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Episode Date
Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II with Tejasvi Nagaraja (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
Oct 25, 2026
Jefferson’s Wolf: A Founding Father’s Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery with Christa Dierksheide and Nicholas Guyatt (Belknap Press, 2026)
Oct 25, 2026
Revolutionary Ink: New York Printers and the Promise of Democracy, 1693-1804 with Mark J. Noonan (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Oct 24, 2026
Outed: LBJ’s Confidant and the Arrest that Transformed a Presidency with Timothy Stewart-Winter (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Oct 23, 2026
Parties on the Ground: A Study of Nominations for the House of Representatives with Kathleen Bawn and Knox Brown (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Oct 20, 2026
Presidentess: The Life of First Lady Julia Gardner Tyler with Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy (UP of Kansas, 2026)
Oct 16, 2026
The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution with Jesse Wegman (Celadon Books, 2026)
Oct 15, 2026
Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How It Went Mainstream with Dixie Dillon Lane (Eerdmans, 2026)
Oct 15, 2026
Chicana Spiritual Activism: Making Change, Making Soul with Brenda L. Sendejo (U Arizona Press, 2026)
Oct 13, 2026
Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic with George D. Oberle (U Virginia Press, 2025)
Oct 11, 2026
Crime and No Punishment: Wealth, Power, and Violence in America with Marie Gottschalk (Princeton UP, 2026)
Oct 11, 2026
Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing Of 1976 with Kevin Galvin (Brandeis UP, 2026)
Oct 11, 2026
God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America with Jacob Ware (Columbia UP, 2024)
Oct 10, 2026
The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915
Oct 08, 2026
A Healthy Union: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health with Susan Kaplan (Island Press, 2025)
Oct 07, 2026
Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession with Nicolas Guilhot (Harvard UP, 2026)
Oct 06, 2026
Kennedy’s Only Hero: How JFK’s Obsession with Winston Churchill Defined His Presidency with Joel Nelson (Public Affairs, 2026)
Oct 01, 2026
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington with Marcia Chatelain
Sep 29, 2026
Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours with Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano (Liveright, 2026)
Sep 28, 2026
Antisemitism, an American Tradition with Pamela S. Nadell (Norton, 2025)
Sep 25, 2026
What Is Life Worth? New Edition with Reflections 25 Years After 9/11 with Kenneth R. Feinberg (Rivertowns, 2026)
Sep 25, 2026
Driven to Their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics with Roxanne L. Euben (Princeton UP, 2025)
Sep 25, 2026
Sara C Bronin, "Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World" (Norton, 2024)
Sep 24, 2026
The Nature of Freedom: On the Republican Tradition with Philip Pettit
Sep 23, 2026
Samantha Barbas, "Hate Speech: The Legal and Cultural History of an American Dilemma" (U California Press, 2026)
Sep 15, 2026
Jennifer Hoewe, "Enjoyment Is Breaking News: How We Became Less Informed and More Divided (and How to Fix It)" (MIT Press, 2026)
Sep 13, 2026
Christopher Freeburg, "Soul: A Brief History of Black Cultural Life" (Yale UP, 2026)
Sep 11, 2026
Michael E. Neagle, "Chasing Bandits: America's Long War on Terror" (UNC Press, 2025)
Sep 11, 2026
William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe, "Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the Strongman Presidency" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Sep 10, 2026
Leah C. Stokes, "The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet" (MIT Press, 2026)
Sep 06, 2026
Marita Sturken, "Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era" (NYU Press, 2022)
Sep 06, 2026
Robert Shum, "Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?: Climate and Energy Politics between Crisis and Decarbonization" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Sep 05, 2026
Holly N. S. White, "Constructing American Childhood: Age-Based Laws and the Illusion of Protection in the Early United States" (U Virginia Press, 2026)
Sep 03, 2026
The Political Philosophy of Mark Twain: On His Absurd, Noble Americans with Ivan Kenneally
Sep 02, 2026
Eran A. Zelnik, "American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750–1850" (JHU Press, 2025)
Aug 31, 2026
Catherine Reyes-Housholder, "How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America" (Temple UP, 2026)
Aug 28, 2026
Eran Shalev, "The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation" (U Virginia Press, 2025)
Aug 24, 2026
Sandeep Vaheesan, "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 22, 2026
China Comes to Town: Chinese Investment and Local Politics in the U.S. with Emily Conrad
Aug 21, 2026
Ashanté M. Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
Aug 21, 2026
Seth Masket, "The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Aug 20, 2026
Beronda L. Montgomery, "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy" (Henry Holt & Co.)
Aug 18, 2026
Kiara Wyndham, "Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2026)
Aug 17, 2026
Daniel Byman, "American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Aug 14, 2026
Kathleen J. Frydl, "Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 13, 2026
Bordering On Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality
Aug 13, 2026
John E. McDonough, "America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Aug 11, 2026
David N. Gellman, "Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Aug 10, 2026
Georgia Kernell, "Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Aug 06, 2026
Matthew Pinsker, "Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln" (Norton, 2026)
Aug 05, 2026
Emily Sneff, "When the Declaration of Independence Was News" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Aug 03, 2026
Eric O Silva, "Contested Realities and Identity Destigmatization: Identity Construction in the Culture Wars" (De Gruyter, 2026)
Aug 02, 2026
Steven K. Green, "American Infidelity: The Gilded Age Battle Over Freethought, Free Love, and Feminism" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jul 29, 2026
Lisa Blaydes and Samuel Helfont eds., "Ba‘thist Iraq Through Archives: Reflections, Explorations, and Opportunities" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Jul 29, 2026
Samuel Moyn, "Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It" (FSG, 2026)
Jul 25, 2026
Cast Out: A Call For A Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration
Jul 23, 2026
Julia R. Azari, "Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jul 23, 2026
Michael Patrick Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Court Cabinet" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
Jul 22, 2026
R. Joseph Parrott, "Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Jul 21, 2026
Kurt Warner, "False Idols: How Diversion is Destroying Democracy" (Vernon Press, 2024)
Jul 21, 2026
Richard Bell, "The American Revolution and the Fate of the World" (Penguin, 2025)
Jul 20, 2026
Martin Fitzgerald, "The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk about When We Talk about the JFK Assassination" (Biteback Publishing, 2026)
Jul 19, 2026
US 250: A Conversation with Peter John Loewen
Jul 18, 2026
Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers" (MIT Press, 2026)
Jul 17, 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
Nelson Lichtenstein on Clinton and Neoliberalism
Jul 13, 2026
The Emerging Anocracy: AI, Tech Oligarchs, and the Future of Democracy with Alexis Cruz
Jul 12, 2026
Diana Cucuz, "Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Jul 11, 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
Doubled Up: Shared Households and the Precarious Lives of Families
Jul 09, 2026
250 Years of Special Providence: On American Grand Strategy Since the Declaration with Walter Russell Mead
Jul 03, 2026
Anna Terwiel offers A Moment of No to the Prison-Industrial Complex (JP)
Jul 02, 2026
Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
Jul 02, 2026
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys
Jul 01, 2026
The Once and Future Republic: On Cicero, Locke, and the Making of America with Michael C. Hawley
Jul 01, 2026
Daniel Krcmaric, "Above the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Jun 30, 2026
Sharron Wilkins Conrad, "The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory" (UNC Press, 2026)
Jun 27, 2026
John K. Roth, "Saving the American Dream: Meditations for Dark Times" (Wipf and Stock, 2026)
Jun 26, 2026
Robin Dembroff, "Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jun 22, 2026
Jeremy J. Holland, "The Political Worldviews of American Social Movements: Partisan Politics and the Future of Democracy" (Routledge, 2026)
Jun 21, 2026
Inside the Mississippi Marathon: How Mississippi Dramatically Improved Its Education System with Rachel Canter
Jun 19, 2026
Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober
Jun 17, 2026
Anna Harwell Celenza, "On the Record: Music that Changed America (Norton, 2026)
Jun 17, 2026
Robert Suits, "The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 16, 2026
Pamela Walker Laird, "Self-Made: The Stories that Forged an American Myth" (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Jun 14, 2026
Poet-Prophet of American Democracy: Walt Whitman’s Vital Political Prose
Jun 13, 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
Karine Premont and Christopher J. Devine eds., "Second in Command: Reevaluating the Role of Vice Presidents and Running Mates in Modern American Politics" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
Jun 11, 2026
“America’s Founding Son”: Author & Musician Bob Crawford on the Life of John Quincy Adams
Jun 11, 2026
Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
Jun 08, 2026
Ladan Rahbari and Olga Burlyuk eds., "From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity" (Open Book Publishers, 2026)
Jun 08, 2026
Bruce Dearstyne, "Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change" (SUNY Press, 2026)
Jun 08, 2026
Kristian Williams, "Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising" (AK Press, 2026)
Jun 07, 2026
Michael Brownstein et al., "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change" (MIT Press, 2025)
Jun 06, 2026
Ann Carlson, "Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air" (U California Press, 2026)
Jun 06, 2026
David Cunningham on Contesting Confederate Monuments (JP)
Jun 04, 2026
Joanna Dee Das, "Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
May 31, 2026
Julie J. Park, "Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era" (Harvard Education Press, 2026)
May 31, 2026
Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 30, 2026
Kevin Warsh: "What did you have to say in order to get this job?"
May 30, 2026
The Instigators
May 28, 2026
Oscar Winberg, "Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics" (UNC Press, 2025)
May 26, 2026
Why Elected Leaders Subvert Democracy
May 26, 2026
Julia F. Irwin, "Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century" (UNC Press, 2023)
May 25, 2026
Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)
May 25, 2026
Jason S. Spicer, "Co-Operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective: Exceptionally Un-American?" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 24, 2026
Stuart Schrader, "Blue Power: How Police Organized to Serve and Protect Themselves" (Basic Books, 2026)
May 23, 2026
Mary T. Freeman, "Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
May 23, 2026
Kori Schake, "The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States" (Wiley, 2025)
May 21, 2026
Debating the Constitution: On Originalism's Most Pressing Quarrels with Sherif Girgis
May 20, 2026
Inken Von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas, "Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change” (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 18, 2026
Heather Ann Thompson, "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" (Pantheon, 2026)
May 18, 2026
Justin Randolph, "Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside (UNC Press, 2026)
May 17, 2026
Gordon Simmons, "Mutiny in the Mountains: West Virginia Public Workers, 1969-2019" (PM Press, 2026)
May 15, 2026
Stephen F. Knott, "Conspirator in Chief: The Long Tradition of Conspiracy Theories in the American Presidency" (UP Kansas, 2025)
May 15, 2026
Amy D. McDowell, "Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America" (NYU Press, 2026)
May 14, 2026
Charles L. Glaser, "Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America's Future Against a Rising China" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 13, 2026
Kira Ganga Kieffer, "Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 13, 2026
Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode With Her" (Sourcebooks, 2026)
May 10, 2026
Brenda Boyle, "American War Stories" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
May 10, 2026
Rachel Grace Newman, "The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite" (U California Press, 2026)
May 10, 2026
Steffen Mau et al., "The Trigger Points: Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" (Policy Press, 2026)
May 09, 2026
Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
May 09, 2026
Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 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
What Does the American Presidency Mean?
May 05, 2026
Lerone Martin, "Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr." (Amistad, 2026)
May 05, 2026
Alice Echols, "Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic" (Oxford UP, 2026)
May 03, 2026
Daniel Gross, "Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World" (Haymarket, 2026)
May 03, 2026
Scott Kurashige, "American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism" (U California Press, 2026)
May 02, 2026
Samira K. Mehta, "God Bless the Pill: The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion" (UNC Press, 2026)
Apr 30, 2026
Assessing Global Democratic Health Amidst a Growing Shadow of Autocracy
Apr 27, 2026
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State: A Conversation with Stephen Sims
Apr 27, 2026
Caste and Race: Ambedkar and King with the Ambedkar King Study Circle
Apr 27, 2026
The Crisis of American Political Economy: On the New Conservative Policy Agenda with Chris Griswold
Apr 22, 2026
Ladder or Lottery? Gary Hoover on the Consequences of Broken Economic Promises
Apr 20, 2026
Nathaniel Greenberg, "The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in Arabic After 9/11" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Apr 19, 2026
Victor Li, "Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Apr 16, 2026
Alisa Kessel, "Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Apr 16, 2026
Larry M. Bartels and Katherine J. Cramer, "The Politics of Social Change: From the Sixties to the Present Through the Eyes of a Generation" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Apr 15, 2026
Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)
Apr 15, 2026
Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era
Apr 14, 2026
David-James Gonzales, "Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, California" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Apr 14, 2026
John Bechtold, "U.S. Militarism and the Terrain of Memory: Negotiating Dead Space" (Taylor & Francis, 2024)
Apr 12, 2026
Jasper Bernes, "The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising" (Verso Books, 2025)
Apr 12, 2026
Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic with Mia Bennett
Apr 11, 2026
Melissa Butcher, "The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Apr 07, 2026
David Ost, "Red Pill Politics: Demystifying Today's Far Right" (New Press, 2026)
Mar 31, 2026
Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Mar 30, 2026
Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman, "The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation into the National Security State" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2026)
Mar 29, 2026
Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 28, 2026
Sarah James, "The Politics of Failed Policies" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Mar 27, 2026
Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Mar 26, 2026
Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress" (JHU Press, 2026)
Mar 26, 2026
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis
Mar 25, 2026
David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 23, 2026
Doug Crandell, "Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Mar 21, 2026
Sunmin Kim, "The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Mar 19, 2026
Our Age of War: A Discussion with Author Robert Pape
Mar 18, 2026
A.J. Bauer, "Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against The Press" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Mar 18, 2026
Abe Walker, "Reassembling the UAW: Insurgency, Contention, and the Struggle for Unionism in the American South" (Temple UP, 2026)
Mar 17, 2026
Alec Ryrie, "The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It" (Reaktion, 2025)
Mar 15, 2026
Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee, "Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2026) 
Mar 14, 2026
Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Mar 14, 2026
Matthew Moran et al., "Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Mar 14, 2026
Jessica Ann Levy, "Black Power, Inc.: Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
Mar 13, 2026
Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Mar 12, 2026
Katelyn E. Stauffer, "The Politics of Perception: How Beliefs About Women’s Inclusion Shape Democratic Legitimacy in the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2025)
Mar 12, 2026
Understanding Iran Under Attack: A Discussion with Author Vali Nasr
Mar 12, 2026
Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress
Mar 10, 2026
Danielle Wiggins, "Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Mar 08, 2026
The Cave and the Coalition: Philosophy, Populism, and the MAGA New Right
Mar 07, 2026
Amy Littlefield, "Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" (Legacy Lit, 2026)
Mar 06, 2026
Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)
Mar 04, 2026
Seth S. Tannenbaum, "Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark" (U Illinois Press, 2026)
Mar 03, 2026
Allison Carnegie and Richard Clark, "Global Governance Under Fire: How International Organizations Resist the Populist Wave" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Mar 02, 2026
Aaron Donaghy, "The Second Cold War: Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Mar 01, 2026
Barbie Zelizer, "How the Cold War Broke the News: The Surprising Roots of Journalism's Decline" (Polity, 2025)
Feb 28, 2026
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Feb 27, 2026
Jamila Michener and Mallory E. Sorelle, "Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Feb 25, 2026
Stephen Stacks, "The Resounding Revolution: Freedom Song After 1968" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
Feb 24, 2026
Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 21, 2026
Thomas Zeitzoff, "No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Feb 19, 2026
Kenneth Lowande, "False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Feb 19, 2026
Trump, the UN Charter, and the Strange Politics of International Law
Feb 17, 2026
Cassandra Shepard, "Settler Colonialism is the Disaster: A Critique of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina and During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (U Illinois Press, 2026)
Feb 15, 2026
Competing Visions for International Order
Feb 13, 2026
Heather Ann Thompson, "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" (Pantheon, 2026)
Feb 12, 2026
Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Feb 12, 2026
Mark Stout, "World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Feb 11, 2026
Ron Hayduk, "Untangling the Political Roots of Immigration and Inequality in the United States" (Routledge, 2026)
Feb 10, 2026
Charles Alistair McCrary, "Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Feb 09, 2026
Ashlyn Hand, "Prioritizing Faith: International Religious Freedom and U.S. Foreign Policy" (NYU Press, 2025)
Feb 08, 2026
Garrett Felber, "A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre" (AK Press, 2025)
Feb 06, 2026
Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi)
Feb 04, 2026
Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)
Feb 03, 2026
Michael Casiano, "Let Us Alone: The Origins of Baltimore's Police State" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
Feb 01, 2026
Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
Jan 31, 2026
Betty Boyd Caroli, "A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jan 28, 2026
Kimberley Johnson, "Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Jan 25, 2026
Terence Keel, "The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence" (Beacon Press, 2025)
Jan 23, 2026
Richard A. Falk and Hans von Sponeck, "Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Jan 22, 2026
Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)
Jan 22, 2026
Emilie Connolly, "Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jan 21, 2026
Andrew Burstein, "Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Jan 21, 2026
Yunus Emre Ozigci, "NATO’s Meaning and Existence: Within the Interstate Intersubjectivity" (Vernon Press, 2026)
Jan 21, 2026
A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)
Jan 17, 2026
Zeke Hernandez, "The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Jan 16, 2026
Michael J. Illuzzi, "Mending the Nation: Reclaiming We The People in a Populist Age" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Jan 15, 2026
Jose Eos Trinidad, "Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jan 15, 2026
Steven J. Brady, "Less Than Victory: American Catholics and the Vietnam War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jan 13, 2026
Stephen Skowronek, "The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Jan 12, 2026
Mary E. Stuckey, "Remembering Jefferson: Who He Was, Who We Are" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Jan 08, 2026
Matthew Davis, "A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Jan 06, 2026
What happens when liberalism stops feeling like a victory and starts feeling like an exhaustion?
Jan 05, 2026
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
Jan 04, 2026
Mary M. Burke, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 03, 2026
Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 31, 2025
Andrew Porwancher, "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Dec 28, 2025
Jack Z. Bratich, "On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death" (Common Notions, 2022)
Dec 28, 2025
Paul Kelly, "Against Postliberalism: Why ‘Family, Faith and Flag’ is a Dead End for the Left" (Polity, 2025)
Dec 26, 2025
Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)
Dec 26, 2025
Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Dec 18, 2025
Matt Sleat, "Post-Liberalism" (Polity, 2025)
Dec 12, 2025
James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs, "Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future" (Freegovinfo Press, 2025)
Dec 11, 2025
161 One Battle After Another: A West Newton Cinema Discussion with Peter Coviello and Ethan Warren (JP)
Dec 04, 2025
Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 02, 2025
Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing, 2022)
Nov 29, 2025
Philip Rocco, "Counting Like a State: How Intergovernmental Partnerships Shaped the 2020 US Census" (UP Kansas, 2025)
Nov 27, 2025
Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
Nov 27, 2025
Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Nov 23, 2025
David Chanoff, "Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
Nov 22, 2025
John Bodnar, "Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/11" (UNC Press, 2021)
Nov 22, 2025
Margaret Grace Myers, "The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine" (Beacon Press, 2025)
Nov 21, 2025
Simon Appleford, "Drawing Liberalism: Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Nov 21, 2025
Can America Still Lead? Foreign Policy in an Age of Division with Joel Rubin
Nov 21, 2025
Nicholas Buccola, "One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American Ideal" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Nov 19, 2025
Emily Winderman, "Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 2025)
Nov 19, 2025
On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore
Nov 18, 2025
Philip Nash, "Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 17, 2025
Lucy Caplan, "Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Nov 15, 2025
Miranda S. Spivack, "Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back" (The New Press, 2025)
Nov 14, 2025
David T. Beito, "FDR: A New Political Life" (Open Universe, 2025)
Nov 07, 2025
House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
Nov 06, 2025
Diane T. Feldman, "Borrowed Land, Stolen Labor, and the Holy Spirit: The Struggle for Power and Equality in Holmes County, Mississippi" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
Nov 06, 2025
Carol Mason, "From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary" (U California Press, 2025)
Nov 05, 2025
Jack B. Greenberg and John A. Dearborn, "Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Nov 05, 2025
Linda Upham-Bornstein, "'Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender': Taxpayers’ Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression" (Temple UP, 2023)
Nov 02, 2025
Rachel Myrick, "Polarization and International Politics: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Nov 01, 2025
Rob Wells, "The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Oct 31, 2025
Diane Ravitch, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Oct 28, 2025
Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries
Oct 28, 2025
Patrick Parr, "Malcolm Before X" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
Oct 26, 2025
Matthew D. Nelsen, "The Color of Civics: Civic Education for a Multiracial Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 23, 2025
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2025
Andrea Freeman, "Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: America’s Politics of Food, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
Oct 17, 2025
Rehan Abeyratne, "Courts and LGBTQ+ Rights in an Age of Judicial Retrenchment" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Oct 16, 2025
Naomi R. Williams, "A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
Oct 12, 2025
Melissa M. Matthes, "When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Oct 11, 2025
Kevin M. Schultz, "Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Oct 10, 2025
Clay Risen, "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Oct 08, 2025
Marion Orr, "House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr." (UNC Press, 2025)
Oct 06, 2025
Jill Elaine Hasday, "We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Oct 05, 2025
Raymond J. McKoski, "David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
Oct 03, 2025
Madison Schramm, "Why Democracies Fight Dictators" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Oct 03, 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
Ecodefense: Dave Foreman and Earth First!’s Deep Ecology
Sep 25, 2025
Authoritarian Ideas, Old and New: From Schmitt to “JD”
Sep 24, 2025
Edward Fishman, "Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare" (Portfolio, 2025)
Sep 23, 2025
Nicholas Bromell, "The Time is Always Now: Black Political Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2013)
Sep 23, 2025
Tim Weiner, "The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century" (Mariner Books, 2025)
Sep 22, 2025
Jonathan White and Lucas Morel, "Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln" (Reedy Press, 2025)
Sep 20, 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
Sarah Schulman, "The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity" (Penguin, 2025)
Sep 19, 2025
Rebecca Nagle, "By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land" (Harper, 2024)
Sep 17, 2025
Michael Poznansky, "Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes US Foreign Policy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Sep 16, 2025
Celene Reynolds, "Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Sep 16, 2025
Peter Sparding, "No Better Friend? The United States and Germany Since 1945" (Hurst, 2024)
Sep 12, 2025
Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, "Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Sep 11, 2025
Ariel Colonomos, "Pricing Lives: The Political Art of Measurement" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 09, 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
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump" (Random House, 2025)
Sep 06, 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
Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865-1965" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Sep 01, 2025
Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Aug 29, 2025
The end of aid? US, China, and the future of development
Aug 28, 2025
Russell T. McCutcheon, "Religion and the Domestication of Dissent: Or, How to Live in a Less Than Perfect Nation" (Routledge, 2025)
Aug 28, 2025
Tom Arnold-Forster, "Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Aug 27, 2025
Elaine Weiss, "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Aug 26, 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
Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton, 2019)
Aug 24, 2025
K. Ian Shin, "Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America's Pacific Century" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Aug 23, 2025
Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution" (LSU Press, 2024)
Aug 23, 2025
Citizenship Stripping: You Are Not American
Aug 21, 2025
Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson, "Racial Resentment in the Political Mind" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Aug 18, 2025
Michael Hiltzik, "Golden State: The Making of California" (Mariner, 2025)
Aug 16, 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
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)
Aug 14, 2025
Edward Luce, "Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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
Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left" (Brill, 2025)
Aug 11, 2025
Jacob F. H. Smith, "Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Aug 11, 2025
Russell Shorto, “Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom” (Norton, 2017)
Aug 08, 2025
Robert Fitzgerald, "Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency" (UNC Press, 2025)
Aug 07, 2025
Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
Aug 06, 2025
Timothy W. Kneeland, "Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Aug 05, 2025
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Aug 04, 2025
Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Aug 03, 2025
Linda Gordon, "Seven Social Movements That Changed America" (LIveright, 2025)
Aug 02, 2025
How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking Democracy
Jul 31, 2025
Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Jul 28, 2025
Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine" (Routledge, 2024)
Jul 28, 2025
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Jul 25, 2025
Osita Nwanevu, "The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding" (Random House, 2025)
Jul 25, 2025
Luke A. Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election Of 1968" (Yale UP, 2024)
Jul 22, 2025
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, "Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
Jul 21, 2025
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
Jul 20, 2025
Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age" (UP Kansas, 2020)
Jul 20, 2025
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jul 19, 2025
Lily Hamourtziadou, "Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq" (Bristol UP, 2021)
Jul 16, 2025
Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jul 14, 2025
Aggie Hirst, "Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 13, 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
Dennard Dayle, "How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel" (Henry Holt, 2025)
Jul 06, 2025
Andrew Hartman, "Karl Marx in America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Jul 05, 2025
Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jul 04, 2025
Secrets of the Killing State
Jul 03, 2025
The attack on democracy in the United States, and the new resistance
Jul 03, 2025
Timothy Stacey, "Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Jul 02, 2025
Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, "Why America Didn't Become Great Again" (Routledge, 2025)
Jul 02, 2025
Eric Blanc, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
Jun 29, 2025
Ross A. Kennedy, "The United States and the Origins of World War II in Europe" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
Jun 28, 2025
Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 27, 2025
Louis P. Masur, "A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 26, 2025
Philip Kadish, "The Great White Hoax: Frauds, Forgeries, and 200 Years of Selling Racism in America"
Jun 24, 2025
Kevin J. Hayes, "Undaunted Mind: The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 23, 2025
Maraam A. Dwidar, "Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Jun 23, 2025
Stephan Kieninger, "The Diplomacy of Détente: Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz" (Routledge, 2018)
Jun 21, 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 20, 2025
Prema Kurien, "Claiming Citizenship: Race, Religion, and Political Mobilization Among New Americans" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 19, 2025
Atinuke O. Adediran, "Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jun 19, 2025
Rob Edwards, "Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls" (Stranger Comics, 2025)
Jun 17, 2025
David Zweig, "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions" (MIT Press, 2025)
Jun 12, 2025
Accents, Complex Identities, and Politics
Jun 11, 2025
The Freedom Academy
Jun 10, 2025
Jeffrey P. Rogg, "The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 09, 2025
Elizabeth N. Saunders, "The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 09, 2025
NATO, the Indo-Pacific, and the Future of Burden-Sharing: A Conversation with Brian Blankenship
Jun 07, 2025
Stephan Kieninger, "Dynamic Détente: The United States and Europe, 1964-1975" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)
Jun 07, 2025
Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)
Jun 06, 2025
Jill Kastner and William C. Wohlforth, "A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 06, 2025
James Graham Wilson, "America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Jun 05, 2025
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, "The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Jun 03, 2025
S4 E40 Interpretations of the Second Amendment: A Conversation with Joel Alicea
Jun 01, 2025
Jaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Jun 01, 2025
Karida L. Brown, "The Battle for the Black Mind" (Legacy Lit, 2025)
May 31, 2025
Michael D. Gambone, "The New Praetorians: American Veterans, Society, and Service from Vietnam to the Forever War" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
May 31, 2025
Postcript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
May 30, 2025
Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 29, 2025
False Dawn: A Conversation with George Selgin on Recovering from the Great Depression
May 29, 2025
William Haldeman, "Meeting the Moment: Inspiring Presidential Leadership That Transformed America" (SUNY Press, 2024)
May 28, 2025
How Do Autocrats Stay in Power: A Discussion with Johannes Gerschewski
May 27, 2025
Empire of Gain: Inside Trump’s Billion-Dollar Crypto Hustle
May 23, 2025
Book Talk 66: Political Hope, with Loren Goldman
May 22, 2025
Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell
May 21, 2025
Nicholas Barry et al., "Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics" (Routledge, 2025)
May 21, 2025
Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 20, 2025
The Price of Free Speech: Politics and Power on Campus
May 19, 2025
Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 18, 2025
Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
May 17, 2025
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
May 16, 2025
Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 15, 2025
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
May 14, 2025
Pollyanna Rhee, "Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
May 13, 2025
Ken Conca, "After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 12, 2025
Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 11, 2025
Nolan L. Cabrera and Robert S. Chang, "Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 10, 2025
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
May 09, 2025
Threats to Universities and What We Can Do: A Conversation with Brandice Canes Wrone
May 08, 2025
Benjamin Schrader, "Fight to Live, Live to Fight Veteran Activism after War: Veteran Activism after War" (SUNY Press, 2019)
May 07, 2025
Democracy for Sale: Death by Dark Money
May 06, 2025
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
May 05, 2025
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
May 04, 2025
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
May 03, 2025
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
May 02, 2025
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
May 01, 2025
Institutional Corruption in News Media: A Conversation with William English
Apr 30, 2025
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 28, 2025
The Good Father Syndrome: Why Strongmen Still Seduce
Apr 28, 2025
The Vote Gap: What’s Pulling Young Men and Women Apart?
Apr 27, 2025
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
Apr 26, 2025
Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 25, 2025
Steven Hahn, "Illiberal America: A History" (Norton, 2024)
Apr 24, 2025
Postscript: Political Scientists Ring Alarm Bell Over Trump’s Second Administration
Apr 21, 2025
Reginald K. Ellis et al., "Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation" (UP of Florida, 2025)
Apr 20, 2025
Michael Rosino, "Democracy Is Awkward: Grappling with Racism Inside American Grassroots Political Organizing" (UNC Press, 2025)
Apr 17, 2025
Constitutional Private Law: A Conversation with Garrett West
Apr 16, 2025
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
Apr 15, 2025
Colleen A. Dunlavy, "Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S.into a Manufacturing Powerhouse" (Polity Press, 2024)
Apr 14, 2025
Is Liberal Democracy Dying?
Apr 13, 2025
Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
Apr 12, 2025
James Davison Hunter, "Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis" (Yale UP, 2024)
Apr 09, 2025
Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Apr 08, 2025
Benjamin M. Studebaker, "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Apr 07, 2025
Jonathan Rauch, "Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy" (Yale UP, 2025)
Apr 04, 2025
Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 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
Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Mar 30, 2025
Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco" (U Nevada Press, 2025)
Mar 27, 2025
Human Rights in the Trump Era: A Conversation with Kenneth Roth
Mar 24, 2025
Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship
Mar 24, 2025
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
Mar 19, 2025
Richard Buttny, "Unfracked: The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
Mar 18, 2025
Luca Trenta, "The President's Kill List: Assassination and Us Foreign Policy Since 1945" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Mar 17, 2025
Postscript: Donald Trump is Erasing History – What YOU Can Do about it
Mar 14, 2025
Postscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship
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
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law--A Conversation with Janie Nitze
Mar 05, 2025
Timothy P. R. Weaver, "Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City" (Temple UP, 2025)
Mar 01, 2025
Religious Freedom: A Conversation on the Conservative Tradition with John D. Wilsey
Feb 26, 2025
Postscript: How to Fight Back: Charting Opposition to the Actions of the Trump Administration
Feb 24, 2025
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
Feb 24, 2025
Trump, Anti-DEI and Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms
Feb 18, 2025
Lori A. Flores, "Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to Covid-19" (UNC Press, 2025)
Feb 18, 2025
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
Feb 18, 2025
Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)
Feb 18, 2025
Samar Al-Bulushi, "War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Feb 17, 2025
Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)
Feb 17, 2025
Allison Rank et al., "Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Feb 14, 2025
American Higher Education Under the Second Trump Administration
Feb 11, 2025
Rebecca Davis Gibbons, "The Hegemon's Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 11, 2025
Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 08, 2025
Trump’s Second Term and Europe: Nationalism, NATO, and the Future of Transatlantic Relations
Feb 03, 2025
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 28, 2025
Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jan 26, 2025
Adam Jortner, "A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 25, 2025
Truth Matters: A Conversation with Robert P. George and Cornel West
Jan 22, 2025
August H. Nimtz and Kyle A. Edwards, "The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution" (Brill, 2024)
Jan 17, 2025
Congressional Deliberation: A Conversation with Kevin J. Burns and Jordan T. Cash
Jan 15, 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
Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, "Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jan 06, 2025
Dean Itsuji Saranillio, "Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood" (Duke UP, 2018)
Jan 06, 2025
Devin Fergus, “Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jan 05, 2025
Simon Miles, "Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jan 04, 2025
Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 04, 2025
Mike Madrid, "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
Dec 30, 2024
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Dec 25, 2024
Free Inquiry in the Academy and Beyond
Dec 18, 2024
Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, "Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Dec 17, 2024
Robert Danisch, "Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024
Oliver Rosales, "Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024
How to Tackle Political Violence
Dec 13, 2024
Melissa B. Jacoby, "Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal" (New Press, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024
Barbara A. Biesecker, "Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State" (Penn State Press, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024
Jeremy Brecher, "The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Dec 10, 2024
Casey B. K. Dominguez, "Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers" (UP of Kansas, 2024)
Dec 09, 2024
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)
Dec 08, 2024
Deondra Rose, "The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 07, 2024
Matthew Gardner Kelly, "Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Dec 04, 2024
Terry H. Anderson, "Why the Nineties Matter" (Oxford UP, 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
Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, "The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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
Olivia Chilcote, "Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Nov 30, 2024
Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan: Can He Really Do It?
Nov 28, 2024
Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah, "Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Marijuana in the United States" (NYU Press, 2024)
Nov 28, 2024
Yii-Jan Lin, "Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration" (Yale UP, 2024)
Nov 28, 2024
Nick Butler, "The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics" (Policy Press, 2023)
Nov 27, 2024
W. Paul Reeve, et al., "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 26, 2024
Osamah F. Khalil, "A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Nov 26, 2024
The Future of the Political Magazine: A Conversation with Ramesh Ponnuru
Nov 25, 2024
Elizabeth Garner Masarik, "The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Nov 24, 2024
The Secret Life of Central Bankers
Nov 24, 2024
Ronald Reagan Gave Us Punk Rock (with Vincent Brown)
Nov 22, 2024
Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Nov 22, 2024
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 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
Domingo Morel, "Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 19, 2024
Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)
Nov 18, 2024
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
Nov 17, 2024
Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024
D. M. Giangreco, "Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story" (Potomac Books, 2023)
Nov 15, 2024
Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election
Nov 14, 2024
The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
Nov 13, 2024
Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Nov 11, 2024
James M. Bradley, "Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 08, 2024
Todd Stern, "Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next" (MIT Press, 2024)
Nov 08, 2024
Aran Robert Shetterly, "Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul" (Amistad, 2024)
Nov 06, 2024
The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
Nov 06, 2024
Matthew Ferrence, "I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
Nov 04, 2024
Anne M. Whitesell, "Living Off the Government?: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare" (NYU Press, 2024)
Nov 03, 2024
Robert A. Schneider, "The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 02, 2024
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
Nov 01, 2024
Is Democracy Failing to Deliver?
Oct 31, 2024
Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Oct 31, 2024
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
Oct 30, 2024
Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 29, 2024
Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Oct 29, 2024
Melissa Deckman, "The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Oct 28, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
Oct 27, 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
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024
Jennifer Chudy, "Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Oct 18, 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
Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)
Oct 16, 2024
Dan La Botz, "Riding with the Revolution: The American Left in the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1925" (Brill, 2024)
Oct 15, 2024
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 15, 2024
Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024
Gretchen Sisson, "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024
Isaac Blacksin, "Conflicted: Making News from Global War" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Oct 10, 2024
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 09, 2024
Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
Oct 07, 2024
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, "Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians" (NYU Press, 2024)
Oct 07, 2024
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Oct 04, 2024
Jon Michaels and David Noll, "Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy" (Atria/One Signal, 2024)
Oct 03, 2024
Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)
Oct 01, 2024
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 01, 2024
Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, "The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Sep 30, 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
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
William Cooper, "How America Works and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the US Political System" (Ad Lib, 2024)
Sep 22, 2024
Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, "Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism" (Melville House, 2024)
Sep 21, 2024
David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Sep 20, 2024
Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
Sep 19, 2024
Celebrating Constitution Day, Part. 2: A Conversation with Julia Mahoney
Sep 18, 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
Michael D. Hattem, "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History" (Yale UP, 2024)
Sep 15, 2024
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, "When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
Sep 13, 2024
Postscript: Harris, Trump, and the Politics of Presidential Debates
Sep 13, 2024
The Political Evolution of Taylor Swift
Sep 12, 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
Are We Experiencing a Crisis of Culture?
Sep 10, 2024
Kaitlin Sidorsky, "All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women" (UP Kansas, 2019)
Sep 09, 2024
Anthony Michael Kreis, "Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development" (U California Press, 2024)
Sep 09, 2024
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, "Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine" (NYU Press, 2024)
Sep 06, 2024
Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins, "Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Sep 05, 2024
E. J. Fagan, "The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 04, 2024
Jonathan Butler, "Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York" (Fordham UP, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
Jonathan Gienapp, "Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique" (Yale UP, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Sep 03, 2024
Wendy Salkin, "Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Sep 01, 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
Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Sep 01, 2024
Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Aug 30, 2024
Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)
Aug 29, 2024
Joanna Wuest, "Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Aug 27, 2024
The Democrats Have a Party: DNC2024
Aug 26, 2024
Damaging Rationality: Exxon-Funded Legal Research and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Aug 25, 2024
James Barrera, "'We Want Better Education!': The 1960s Chicano Student Movement, School Walkouts, and the Quest for Educational Reform in South Texas" (Texas A&M UP, 2023)
Aug 25, 2024
Phil Haun, "Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War: Explaining Effectiveness in Modern Air Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 25, 2024
Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880–1945" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Aug 24, 2024
Wesley G. Phelps, "Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social Movement" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Aug 24, 2024
Bruce W. Dearstyne, "Progressive New York: Change and Reform in the Empire State, 1900-1920: A Reader" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Aug 23, 2024
Lost in Ideology: A Conversation with Jason Blakely
Aug 21, 2024
Peter Allen, “The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 20, 2024
Gerarldo Cadava, "The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump" (Ecco, 2020)
Aug 18, 2024
Heath Brown, "Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency" (UP of Kansas, 2024)
Aug 16, 2024
Policing and White Power with Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham (JP, EF)
Aug 15, 2024
James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan
Aug 14, 2024
Miguel Montalva Barba, "White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space" (Policy Press, 2024)
Aug 14, 2024
Marc Ambinder, “The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983” (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
Aug 13, 2024
Peter Charles Hoffer, "The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History" (NYU Press, 2024)
Aug 12, 2024
Daniel Kahneman’s Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research
Aug 09, 2024
Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”
Aug 09, 2024
Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”
Aug 08, 2024
Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”
Aug 07, 2024
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 07, 2024
Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, "What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service" (Dutton, 2024)
Aug 07, 2024
Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
Aug 06, 2024
Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”
Aug 06, 2024
Katherine Hempstead, "Uncovered: The Story of Insurance in America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 05, 2024
Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
Aug 05, 2024
Julia Sonnevend, "Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Aug 01, 2024
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jul 29, 2024
Postscript: Changing Dynamics in the Presidential Race, 2024
Jul 25, 2024
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
Jul 24, 2024
Anne Applebaum, "Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
Jul 23, 2024
David E. Kaiser, “The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy” (Harvard UP, 2008)
Jul 22, 2024