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About Lilly Goren
Lilly J. Goren is professor of political science at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI.
NBN Episodes hosted by Lilly:
March 12, 2026
The Politics of Perception
Katelyn Stauffer, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia, has an excellent new book focusing on how voters and citizens…
February 19, 2026
False Front
Political Scientist Kenneth Lowande (University of Michigan) has a new book, False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age,…
February 12, 2026
Furious Minds
Political Theorist Laura Field has written an insightful and detailed exploration of the people and the ideas that have shaped the second Trump Admini…
January 15, 2026
Mending the Nation
Political Scientist Michael Illuzzi has a fascinating new book on peoplehood in the United States, focusing on different political actors at different…
January 8, 2026
Remembering Jefferson
Mary E. Stuckey, the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, has a brilliant new book that dive…
December 30, 2025
Justice by Means of Democracy
Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and the Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, ha…
December 11, 2025
The Adaptability Paradox
The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience (U Chicago Press, 2025) is a complex and important analysis of the Americ…
November 27, 2025
Counting Like a State
Marquette University Political Scientist Phil Rocco has a new book focusing on the 2020 U.S. Census and how the states, localities, and federal govern…
November 5, 2025
Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint
Political Scientists Jack Greenberg (Yale University) and John Dearborn (Vanderbilt University) have a new book that focuses on the idea of presidenti…
October 23, 2025
The Color of Civics
Matthew D. Nelsen, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, has a new book out that focuses on the content of civic edu…
October 19, 2025
Ugly Freedoms
Freedom is often considered the cornerstone of the American political project. The 1776 revolutionaries declared it an inalienable right that could ne…
September 20, 2025
Subverting the Republic
Nicholas Jacobs (Colby College) and Sidney Milkis (University of Virginia) have a new book, Subverting the Republic: Donald J. Trump and the Perils of…
August 28, 2025
Fully Human
Lindsey N. Kingston’s new book, Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights (Oxford UP, 2019) interrogates the idea of citizenship itself, what i…
July 30, 2025
War for Peace
Murad Idris, a political theorist in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, explores the concept of peace, the term …
July 19, 2025
Just Health
In the United States, systemic racism is embedded in policies and practices, thereby structuring American society to perpetuate inequality and all of …
July 17, 2025
See Jane Run
Notre Dame University Political Scientists Dave Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht have a new book that focuses on the impression that female candidates…
July 10, 2025
Earthborn Democracy
Political theorists Ali Aslam (Mount Holyoke College), David McIvor (Colorado State University), and Joel Alden Schlosser (Bryn Mawr College) have wri…
July 3, 2025
Disrupting Political Science
Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline SUNY Press, 2025 Angela K. Lewis-Maddox, editor Political Scientist Angela K. …
May 29, 2025
Everyone's Business
Amit Ron and Abraham Singer, both political theorists, examine the concept of the responsibilities that private companies and corporations have in a d…
May 21, 2025
Feminism and the Cinema of Experience
Political theorist Lori Marso has been intrigued by filmmaker Chantal Akerman for many years and has integrated Akerman’s work into her courses at Uni…
May 20, 2025
Constitutional Conventions
Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics (Routledge, 2025) is an excellent edited volume exploring the various ways in which gover…
April 25, 2025
Figures of Freedom
Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis takes on the idea and terminology of freedom, examining our understanding of this c…
April 20, 2025
Hegel and Italian Political Thought
Political Theorist Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge) has a fascinating new book, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Pra…
April 2, 2025
Collective Action to Support Students at American Colleges and Universities
A coalition of educators and allies has come together to push back against a variety of different kinds of attacks on higher education and students at…