Politics & Society

Politics & Society

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Curtis Dozier, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" (Yale UP, 2026)

June 13, 2026

The White Pedestal

Curtis Dozier

Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how whit…

Jeffrey Hoelle, "Cultivated: Plants, Hair, and the Aesthetic of Control" (Yale UP, 2026)

June 13, 2026

Cultivated

Jeffrey Hoelle
Hosted by Yadong Li

An exploration of the concept of cultivation, as conducted on both the land and the body, which expands our understanding of it as practice, aesthetic…

Patrick Brodie, "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland" (Duke UP, 2026)

June 13, 2026

Wild Tides

Patrick Brodie
Hosted by Sadie Couture

In Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland (Duke University Press, 2026), Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the Ir…

Philippe Huneman, "When Metaphysics Meets Biology:  Kantian Approaches to the Concept of An Organism" (Routledge, 2026)

June 13, 2026

When Metaphysics Meets Biology

Philippe Huneman
Hosted by Carrie Figdor

Central to modern biology and the study of life is the concept of the organism—roughly, a body with interconnected parts that make specific contributi…

How Does the Second-Hand Book Business Really Work? with WeBuyBooks Co-Founder Mike Lane

June 12, 2026

How Does the Second-Hand Book Business Really Work?

Mike Lane
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Today I’m speaking with Mike Lane, Managing Director and co-founder of WeBuyBooks about the economics of the second-hand book business. WeBuyBooks is …

Jeffrey R. Di Leo, "Theory as World Literature" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

June 12, 2026

Theory as World Literature

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Hosted by Arnab Dutta Roy

What does it mean for theory to be considered as a species of not just literature but world literature? Theory as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2025)…

Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)

June 12, 2026

Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe

Jake Dyble
Hosted by Lewis Wade

Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still und…

Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes, "War at Arm's Length: How America Can Build Effective Partners Through Military Assistance" (Yale UP, 2026)

June 12, 2026

War at Arm's Length

Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes

An in-depth examination of how the United States can build more effective partner militaries. Military assistance has a bad reputation. Large-scale a…

AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota

June 12, 2026

AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead

Andrew Sorota
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

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…

Kristen Abbott Bennett, "Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

June 12, 2026

Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World

Kristen Abbott Bennett
Hosted by John Yargo

Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World (Cambridge University Press, 2025) engages with one of Shakespeare's greatest thought-experiments: How doe…

Robert Templer, "The Shah's Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followed (Hurst, 2026)

June 11, 2026

The Shah's Party

Robert Templer
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon

In 1971, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi threw a party to celebrate the 2,500-year anniversary of the Persian Empire. It was planned to be a massive party,…

Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

June 11, 2026

Can I Say That

Poornima Luthra

Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is your safe space to learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion, and how y…

Helping Companies Foster Agility

June 11, 2026

Helping Companies Foster Agility

Charles Snow

Born and raised in San Diego, Charles Snow held a variety of jobs early in life, including: paperboy, grocery store cashier, accounting clerk, chauffe…

“America’s Founding Son”: Author & Musician Bob Crawford on the Life of John Quincy Adams

June 11, 2026

“America’s Founding Son”

Moderated by Brian McCarthy
Hosted by Max Rudin

John Quincy Adams was the great visionary of America’s post-founding era, a writer and orator of consummate skill who reframed the origins and princip…

Don Thomas Deere, "The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space" (Duke UP, 2026)

June 11, 2026

The Invention of Order

Don Thomas Deere

In The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space (Duke University Press, 2026), Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial orga…

Karine Premont and Christopher J. Devine eds., "Second in Command: Reevaluating the Role of Vice Presidents and Running Mates in Modern American Politics" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

June 11, 2026

Second in Command

Karine Prémont and Christopher J. Devine
Hosted by Lilly Goren

Karine Premont and Christopher Devine have a new edited volume focusing on the American Vice Presidency and analyzing not just the office and the offi…

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai, "Surrender to God Across Languages: Multilingual Intellectual History of Premodern India" (Oxford UP, 2026)

June 11, 2026

Surrender to God Across Languages

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

Surrender to God Across Languages: Multilingual Intellectual History of Premodern India (Oxford UP, 2026) explores the role of languages in the intell…

Natalia Rogach Alexander, "Growing People: The Enduring Legacy of John Dewey" (Columbia UP, 2025)

June 10, 2026

Growing People

Natalia Rogach Alexander

John Dewey is among history’s most celebrated thinkers on democracy and education, yet he has often been underappreciated and misunderstood as a …

Mardi Reardon-Smith, "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" (Stanford UP, 2025)

June 10, 2026

Making Do

Mardi Reardon-Smith
Hosted by Amisah Bakuri

Modern environmentalism often frames conservation as moral, humans damage nature, and conservation protects it. But Mardi Reardon-Smith’s Making Do: C…

Islam in English

June 10, 2026

Islam in English

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Oludamini Oguannaike, Associate Professor of African Religious Th…