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American Politics
Interviews with scholars of American politics about their new books.
April 16, 2026
Rape Fantasies
Political theorist Alisa Kessel (University of Puget Sound) has an important and impressive new book, Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence…
April 15, 2026
Supreme Pressure
Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) examines t…
April 15, 2026
The Politics of Social Change
Few time periods have been as defined by waves of monumental social change as the United States during the 1960s. Even today, almost sixty years later…
April 14, 2026
Revolutions
Revolutions: A New History (Verso Books, 2025) is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms…
April 14, 2026
Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation
On March 2, 1945, five Mexican American families and their Jewish American lawyer filed a class-action lawsuit against four school districts in Orange…
April 14, 2026
The Problem of Personhood
Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protecti…
April 12, 2026
The Future of Revolution
How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed? Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading rev…
April 12, 2026
U.S. Militarism and the Terrain of Memory
In U.S. Militarism and the Terrain of Memory: Negotiating Dead Space (Taylor & Francis, 2024), John Bechtold examines how the US military understands …
April 7, 2026
The Trouble with Freedom
As Melissa Butcher puts it in her book The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future (Manchester UP, 2026) when asked to rank the importan…
March 30, 2026
Foucault and Liberal Political Economy
This highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucaul…
March 29, 2026
The Church Committee Report
Fifty years ago, a government investigation led by US senator Frank Church uncovered some of the darkest state secrets of the twentieth century. The C…
March 29, 2026
Red Pill Politics
Around the globe, far-right political parties and movements are on the march, winning popular support, legislative seats, and presidencies--and stokin…
March 28, 2026
Willing Warriors
How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education. On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to add…
March 28, 2026
Enemies to Their Country
Nicholas W. Gentile complicates our understanding of the American Revolution through a microhistory of one Massachusetts town in his new book, Enemies…
March 27, 2026
The Politics of Failed Policies
The Politics of Failed Policies (Oxford UP, 2025) examines how the interplay of politics and data affects when failed policies get recognized. It show…
March 26, 2026
Stuck
Why fifty years of changemaking and reform haven't fixed Congress—and what that reveals about American democracy. Congress, the central democratic ins…
March 26, 2026
The Kissinger Tapes
A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that …
March 25, 2026
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual”
The philosopher G.W.F. Hegel “viewed history as consisting of stages punctuated by times of upheaval,” the author John B. Judis wrote in a recent essa…
March 23, 2026
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods An engaging biography of one of the most influenti…
March 21, 2026
Twenty-Two Cents an Hour
In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages (Cornell UP, 2022), Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh reality of p…