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Episode 205: Stephen Darwall - Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century

May 12, 202659 min

Episode 204: Natalia Alexander - Growing People: the Enduring Legacy of John Dewey

May 7, 202657 min

Episode 203: Allison Merrick - Nietzsche on the Methods and Aims of Philosophy

Apr 24, 202657 min

Episode 202: Tejas Parasher - Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought

Apr 23, 20261h 9m

Ep 201Episode 201: Ryan Reed and Christopher Hallenbrook - Justice Across Generations

A conversation with Ryan Reed and Christopher Hallenbrook about their recent book, "Justice Across Generations: Equality, Opportunity, and the Social Contract" (Palgrave Macmillan).

Mar 19, 20261h 12m

Ep 200Episode 200: Colin Bird, Jeffrey Church, and Nicholas Tampio - How to Teach Political Theory

A 200th episode special-- Colin Bird, Jeffrey Church, and Nicholas Tampio discuss how to teach the introduction to Political Theory course, with reference to their textbooks:Colin Bird, An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Cambridge UP)Jeffrey Church, Introduction to Political Theory (Sage/CQ Press)Nicholas Tampio, Teaching Political Theory (Edward Elgar Press)

Mar 5, 20261h 12m

Ep 199Episode 199: Michael Illuzzi - Mending the Nation

A conversation with Michael Illuzzi about his recent book, "Mending the Nation: Reclaiming We the People in a Populist Age" (U Kansas Press).

Mar 5, 20261h 6m

Ep 198Episode 198: Shuk Ying Chan - Postcolonial Global Justice

A conversation with Shuk Ying Chan about her recent book, "Postcolonial Global Justice" (Princeton UP).

Feb 23, 202658 min

Ep 197Episode 197: Matthew Benjamin Cole - Fear the Future

A conversation with Matthew Benjamin Cole about his recent book, "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (University of Michigan Press).

Feb 2, 20261h 13m

Ep 196Episode 196: Michael Lazarus - Absolute Ethical Life

A conversation with Michael Lazarus about his recent book, "Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel, and Marx" (Stanford University Press).

Jan 20, 20261h 8m

Ep 195Episode 195: Laura K. Field - Furious Minds

A conversation with Laura K. Field about her recent book, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP).

Jan 12, 20261h 4m

Ep 194Episode 194: David Wiens - From the Best to the Rest

A conversation with David Wiens about his recent book, "From the Best to the Rest: Idealistic Thinking in a Non-Ideal World" (Oxford UP).

Jan 6, 20261h 19m

Ep 193Episode 193: Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande - The Politics of Islamic Ethics

A conversation with Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande about her recent book, "The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition" (Cambridge UP).

Dec 18, 20251h 3m

Ep 192Episode 192: John McCormick - The People's Princes

A conversation with John McCormick about his recent book, "The People's Princes: Machiavelli, Leadership, and Liberty" (U of Chicago Press).

Dec 9, 20251h 11m

Ep 191Episode 191: John Harpham - The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery

A conversation with John Harpham about his recent book, "The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP).

Dec 2, 20251h 12m

Ep 190Episode 190: Alex Zakaras - Freedom for All

A conversation with Alex Zakaras about his recent book "Freedom for All: What a Liberal Society Could Be" (Yale UP).

Nov 18, 20251h 3m

Ep 189Episode 189: Roxanne Euben - Driven to Their Knees

A conversation with Roxanne Euben about her recent book, "Driven to their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics" (Princeton UP).

Oct 28, 20251h 7m

Ep 188Episode 188: Lisa Herzog - The Democratic Marketplace

A conversation with Lisa Herzog about her recent book "The Democratic Marketplace: How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals" (Harvard UP).

Oct 14, 20251h 0m

Ep 187Episode 187: Douglas Moggach - Freedom and Perfection

A conversation with Douglas Moggach about his recent book "Freedom and Perfection: German Political Thought from Leibniz to Marx" (Cambridge UP).

Sep 30, 20251h 7m

Ep 186Episode 186: William Galston - Anger, Fear, Domination

A conversation with William Galston about his recent book, "Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech" (Yale UP).

Sep 11, 202536 min

Ep 185Episode 185: Cass Sunstein - On Liberalism

A conversation with Cass Sunstein about his recent book "On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom" (MIT Press).

Sep 10, 202550 min

Ep 184Episode 184: John Christman - Reconceiving Freedom from the Shadows of Slavery

A conversation with John Christman about his recent book, "Reconceiving Liberty from the Shadows of Slavery: Liberty in a Nonideal World" (Cambridge UP)

Aug 28, 20251h 21m

Ep 183Episode 183: Linda Zerilli - A Democratic Theory of Truth

A conversation with Linda Zerilli about her recent book, "A Democratic Theory of Truth" (U of Chicago Press).

Aug 12, 202556 min

Ep 182Episode 182: Alyssa Battistoni - Free Gifts

A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about her recent book, "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" (Princeton UP)

Jul 23, 20251h 8m

Ep 181Episode 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 9, 20251h 13m

Ep 180Episode 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, 202557 min

Ep 179Episode 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 4, 20251h 9m

Ep 178Episode 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, 20251h 6m

Ep 177Episode 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, 20251h 16m

Ep 176Episode 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, 20251h 1m

Ep 175Episode 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, 202558 min

Ep 174Episode 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, 20251h 5m

Ep 173Episode 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 6, 20251h 2m

Ep 172Episode 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, 20251h 16m

Ep 171Episode 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, 20251h 6m

Ep 170Episode 170: Vanessa Wills - Marx's Ethical Vision

A conversation with Vanessa Wills about her recent book, Marx's Ethical Vision (Oxford UP).

Jan 30, 20251h 9m

Ep 169Episode 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 8, 20251h 15m

Ep 168Episode 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, 20241h 9m

Ep 167Episode 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, 20241h 20m

Ep 166Episode 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, 202448 min

Ep 165Episode 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 7, 20241h 3m

Ep 164Episode 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 4, 20241h 8m

Ep 163Episode 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, 202459 min

Ep 162Episode 162: Jordan Cash - The Isolated Presidency

A conversation with Jordan Cash about his recent book, "The Isolated Presidency" (Oxford UP).

Oct 18, 20241h 12m

Ep 161Episode 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 8, 20241h 0m

Ep 160Episode 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, 20241h 14m

Ep 159Episode 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, 20241h 2m

Ep 158Episode 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, 20241h 13m

Ep 157Episode 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, 20241h 5m

Ep 156Episode 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, 20241h 24m