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Conversations with scholars on recent books in Political Theory and Social and Political Philosophy. Image: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), After a model by Jean Antoine Houdon (French, Versailles 1741–1828 Paris), in the public domain courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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    Episode 178: Agustina Paglayan - Raised to Obey

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 66:18


    A conversation with Agustina Paglayan about her recent book, "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (Princeton UP)

    Episode 177: Ryan Balot - Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 76:49


    A conversation with Ryan Balot about his recent book, "Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws" (Oxford UP).

    Episode 176: Michael Fuerstein - Experiments in Living Together

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 61:04


    A conversation with Michael Fuerstein about his recent book, "Experiments in Living Together: How Democracy Drives Social Progress" (Oxford UP).

    Episode 175: Laurie M. Johnson - The Gap in God''s Country

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 58:52


    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).

    Episode 174: Leah Downey - Our Money

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 65:19


    A conversation with Leah Downey about her recent book "Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP). 

    Episode 173: Kevin Pham - The Architects of Dignity

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 62:28


    A conversation with Kevin Pham about his recent book, "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization" (Oxford UP).

    Episode 172: Ali Aslam, David McIvor, and Joel Schlosser - Earthborn Democracy

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 76:00


    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).

    Episode 171: Anna Marisa Schoen - Nations before the Nation-State

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 66:19


    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).

    Episode 170: Vanessa Wills - Marx's Ethical Vision

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2025 69:32


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

    Episode 169: Alasia Nuti - Politicizing Political Liberalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2025 75:19


    A conversation with Alasia Nuti about her recent co-authored book, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: on the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP).

    Episode 168: Espen Hammer - After the Death of God

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024 69:11


    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).

    Episode 167: Mary Nichols - Aristotle's Discovery of the Human

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2024 80:23


    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).

    Episode 166: Nancy Rosenblum - Ungoverning

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2024 48:41


    A conversation with Nancy Rosenblum about her recent book "Ungoverning: the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos" (Princeton UP).

    Episode 165: Fabienne Peter - The Grounds of Political Legitimacy

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2024 63:48


    A conversation with Fabienne Peter about her recent book, "The Grounds of Political Legitimacy" (Oxford UP).

    Episode 164: Stephen Darwall - The Heart and Its Attitudes

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 68:55


    A conversation with Stephen Darwall about his recent book "The Heart and Its Attitudes" (Oxford UP).

    Episode 163: Alexandre Lefebvre - Liberalism as a Way of Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 59:37


    A conversation with Alexandre Lefebvre about his recent book, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP).

    Episode 162: Jordan Cash - The Isolated Presidency

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 72:49


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

    Episode 161: Nazmul Sultan - Waiting for the People

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 60:41


    A conversation with Nazmul Sultan about his recent book "Waiting for the People: the Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought" (Harvard UP).

    Episode 160: David Lay Williams - The Greatest of All Plagues

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2024 74:01


    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).

    Episode 159: Aurelian Craiutu - Why Not Moderation?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 62:30


    A conversation with Aurelian Craiutu about his recent book, "Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP).

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    Episode 158: Benjamin Schupmann - Democracy Despite Itself

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2024 73:50


    A conversation with Benjamin Schupmann about his recent book, "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" (Oxford UP).

    Episode 157: Isaac Nakhimovsky - The Holy Alliance

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2024 65:42


    A conversation with Isaac Nakhimovsky about his recent book "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP).

    Episode 156: Genevieve Rousseliere - Sharing Freedom

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2024 84:16


    A conversation with Genevieve Rousseliere about her recent book, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP).

    Episode 155: Samuel Bagg - The Dispersion of Power

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024 80:11


    A conversation with Samuel Bagg about his recent book "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP).

    Episode 154: Aaron Alexander Zubia - The Political Thought of David Hume

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2024 72:41


    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).

    Episode 153: Jeff Spinner-Halev - Respect and Loathing in American Democracy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2024 63:16


    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)

    Episode 152: Robert Pippin - The Culmination

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2024 64:16


    A conversation with Robert Pippin about his recent book "The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy" (U Chicago Press).

    Episode 151: Gianna Englert - Democracy Tamed

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2024 69:56


    A conversation with Gianna Englert about her recent book, "Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage" (Oxford UP).

    Episode 150: Frank Lovett - The Well-Ordered Republic

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2024 79:42


    A conversation with Frank Lovett about his new book "The Well-Ordered Republic" (Oxford UP).

    Episode 149: Richard Bourke - Hegel's World Revolutions

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2024 68:55


    A conversation with Richard Bourke about his recent book "Hegel's World Revolutions" (Princeton University Press).

    Episode 148: Richard Tuck - Active and Passive Citizens

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2024 61:15


    A conversation with Richard Tuck about his recent book "Active and Passive Citizens: A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy" (Princeton UP).

    Episode 147: Laura Valentini - Morality and Socially Constructed Norms

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2024 80:51


    A conversation with Laura Valentini about her recent book, "Morality and Socially Constructed Norms" (Oxford UP).

    Episode 146: Alan S. Kahan - Freedom from Fear

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2024 76:59


    A conversation with Alan S. Kahan about his recent book, "Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism" (Princeton UP).

    Episode 145: Jason Blakely - Lost in Ideology

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2024 78:00


    A conversation with Jason Blakely about his recent book "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing).

    Episode 144: Ines Valdez - Democracy and Empire

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2024 66:12


    A conversation with Ines Valdez about her recent book Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (Cambridge UP).

    Episode 143: Justin Dyer - The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2024 64:02


    A conversation with Justin Dyer about his recent book, "The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding," from Cambridge University Press.

    Episode 142: Lisa Herzog - Citizen Knowledge

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 74:00


    A conversation with Lisa Herzog about her recent book "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP).

    Episode 141: Kristi Sweet - Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2024 63:33


    A conversation with Kristi Sweet on her recent book "Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: the Territory of the Third Critique" (Cambridge UP).

    Episode 140: Kevin Elliott - Democracy for Busy People

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2024 81:29


    A conversation with Kevin J. Elliott about his recent book, "Democracy for Busy People" (U of Chicago Press).

    Episode 139: Christopher Yeomans - The Politics of German Idealism

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2023 75:17


    A conversation with Christopher Yeomans about his recent book, "The Politics of German Idealism" (Oxford UP) 

    Episode 138: Melvin Rogers - The Darkened Light of Faith

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2023 76:43


    A conversation with Melvin Rogers about his recent book "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African-American Political Thought" (Princeton UP).

    Episode 137: Constantine Vassiliou - Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2023 73:50


    A conversation with Constantine Vassiliou about his recent book "Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Smith, Hume, and Ferguson" (Edinburgh University Press).

    Episode 136: Stefan Eich - The Currency of Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2023 77:52


    A conversation with Stefan Eich about his recent book The Currency of Politics: the Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes (Princeton UP).

    Episode 135: Kevin Vallier - All the Kingdoms of the World

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2023 72:11


    A conversation with Kevin Vallier, All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP).

    Episode 134: John Scott - Rousseau's God

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2023 74:42


    A conversation with John Scott about his recent book, "Rousseau's God: Theology, Religion, and the Natural Goodness of Man" (U of Chicago Press).

    Episode 133: Yascha Mounk - The Identity Trap

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2023 79:43


    A conversation with Yascha Mounk about his new book, "The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time" (Penguin Random House).

    Episode 132: Haig Patapan - A Dangerous Passion

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2023 64:45


    A conversation with Haig Patapan about his recent book, A Dangerous Passion: Leadership and the Question of Honor (SUNY Press).

    Episode 131: Philip Pettit - The State

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2023 70:23


    A conversation with Philip Pettit about his new book "The State" (Princeton UP).

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    Episode 130: Melissa Lane - Of Rule and Office

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2023 66:46


    A conversation with Melissa Lane about her new book "Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political" (Princeton UP).

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    Episode 129: Donovan Miyasaki - Nietzsche's Immoralism and Politics after Morality

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2023 90:06


    A conversation with Donovan Miyasaki about his recent two-volume project, Nietzsche's Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy (Palgrave) and Politics after Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left (Palgrave).

    Episode 128: David James - Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2023 84:00


    A conversation with David James about his recent book "Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy" (Cambridge UP).

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