politics

#963 Abraham Newman - Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

Jul 5, 2024

Dr. Abraham Newman is a Professor at the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. Known for his research on the politics generated by globalization, he serves as a frequent commentator on international affairs, appearing on news programs ranging from Al Jazeera to Deutsche Welle and NPR. He is a 2022–2023 Berlin Prize winner and his work has been published in leading outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, Nature, Science, and Foreign Affairs. His latest book, together with Henry Farrell, is Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy. More»
#960 Grace Blakeley: Vulture Capitalism

Jun 28, 2024

Grace Blakeley is an author, journalist, and political commentator. She attended University of Oxford where she graduated with a first-class honors degree in philosophy, economics, and politics. She has written for the Guardian, Tribune and the New Statesman among others, and appears regularly on television and radio, including on ITV Good Morning Britain, TalkTV and Jeremy Vine on Channel Five. She is the author of Stolen (Repeater), The Corona Crash (Verso), and her latest book, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom. More»
#948 Honorata Mazepus: Democracy, Political Legitimacy, and the European Union

May 31, 2024

Dr. Honorata Mazepus is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Amsterdam. Her research topics include links between institutions and individuals; legitimacy; fairness; and post-communism. More»
#946 Elizabeth Anderson: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers

May 27, 2024

Dr. Elizabeth Anderson is Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor, and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. Dr. Anderson specializes in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences. Her latest book is Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back. More»
#943 Hyrum Lewis - The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America

May 20, 2024

Dr. Hyrum Lewis is a Professor of History at Brigham Young University-Idaho and was previously a visiting scholar at Stanford University. His research interests include the early U.S., Modern China, American intellectual history, and the history of American culture and film. He is the author of The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America. More»
#937 Oliver Traldi - Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction

May 6, 2024

Dr. Oliver Traldi is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He studies epistemology, focusing on questions about the nature of epistemic norms and the epistemology of the social world, especially the epistemology of politics. He works on norms of inquiry, conceptual engineering, reasons for belief, inferring beliefs from actions, the epistemology of disagreement, and the epistemology of moral progress. He is the author of Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction. More»
#930 Rebecca Earle: The History and Politics of the Potato

Apr 19, 2024

Dr. Rebecca Earle is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. She is a historian, specializing in the history of food and colonial and 19th-century Spanish America. She is the author of books like “The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700”, “Potato”, and “Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato”. More»
#906 Suthan Krishnarajan: Regime Instability and Support for Democracy and Autocracy

Feb 29, 2024

Dr. Suthan Krishnarajan is Associate Professor in Political Science at Aarhus University. His research agenda seeks to understand and explain political regime instability. Broadly speaking, a political regime is the rules that determine who can access power, and how, in a given country. In democracies, leaders are chosen in competitive, free, and fair elections; in autocracies, leaders access power through alternative means. In his research, he examines why such regimes sometimes endure and at other times break down. I do so from three traditional disciplines in political science: comparative politics, public opinion, and international relations. More»
#898 Eli Merritt: How to Save Democracy

Feb 9, 2024

Dr. Eli Merritt is a political historian at Vanderbilt University where he researches the ethics of democracy, the interface of demagogues and democracy, and the founding principles of the United States. He is the editor of How to Save Democracy: Inspiration and Advice From 95 World Leaders. More»
#889 Nadine Strossen - Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know

Jan 19, 2024

Dr. Nadine Strossen is the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law School and past President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008). She is also a Senior Fellow with FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education) and a leading expert and frequent speaker/media commentator on constitutional law and civil liberties. She serves on the advisory boards of the ACLU, Academic Freedom Alliance, Heterodox Academy, National Coalition Against Censorship, and the University of Austin. Her latest book is Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know. More»