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Interviews with scholars of American politics about their new books.
November 26, 2024
This Abominable Slavery
On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, M…
November 26, 2024
A World of Enemies
A sobering account of how the United States trapped itself in endless wars—abroad and at home—and what it might do to break free. Over the past half-…
November 25, 2024
The Future of the Political Magazine
This week on Madison’s Notes, we welcome Ramesh Ponnuru, renowned journalist and Editor of National Review. In this episode, we dive into his journey,…
November 24, 2024
The Secret Life of Central Bankers
This is the final episode of Cited’s most recent season, Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise, a season that tells stories of the political and scholarly…
November 24, 2024
The Sentimental State
With The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State (University of Georgia Press, 2024), Dr. Elizabeth Garner Masarik sh…
November 22, 2024
Speculative Whiteness
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a hig…
November 22, 2024
Ronald Reagan Gave Us Punk Rock (with Vincent Brown)
Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing th…
November 21, 2024
Civic Solitude
An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of coll…
November 21, 2024
An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)
Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing th…
November 21, 2024
Adventures in Democracy
Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Dr. Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: f…
November 19, 2024
Developing Scholars
Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institut…
November 18, 2024
Higher Education for All
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college edu…
November 17, 2024
Our Jackie
When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is…
November 16, 2024
Changed Men
Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual…
November 14, 2024
Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election
Many pundits are rushing to judgement – claiming to identify the “one” reason that Donald Trump won or Kamala Harris lost the 2024 Presidential Electi…
November 13, 2024
The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
This is episode three Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly batt…
November 11, 2024
Dual Justice
The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and di…
November 8, 2024
Martin Van Buren
Despite serving as the 8th president of the United States, Martin Van Buren gets little consideration for his impact on American history. In his new b…
November 8, 2024
Landing the Paris Climate Agreement
From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 201…
November 6, 2024
Morningside
On November 3, 1979, as activist Nelson Johnson assembled people for a march adjacent to Morningside Homes in Greensboro, North Carolina, gunshots ran…