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Politics & Polemics
Interviews with partisans and polemicists about their new books.
October 12, 2026
The Democracy Exchange
What can democracies in different parts of the Global South learn from one another - and what can democracies in the Global North learn from them? The…
October 12, 2026
Civil Societies, Uncivil States
Why would a government bother to go after groups that carry no weapons and hold no power? Suparna Chaudhry argues that the answer says a lot about whe…
October 11, 2026
Crime and No Punishment
The United States is an exceptionally violent country, increasingly unable or unwilling to stem violence in its many forms. A growing corporate crime …
October 11, 2026
Troubled Times
Kevin Galvin's Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing Of 1976 (Brandeis UP, 2026), interweaves the stories of a revolutionary and a bombing vic…
October 10, 2026
Green Thinking
Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics (Routledge, 2026) is about unlearning, discarding damaging, outdated idea…
October 10, 2026
God, Guns, and Sedition
In this episode, I spoke with Jacob Ware, co-author, with Bruce Hoffman, of God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America, published in 2024 …
October 7, 2026
To Exist as a Problem
In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, "How does it feel to be a problem?" In this profound respon…
October 6, 2026
Conspiracy
Pundits, scholars, and the general public alike have argued that conspiratorial thinking is the greatest threat to liberal democracy. In Conspiracy: T…
October 4, 2026
Obsolete
Today I’m speaking with Garrison Lovely, technology journalist and author of the new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace…
October 4, 2026
The Hypocrisy Trap
In our increasingly distrusting and polarized world, accusations of hypocrisy are everywhere. But our attempts to stamp out hypocrisy may backfire, cr…
October 3, 2026
Beyond Incremental Reform
As the United Nations faces mounting geopolitical tensions, financial pressures, and new global challenges, what would meaningful reform actually look…
October 2, 2026
Rhetorical Powers
Recent years have seen a striking resurgence of anti-imperial and anticolonial rhetoric on the international stage, from Global South to Global North …
September 29, 2026
Do We Really Need To Choose Between Jobs and the Environment?
Host Licia Cianetti talks to Lorenzo Feltrin about his recent book Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within (Verso, 2026). They d…
September 29, 2026
The Return of the Great Powers
From the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries between Great Powers. In the West, this meant the …
September 29, 2026
Smuggling Law
The Kurdish-populated Wan/Van Province is a major smuggling hub between Turkey and Iran. Kurdish smugglers cross this 180-mile-long land border, trans…
September 29, 2026
Compromised Coalitions
When an election turns violent and neither side will concede, why is the usual answer to put both sides in the same government? Alex Noyes has spent n…
September 28, 2026
Vulgar Marxism
Offers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education. For the …
September 28, 2026
The Player and the Played
A provocative examination of the ways our economy has been rigged by financialization, and the importance of games to our dangerous political moment. …
September 26, 2026
Democracy on the Edge
In Democracy on the Edge, leading political scientists John Kenneth White and Matthew R. Kerbel unravel the elections of 2020, 2022, and 2024 to show …
September 25, 2026
Driven to Their Knees
Humiliation pervades our politics, from images of stripped Palestinian men in Gaza to mocking chants at MAGA rallies. It suffuses pictures and videos,…