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Politics & Polemics
Interviews with partisans and polemicists about their new books.
October 26, 2024
The Ideas That Rule Us
The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule Our Lives and How to Change it (Prepolitica, 2024), political theory researcher, author, and ent…
October 25, 2024
Contested Money
Discussing money is always accompanied by controversy as well as enchantment. Debating what money is and how it performs its main functions in the con…
October 24, 2024
The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide
In early June 2020, Christina Gessler and Zerlina Maxwell met remotely to discuss Maxwell’s soon-to-be-released book. This episode is an encore presen…
October 23, 2024
Religion and Republic
In our latest podcast episode, we sat down with historian Miles Smith, who teaches at Hillsdale College, to discuss his new book, Religion and Republi…
October 22, 2024
Tyranny of the Minority
America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. …
October 22, 2024
Smooth City
In cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever-increasing push toward efficiency, sanitization, surveillance and the …
October 22, 2024
Lifehouse
In Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire (Verso, 2024), Adam Greenfield presents a compelling vision for collective resilience in an …
October 17, 2024
You Can't Teach That!
Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented effo…
October 17, 2024
Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration
Today’s book is: Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration (Russell Sage Foundation, 2024), by Dr. Ernesto Castañeda and Daniel…
October 17, 2024
Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era
Democracy is struggling in an age of populism and post-truth. In a world swirling with competing political groups stating conflicting facts, citizens …
October 16, 2024
The Social Contract in the Ruins
In the latest episode of Madison’s Notes, we sit down with Dr. Paul DeHart, professor of Political Science at Texas State University and author of The…
October 15, 2024
The Tech Coup
Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power …
October 12, 2024
The Politics of Collecting
In The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property (Duke University Press, 2024), Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and c…
October 12, 2024
Marxism and Politics
Capitalism is a revolutionary situation of the last stage of pre-history, and the potential and possibility for freedom, or else it is just what Hegel…
October 12, 2024
Killed by a Traffic Engineer
In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continue…
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
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 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 6, 2024
Brexit, Tweeted
Dissecting 45 million tweets from the period that followed the Brexit referendum, Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation (Bristol…