New Books in Political Science
Interviews with Political Scientists about their New Books
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- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Vincent W. Lloyd, "Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination" (Yale UP, 2022)
This radical work by one of the leading young scholars of Black thought delineates a new concept of Black dignity, yet one with a long history in Black writing and action. Previously in the West, dig…
01:00:20 |
Sat 09 Sep 2023
Andrea Muehlebach, "A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe" (Duke UP, 2023)
In A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe (Duke University Press, 2023)) Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as they organize to preserve water as a commons and pub…
00:37:52 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
The Future of the NHS: A Discussion with Gavin Francis
The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are resorting to private care – is not unusual now for…
00:44:42 |
Sun 03 Sep 2023
Bryan Pitts, "Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship" (U California Press, 2023)
Bryan Pitts' book Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship (U California Press, 2023) reveals how Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship cont…
01:10:09 |
Sun 03 Sep 2023
Amy H. Liu and Jacob I. Ricks, "Ethnicity and Politics in Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
What explains the varying treatment of ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia? Why have some states in the region been far more successful than others in handling relations with minorities? And why have…
00:29:44 |
Fri 01 Sep 2023
Who’s Afraid of the Catholic Integralists? (with Kevin Vallier)
Kevin Vallier is a philosophy professor and author of All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP, 2023), a new book about Catholic Integralism, a mostly…
00:56:38 |
Thu 31 Aug 2023
Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Sarah Coleman, an historian at Texas State University, is the author of an important and topical book about immigration policy in the United States. The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in M…
00:47:21 |
Thu 31 Aug 2023
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)
With the US Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, “it makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly shaped the law: Constance Baker Motley” (CNN). Born…
01:01:43 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
In my talk with Barry Gewen on his 2020 book, The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World (W. W. Norton, 2020), we explore the disparate influences that shaped Kissinger as both an in…
00:59:44 |
Tue 29 Aug 2023
How Should Protestants Engage With Natural Law Theory?
Natural law theory is known to be more emphasized among Catholics than Protestants. Why is that the case, and should it be? Do Protestants need to focus more on philosophy? Today's guest, Andrew T. W…
00:48:37 |
Tue 29 Aug 2023
David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
Thy Power, O Liberty, make strong the weak,
And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak.
At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley published the first book in English by a person of African descent and the th…
01:09:43 |
Mon 28 Aug 2023
Samson A. Bezabeh, "Djibouti: A Political History" (Lynne Rienner, 2023)
Wedged between Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, at the intersection of the world’s busiest shipping routes, Djibouti has long been a global geostrategic hub. In Djibouti: A Political History (Lynne R…
01:14:37 |
Sun 27 Aug 2023
Peter Heather and John Rapley, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West" (Yale UP, 2023)
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, around the start of the new millennium, history took a dramatic turn. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political …
00:49:06 |
Sun 27 Aug 2023
Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, "Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. In Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader (U Illinois Press, 2023), Frederick W. Gooding Jr.…
00:29:40 |
Sat 26 Aug 2023
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare with regard to legal gender. Based on empirical re…
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Sat 26 Aug 2023
Alice Wilson, "Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman" (Stanford UP, 2023)
The Dhufar Revolution was fought between 1965–1976, in an attempt to depose Oman's British-backed Sultan and advance social ideals of egalitarianism and gender equality. Dhufar, the southernmost gove…
00:56:25 |
Sat 26 Aug 2023
Marisa Holmes, "Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wall Street movement, written from the perspective of …
00:44:19 |
Sat 26 Aug 2023
Indrajit Roy, "Passionate Politics: Democracy, Development and India’s 2019 General Election" (Manchester UP, 2023)
In May 2019, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the world's largest election. Indrajit Roy edited volume Passionate Politics: Democracy, Development and India’s 2019 General Election (Mancheste…
01:20:17 |
Fri 25 Aug 2023
Smita A. Rahman et al., "Globalizing Political Theory" (Routledge, 2022)
Three political theorists, Smita A. Rahman (DePauw University), Katherine A. Gordy (San Francisco State University), and Shirin S. Deylami (Western Washington University) have brought together an exc…
00:49:17 |
Thu 24 Aug 2023
PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event
Today’s episode of POSTSCRIPT explores and examines director Greta Gerwig’s film, Barbie. This Warner Brothers’ movie has been in theaters for under a month but has crossed the $1 billion dollar mark…
01:02:55 |
Wed 23 Aug 2023
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