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Politics & Polemics
Interviews with partisans and polemicists about their new books.
June 19, 2026
Mandela's Leadership Legacy
In Mandela’s Leadership Legacy: Emotional and Existential Wisdom (Routledge, 2026) Steven Segal explores Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary ability to lea…
June 19, 2026
Black Freedom
Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026) is the first fully illustrated history of Juneteenth…
June 14, 2026
A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda
Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight …
June 13, 2026
The White Pedestal
Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how whit…
June 12, 2026
AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead
Like many people, I've been following the developments of AI, testing out new models and following the deluge of news stories about the fight for supr…
June 10, 2026
Athenian Democracy
Athenian Democracy provides innovative readings of ancient theorists to reveal both the complexity of democracy's achievements and its limits. In Ath…
June 8, 2026
The Clintons, Tech, and Memory
We were joined by Professor Margaret O’Mara of the University of Washington, who had a front row seat to the Clinton campaign and went on to become an…
June 8, 2026
The Diasporic Hindu Right with Savera
This episode features a conversation with Prachi and Ram, organizers with Savera, a multiracial, interfaith, anti-caste coalition of Indian Americans …
June 6, 2026
Somebody Should Do Something
A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference. Chan…
June 1, 2026
A Praxis of Persistence
A Praxis of Persistence: Central American Feminist Testimony and Sustainable Activism (SUNY Press, 2026) by Dr. Kenna Neitch establishes persistence a…
May 30, 2026
The Filthiest Village in Europe
The Filthiest Village in Europe: Grassroots Ecology and the Collapse of East Germany (Cornell University Press, 2026) traces how a community shrouded …
May 30, 2026
Ladder or Lottery
In Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead (University of California Press, 2026), Gary Hoover asks the reader a simple…
May 28, 2026
Stories We Wear
Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, is known for his outfits. Since rising to become India’s head of government in 2014, photographers and journali…
May 28, 2026
What They Stole
In 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical c…
May 27, 2026
Intellectual Self-Destruction
In my recent conversation with Sittig, we explored her co-authored book Intellectual Self-Destruction: How the West Gambles Away Its Future (Ibidem Pr…
May 26, 2026
Audible Loss
It is a compulsion of the human race to find a way to memorialize those we have lost and why we have lost them, from a gravestone of a loved one to wa…
May 26, 2026
Billionaire Backlash
This week on Democracy Dialogues, host Maya Tudor speaks with her colleague and fellow political scientist Pepper Culpepper about his new book Billion…
May 23, 2026
Blue Power
In America today, police enjoy unmatched power. On the streets, officers employ violence at their own discretion. Behind closed doors, they are ev…
May 21, 2026
Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism
Why have moral philosophers largely ignored colonialism? In Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression (Bloomsbury Academic,…
May 19, 2026
The Overseer Class
“The poor, of whatever color, do not trust the law and certainly have no reason to, and God knows we didn't. ‘If you must call a cop,’ we said in thos…