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Politics & Polemics
Interviews with partisans and polemicists about their new books.
August 30, 2026
Why Nations Still Fight
Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short case studies, Richard Ned Lebow offe…
August 28, 2026
The Political Outsider
Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. …
August 26, 2026
Forest of the Sea
In a matter of decades, a spectacular cold-water paradise thirty million years in the making is succumbing to warming oceans. Kelp forests are lar…
August 24, 2026
The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy
The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West (Verso Books, 2026) is the definitive history o…
August 24, 2026
The Military Entertainment Complex
The Military Entertainment Complex: Chimurenga Afrosonic Making of Zimbabwe (MIT Press, 2026) by Dr. Mhoze Chikowero is the story of the making of pos…
August 24, 2026
Replaying Communism
Repercussions of communism are still felt throughout Central and Eastern Europe. In fact, specters of communism remain vivid enough to inspire a w…
August 18, 2026
Asymmetric Warfare
The forces that fight asymmetric wars are so distinct that one side avoids direct military confrontation in favor of political, social, or otherwise u…
August 14, 2026
American Pogroms
Amidst heightened rhetoric and increasing polarization in the United States, American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America (Oxford Universit…
August 11, 2026
America's Wrong Turn
How can a nation with unmatched wealth and medical innovation also have the highest health care costs and the poorest health outcomes among its peers?…
August 10, 2026
Dalit Studies
This episode featured a conversation with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana, and Sanal Mohan, three scholars in the burgeoning field of Dalit Studies…
August 8, 2026
Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora
Hindu nationalism is transforming India as an increasingly dominant ideology and political force. But it is also a global phenomenon, with sections of…
August 6, 2026
Inside Parties
Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness (Cambridge UP, 2025) by Georgia Kernell examines how party rules determine how par…
August 5, 2026
Reproductive Justice, Queerly
Queer theory and reproductive justice need each other—now more than ever. As liberals and leftists increasingly frame reproductive justice in terms of…
August 5, 2026
Boss Lincoln
We know Abraham Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by civil war. But he had another, less visible side, equally central to…
August 5, 2026
Chasing Freedom
"In my home country, they call me a 'bornfree'." Simukai Chigudu was born in Zimbabwe, two years after the end of its bitter war of liberation - a war…
August 2, 2026
Pandemic Politics in Central Asia
Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion (Routledge, 2026) examines how the authoritarian regimes of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and U…
August 2, 2026
Contested Realities and Identity Destigmatization
Much scholarship has sought to decode the polarization of American culture. Eric O Silva's analysis of the public discourse on contested realities (im…
July 31, 2026
China’s Landless Peasants and the Role of State-led Rural Urbanization
As part and parcel of China’s compressed modernization, processes of state-led rural urbanization through land expropriation and rural-to-urban reloca…
July 31, 2026
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
How the nuclear guardrails were dismantled. What arms control actually did (risk management, predictability, geography), how it unravelled from the 20…
July 29, 2026
Two Revolutionary Jews
When Jews plunged into the world of politics en masse at the beginning of the 20th century, a variety of new options were available to them. Two of th…