its Fair Share?
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Episode 2.8: The Fall of the Party of Lincoln: A Conversation with Tara Setmayer
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Episode 2.7: Art, Activism, and Putin: A Conversation with Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Episode 2.6: Countering White Nationalism: A View from the Inside – Derek Black
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Episode 2.5: Hate Speech: The Case Against Censorship – Nadine Strossen
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Episode 2.4: Bad Populism, Good Populism – Rogers Smith
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Episode 2.3: Bulwark of the Opulent Minority: Can the Senate Ever Be Democratic?
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Episode 2.2: Restoring a Rules-Based World: A Conversation with Gen. Wesley Clark
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Episode 2.1: Roy Cohn: His Life, Misdeeds, and Inescapable Legacy
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Episode 1.21: After Bern: Progressive Activist Winnie Wong on the Future of a Movement
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May 29, 2020 |
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Episode 1.20: The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex - Lila Corwin Berman
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May 22, 2020 |
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Episode 1.19: Thinking Beyond Universal Peace: How Our Highest Ideal Underwrites Violence - Murad Idris
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May 15, 2020 |
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Episode 1.18: Fifty-State Anarchy: The Failed Federal Response to Covid-19 - Eric Orts
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May 08, 2020 |
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Episode 1.17: The Class Ceiling: How Privilege Shapes British Careers - Sam Friedman
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May 01, 2020 |
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Episode 1.16: A World Without Police: Toward the Abolitionist Horizon - George Ciccariello-Maher
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Apr 24, 2020 |