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About Susan Liebell
Susan Liebell is a political theorist working at the intersection of public law. Currently, she is researching and publishing on originalism, Stand Your Ground, reproductive rights, and the Second Amendment. Recently, her work has appeared in the Monkey Cage, The Journal of Politics, and Polity. Her teaching during COVID was featured in the Washington Post. She provides political commentary for many outlets including KYW in Philly, PHL 17's In Focus, and Wisconsin Public Radio's Central Time.Susan Liebell is a Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.
NBN Episodes hosted by Susan:
November 14, 2024
Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election
Many pundits are rushing to judgement – claiming to identify the “one” reason that Donald Trump won or Kamala Harris lost the 2024 Presidential Electi…
November 11, 2024
Dual Justice
The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and di…
October 31, 2024
The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021
There has been a lot of commentary from scholars and journalists as to the meaning of Donald Trump’s three appointments to the United States Supreme …
October 28, 2024
The Politics of Gen Z
As the 2024 American presidential election approaches, it is common to hear scholars and journalists discuss the role of particular groups such as Lat…
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 3, 2024
Vigilante Nation
Law professors Jon Michaels and David Noll use their expertise to expose how state-supported forms of vigilantism are being deployed by MAGA Republica…
September 30, 2024
The Power of the Badge
The image of the sheriff is deeply embedded in American culture – from pacifist Jimmy Stewart in Destry Rides Again and gun averse Roy Scheider in Jaw…
September 23, 2024
The Specter of Dictatorship
At the end of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked whether we have a republic or a monarchy. He replied “A Repub…
September 16, 2024
A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other
Many scholars and members of the press have argued that John Roberts’ Supreme Court is exceptional. While some emphasize the approach to interpreting …
September 9, 2024
Rot and Revival
One of the great divides in American judicial scholarship is between legal scholars who take the justices at their word and assume that those words de…
August 27, 2024
Born This Way
Scholars often narrate the legal cases confirming LGBTQ+ rights as a huge success story. While it took 100 years to confirm the rights of Black Americ…
August 12, 2024
The Supreme Court Footnote
When the draft majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health was leaked, the media, public officials, and scholars focused on the overturning o…
July 1, 2024
Does the June POTUS Debate Matter?
On Thursday, June 27th, President Joe Biden and Trump debated for 90 minutes without a live audience or the usually provided by the Commission on Pres…
June 10, 2024
Reform and Retrenchment
Until 1900, most political parties in the United States chose their leaders – either in back rooms with a few party elites making decisions or in conv…
May 6, 2024
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia (Temple UP, 2022) provides an in-depth historical anal…
April 8, 2024
Empire of Brutality
Historians of early America, slavery, early African American history, the history of science, and environmental history have interrogated the complex …
March 25, 2024
Understanding Comparative Politics
Research in political science shows that collections and textbooks often mention race, gender, ethnicity, and religion – but they don’t consistently u…
February 12, 2024
Judging Inequality
Soaring levels of political, legal, economic, and social inequality have been documented by social scientists – but the public conversation and schola…
January 29, 2024
Failing Moms
The role of mother is often celebrated in the United States as the most important job in the world but Dr. Caitlin Killian argues that American mother…
January 15, 2024
Race, Rights, and Rifles
The United States has more guns than people and more gun violence than any Western democracy. Scholars in diverse fields interrogate why 21st century…
December 18, 2023
In Her Own Name
We often narrate the history of women’s rights in the United States by focusing on the fight for suffrage. Yet starting as early as 1835, states expan…
December 4, 2023
Gun Country
The United States has more guns than people – a condition that is “unprecedented in world history.” Scholars often focus on gun culture, the Second Am…
November 6, 2023
Wrong
Over the past 40 years, lawmakers in America's two major political parties have taken increasingly extreme positions on ideological issues. Voters fro…
October 30, 2023
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? How do we understand anti-Asian racism in relation to structural anti-Blackness? Are Asian Am…