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American Politics
Interviews with scholars of American politics about their new books.
May 31, 2026
Faith, Family, and Flag
Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America (University of Chicago Press, 2025) examines the history of Branson, Missouri…
May 30, 2026
Kevin Warsh: "What did you have to say in order to get this job?"
More than any single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global financial markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest rat…
May 30, 2026
Jefferson on Race
From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’…
May 28, 2026
The Instigators
Black women have always been the most relentless instigators for change—building a democracy for all. In The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Es…
May 26, 2026
Why Elected Leaders Subvert Democracy
When we think about threats to democracy, we often imagine dramatic breakdowns—military coups, constitutional crises, or sudden collapses. But today, …
May 26, 2026
Audible Loss
It is a compulsion of the human race to find a way to memorialize those we have lost and why we have lost them, from a gravestone of a loved one to wa…
May 25, 2026
Stories of Struggle
In Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (U South Carolina Press, 2020), longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson detail…
May 25, 2026
Catastrophic Diplomacy
Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century (UNC Press, 2023) offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assi…
May 25, 2026
Archie Bunker for President
Political historian Oscar Winberg has a fascinating new book titled Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics. Thi…
May 23, 2026
Blue Power
In America today, police enjoy unmatched power. On the streets, officers employ violence at their own discretion. Behind closed doors, they are ev…
May 23, 2026
Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence
Mary Freeman, associate professor of history at the University of Maine, joins Michael Stauch to discuss her new book Abolitionists and the Politics o…
May 23, 2026
Co-Operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective
Co-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have long captured the imagination of…
May 21, 2026
The State and the Soldier
One of the biggest worries of the US Constitution's Framers was the danger of a standing army to a democracy, so they designed a system to ensure civi…
May 20, 2026
Debating the Constitution
Here in Episode 8 of Season 5, I interview Professor Sherif Girgis. A graduate of Princeton University, the University of Oxford, and Yale Law School,…
May 18, 2026
Exit from International Organizations
Why do states exit international organizations (IOs)? How often does exit from IOs – including voluntary withdrawal and forced suspension – occur? Wha…
May 18, 2026
Fear and Fury
Historian Heather Ann Thompson’s Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage (Pantheon, 2026) recou…
May 17, 2026
Mississippi Law
Justin Randolph, assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University, joins Michael Stauch to discuss Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in Ameri…
May 15, 2026
Mutiny in the Mountains
Mutiny in the Mountains: West Virginia Public Workers, 1969-2019 (PM Press, 2026) uses labor history to show the way forward for millions of workers s…
May 14, 2026
Conspirator in Chief
Political Scientist Steve Knott has a new book that focuses on conspiracy theories within the American presidency and often promulgated by the preside…
May 13, 2026
Whispers in the Pews
Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America (NYU Press, 2026) reveals how mundane social interactions in an evangelical church s…