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Politics & Polemics
Interviews with partisans and polemicists about their new books.
May 8, 2026
Trigger Points
Today’s political debates are fiercely polarized. But looking beyond the headlines, The Trigger Points: Inequality and Political Polarization in Conte…
May 8, 2026
Are We Entering An Arms Race in Outer Space?
This week on International Horizons, RBI interim director Eli Karetny interviewed Mallory Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Strategic…
May 7, 2026
Fighting for a Foothold
Prince George’s County, Maryland, is a suburban jurisdiction in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and is home to the highest concentration of Bl…
May 6, 2026
The Coming Storm
From a renowned Yale historian comes a chilling look at the looming threat of the next Great Power war and the urgent interventions necessary to avoid…
May 5, 2026
What Does the American Presidency Mean?
Coming in the thick of the second Trump term, What Does the American Presidency Mean? The Need for Interpretation in Presidency Studies is a timely an…
May 5, 2026
Analogue Africa
Jeremy Harding has long been one of the premier essayists and journalists of our day. Elegant, committed and free of cant, Harding's writing has often…
May 4, 2026
The New Racial Regime
The New Racial Regime begins by interrogating the backlash against critical race theory and explains how the so-called war on woke can be used against…
May 4, 2026
Manufacturing Religion:
First published in 1997, Manufacturing Religion was a controversial book because it critiqued a widely adopted style of scholarship that presumes that…
May 3, 2026
Unions of Our Own
My guest today, Daniel Gross, comes to NBN to discuss his new book Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World (Haymarket…
April 30, 2026
Epochal Crisis
Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism (Cambridge UP, 2025) is the most recent book from Professor William Robinson, Distinguished Profes…
April 29, 2026
Who Is Democracy Actually For? People, Power, and the Fight Against Democratic Decline
This week on Democracy Dialogues, host Esam Boraey speaks with Shandana Khan Mohmand and Marjoke Oosterom, democracy experts at the Institute of Devel…
April 28, 2026
Rugged Individualism
In this special student edition of High Theory, Andrew Bennett, Jo Hoffman, Kai North, and Ally Sullivan tell us about Rugged Individualism, a concept…
April 28, 2026
The Insatiable Machine
How did an economic system that was the result of largely uncoordinated and unplanned individual decisions come to dominate our modern world? This is …
April 28, 2026
The Future of Hiding
How can lives and things that are rendered invisible be crucial to identity, politics, and the future? Drawing on experimental ethnographic research i…
April 27, 2026
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State
Stephen Sims’ New Atlantis essay examines how emerging technologies are reshaping the structure and authority of the modern nation-state. He argues th…
April 27, 2026
Caste and Race
This episode features S. Karthikeyan and S. Subbulakshmi, the Convenor and Secretary of the Ambedkar King Study Circle, an anti-caste organization bas…
April 27, 2026
Assessing Global Democratic Health Amidst a Growing Shadow of Autocracy
This week on Democracy Dialogues, host Maya Tudor speaks with two democracy experts at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Freedom House to…
April 26, 2026
The Burning Ground
Noo Saro-Wiwa is an author and journalist. Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and raised in England, she attended King's College London and Columbia Univ…
April 24, 2026
Electric Life
Electric Life: Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy (MIT Press, 2026) by Dr. Nikki Luke traces the intertwined history of Atlanta’s r…
April 22, 2026
The Crisis of American Political Economy
In this sixth episode of Season 5, I interview Mr. Chris Griswold. An alum of Wheaton College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he was formerly a se…