Episode 181: Amit Ron and Abraham Singer - Everyone's Business
A conversation with Amit Ron and Abraham Singer about their recent book, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press).
Jul 09, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 181
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Episode 180: Robert Gooding-Williams - Democracy and Beauty
A conversation with Robert Gooding-Williams about his recent book, "Democracy and Beauty: the Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. DuBois" (Columbia UP).
Jun 19, 2025•58 min•Ep. 180
Episode 179: Natasha Piano - Democratic Elitism
A conversation with Natasha Piano about her recent book, "Democratic Elitism: the Founding Myth of American Political Science" (Harvard UP).
Jun 04, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 179
Episode 178: Agustina Paglayan - Raised to Obey
A conversation with Agustina Paglayan about her recent book, "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (Princeton UP)
May 20, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 178
Episode 177: Ryan Balot - Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws
A conversation with Ryan Balot about his recent book, "Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws" (Oxford UP).
May 16, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 177
Episode 176: Michael Fuerstein - Experiments in Living Together
A conversation with Michael Fuerstein about his recent book, "Experiments in Living Together: How Democracy Drives Social Progress" (Oxford UP).
Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 176
Episode 175: Laurie M. Johnson - The Gap in God''s Country
A conversation with Laurie M. Johnson about her recent book, "The Gap in God's Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars" (Wipf & Stock).
Apr 10, 2025•59 min•Ep. 175
Episode 174: Leah Downey - Our Money
A conversation with Leah Downey about her recent book "Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP).
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 174
Episode 173: Kevin Pham - The Architects of Dignity
A conversation with Kevin Pham about his recent book, "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization" (Oxford UP).
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 173
Episode 172: Ali Aslam, David McIvor, and Joel Schlosser - Earthborn Democracy
A conversation with Ali Aslam, David McIvor, and Joel Schlosser about their recent book, "Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life" (Columbia University Press).
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 172
Episode 171: Anna Marisa Schoen - Nations before the Nation-State
A conversation with Anna Marisa Schoen about her recent book, "Nations before the Nation-State: Between City-State and Empire from Antiquity to the Present" (Cambridge UP).
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 171
Episode 170: Vanessa Wills - Marx's Ethical Vision
A conversation with Vanessa Wills about her recent book, Marx's Ethical Vision (Oxford UP).
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 170
Episode 169: Alasia Nuti - Politicizing Political Liberalism
A conversation with Alasia Nuti about her recent co-authored book, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: on the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP).
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 169
Episode 168: Espen Hammer - After the Death of God
A conversation with Espen Hammer about his forthcoming book "After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche" (U of Chicago Press).
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 168
Episode 167: Mary Nichols - Aristotle's Discovery of the Human
A conversation with Mary Nichols about her recent book, "Aristotle's Discovery of the Human: Piety and Politics in the Nicomachean Ethics" (Notre Dame UP).
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 167
Episode 166: Nancy Rosenblum - Ungoverning
A conversation with Nancy Rosenblum about her recent book "Ungoverning: the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos" (Princeton UP).
Nov 19, 2024•49 min•Ep. 166
Episode 165: Fabienne Peter - The Grounds of Political Legitimacy
A conversation with Fabienne Peter about her recent book, "The Grounds of Political Legitimacy" (Oxford UP).
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 165
Episode 164: Stephen Darwall - The Heart and Its Attitudes
A conversation with Stephen Darwall about his recent book "The Heart and Its Attitudes" (Oxford UP).
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 164
Episode 163: Alexandre Lefebvre - Liberalism as a Way of Life
A conversation with Alexandre Lefebvre about his recent book, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP).
Oct 29, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 163
Episode 162: Jordan Cash - The Isolated Presidency
A conversation with Jordan Cash about his recent book, "The Isolated Presidency" (Oxford UP).
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 162
Episode 161: Nazmul Sultan - Waiting for the People
A conversation with Nazmul Sultan about his recent book "Waiting for the People: the Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought" (Harvard UP).
Oct 08, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 161
Episode 160: David Lay Williams - The Greatest of All Plagues
A conversation with David Lay Williams about his recent book, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton University Press).
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 160
Episode 159: Aurelian Craiutu - Why Not Moderation?
A conversation with Aurelian Craiutu about his recent book, "Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP).
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 159
Episode 158: Benjamin Schupmann - Democracy Despite Itself
A conversation with Benjamin Schupmann about his recent book, "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" (Oxford UP).
Aug 29, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 158
Episode 157: Isaac Nakhimovsky - The Holy Alliance
A conversation with Isaac Nakhimovsky about his recent book "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP).
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 157
Episode 156: Genevieve Rousseliere - Sharing Freedom
A conversation with Genevieve Rousseliere about her recent book, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP).
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 156
Episode 155: Samuel Bagg - The Dispersion of Power
A conversation with Samuel Bagg about his recent book "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP).
Jul 29, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 155
Episode 154: Aaron Alexander Zubia - The Political Thought of David Hume
A conversation with Aaron Alexander Zubia about his recent book, "The Political Thought of David Hume: the Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination" (Notre Dame Press).
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 154
Episode 153: Jeff Spinner-Halev - Respect and Loathing in American Democracy
A conversation with Jeff Spinner-Halev about his recent book, "Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality" (U of Chicago Press, co-authored with Elizabeth Theiss-Morse)
Jul 12, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 153
Episode 152: Robert Pippin - The Culmination
A conversation with Robert Pippin about his recent book "The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy" (U Chicago Press).
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 152
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