politics

#1083 Matt Grossmann: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics

Apr 11, 2025

Dr. Matt Grossmann is Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) and Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center in Washington, DC, host of The Science of Politics Podcast and a regular contributor to FiveThirtyEight’s online political analysis. He is the author (with David A. Hopkins) of Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics. More»
#1081 Richard Wolff (@RichardDWolff): Trump's Tariffs, Elon Musk, and the BRICS

Apr 7, 2025

Dr. Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He is also the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. Over the last 25 years, in collaboration with his colleague, Stephen Resnick, he has developed a new approach to political economy. While it retains and systematically elaborates the Marxist notion of class as surplus labor, it rejects the economic determinism typical of most schools of economics and usually associated with Marxism as well. More»
#1079 Christopher Federico: Political Preferences, Belief Systems, Collective Narcissism, & More

Apr 3, 2025

Dr. Christopher Federico is Professor of Political Science and Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He also serves as President of the International Society of Political Psychology. His research focuses in particular on the nature of ideology and belief systems, the psychological foundations of political preferences, and intergroup attitudes. He is co-author (with Christopher Johnston and Howard Lavine) of Open Versus Closed: Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution, and a co-editor of the volumes At the Forefront of Political Psychology: Essays in Honor of John L. Sullivan, and The Political Psychology of Democratic Citizenship. More»
#1068 Kristen Ghodsee: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

Mar 7, 2025

Dr. Kristen Ghodsee is an award-winning author and professor and chair of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as a member on the graduate groups of Anthropology and Comparative Literature. Dr. Ghodsee’s articles and essays have been translated into over twenty-five languages and have appeared in publications such as Dissent, Foreign Affairs, Jacobin, The Baffler, The New Republic, Quartz, NBC Think, The Lancet, Project Syndicate, Le Monde Diplomatique, Die Tageszeitung, The Washington Post, and the New York Times. She is the author of 12 books, including Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence. More»
#1060 João Cancela: Atitudes Políticas, Confiança nas Instituições e Populismo em Portugal

Feb 17, 2025

THIS INTERVIEW IS IN PORTUGUESE. More»
#1056 Elena Ziliotti - Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory

Feb 7, 2025

Dr. Elena Ziliotti is an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Delft University of Technology. She works on Comparative political theory, focusing on debates in contemporary Confucian and Western political theory. She is the author of Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory. More»
#1037 John Hibbing: The Left, The Right, and the Biology of Political Differences

Dec 26, 2024

Dr. John Hibbing is the Foundation Regents University professor of political science and psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, a NATO Fellow in Science, and a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the author of Predisposed: The Left, The Right, and the Biology of Political Differences. More»
#1025 Katie Rose Hejtmanek - Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong As Feminist

Nov 28, 2024

Dr. Katie Rose Hejtmanek is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Children and Youth Studies Program at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Her current research examines sports practices and social change. Her teaching includes courses on the anthropology of sport, and gender and sexuality at New York University and Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA. She is a three-time competitor at IPF World Masters Powerlifting Championships and is a Trauma-Informed Weightlifting-certified strength coach. She is co-editor of Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong As Feminist. More»
#1024 Matthew McManus: The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism

Nov 25, 2024

Dr. Matthew McManus is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is the author of books like The Emergence of Postmodernity, The Political Right and Equality, and The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism. More»
#1021 Richard Wolff (@RichardDWolff): Socialism, Marxism, and Trump's Second Term

Nov 18, 2024

Dr. Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He is also the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. Over the last 25 years, in collaboration with his colleague, Stephen Resnick, he has developed a new approach to political economy. While it retains and systematically elaborates the Marxist notion of class as surplus labor, it rejects the economic determinism typical of most schools of economics and usually associated with Marxism as well. More»