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Politics & Polemics
Interviews with partisans and polemicists about their new books.
October 9, 2024
The Fragility of China
In this episode of Madison's Notes, we sit down with Dennis Unkovic to discuss his latest book, The Fragility of China (Encounter Books, 2024). Unkovi…
October 9, 2024
Charging Forward
A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy. California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health condition…
October 7, 2024
The Indispensable Right
“It’s a free country.” Many of us recall saying that as children as we learned that we were American citizens who were endowed with certain rights—suc…
October 7, 2024
Corporatocracy
What threatens American democracy and the rule of law? In her new book, Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicia…
October 6, 2024
Brexit, Tweeted
Dissecting 45 million tweets from the period that followed the Brexit referendum, Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation (Bristol…
October 6, 2024
Moral Codes
Why the world needs less AI and better programming languages. Decades ago, we believed that robots and computers would take over all the boring jobs a…
October 5, 2024
Descent of the Dialectic
In Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism (Routledge, 2024), Michael J. Thompson reconstructs the concept and practice of…
October 3, 2024
Vigilante Nation
Law professors Jon Michaels and David Noll use their expertise to expose how state-supported forms of vigilantism are being deployed by MAGA Republica…
October 3, 2024
Screening Big Data
Screening Big Data: Films that Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy (Routledge, 2024) examines the influence of key films on public understanding of big dat…
October 2, 2024
A Short History of Relations Between Peoples
For most of recorded history, neighboring countries, tribes, and peoples everywhere in the world regarded each other with apprehension—when not outrig…
October 1, 2024
American Heretics
A question has long hung over the the United States regarding the proper role of religion in public life. Those who long for a Christian America claim…
September 29, 2024
Bicycle
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle prom…
September 28, 2024
Michael S. Roth on the Rise of Student Protests, the Fall of Some College Presidents, and Why Liberal Education Matters
The campus protests over conflict in Israel and Gaza have engulfed universities, and led to the resignation of several university presidents. In this …
September 28, 2024
Blue Collar Empire
How the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad. Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of U.S. Labor’s Glob…
September 27, 2024
Vampire State
State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics. A socialist market economy. There have been numerous descriptions of the Chinese economy. Ho…
September 26, 2024
The Academic Trumpists
Remember the bleach drinking episode? Remember ‘alternative facts’? Remember ‘I have the best words’? These elements of the Trump presidency spoke to …
September 25, 2024
The Black Tax
In The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U Chicago Press, 2024), Andrew W. Kahrl uncovers the history of ineq…
September 23, 2024
AI Hype
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Emily Bender, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Masters of Science in Computational Linguistics pr…
September 23, 2024
The Specter of Dictatorship
At the end of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked whether we have a republic or a monarchy. He replied “A Repub…
September 22, 2024
The Spectre of State Capitalism
After close to three decades of the hegemony of free market ideas, the state has made a big comeback as an economic actor since the 2008 financial cri…