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
A conversation with Agustina Paglayan about her recent book, "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (Princeton UP)
A conversation with Ryan Balot about his recent book, "Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Michael Fuerstein about his recent book, "Experiments in Living Together: How Democracy Drives Social Progress" (Oxford UP).
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).
A conversation with Leah Downey about her recent book "Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Kevin Pham about his recent book, "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization" (Oxford UP).
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).
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).
A conversation with Vanessa Wills about her recent book, Marx's Ethical Vision (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Alasia Nuti about her recent co-authored book, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: on the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP).
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).
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).
A conversation with Nancy Rosenblum about her recent book "Ungoverning: the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Fabienne Peter about her recent book, "The Grounds of Political Legitimacy" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Stephen Darwall about his recent book "The Heart and Its Attitudes" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Alexandre Lefebvre about his recent book, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Jordan Cash about his recent book, "The Isolated Presidency" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Nazmul Sultan about his recent book "Waiting for the People: the Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought" (Harvard UP).
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).
A conversation with Aurelian Craiutu about his recent book, "Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP).
A conversation with Benjamin Schupmann about his recent book, "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Isaac Nakhimovsky about his recent book "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Genevieve Rousseliere about her recent book, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP).
A conversation with Samuel Bagg about his recent book "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP).
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).
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)
A conversation with Robert Pippin about his recent book "The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy" (U Chicago Press).
A conversation with Gianna Englert about her recent book, "Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Frank Lovett about his new book "The Well-Ordered Republic" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Richard Bourke about his recent book "Hegel's World Revolutions" (Princeton University Press).
A conversation with Richard Tuck about his recent book "Active and Passive Citizens: A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Laura Valentini about her recent book, "Morality and Socially Constructed Norms" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Alan S. Kahan about his recent book, "Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Jason Blakely about his recent book "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing).
A conversation with Ines Valdez about her recent book Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (Cambridge UP).
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.
A conversation with Lisa Herzog about her recent book "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP).
A conversation with Kristi Sweet on her recent book "Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: the Territory of the Third Critique" (Cambridge UP).
A conversation with Kevin J. Elliott about his recent book, "Democracy for Busy People" (U of Chicago Press).
A conversation with Christopher Yeomans about his recent book, "The Politics of German Idealism" (Oxford UP)
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).
A conversation with Constantine Vassiliou about his recent book "Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Smith, Hume, and Ferguson" (Edinburgh University Press).
A conversation with Stefan Eich about his recent book The Currency of Politics: the Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Kevin Vallier, All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP).
A conversation with John Scott about his recent book, "Rousseau's God: Theology, Religion, and the Natural Goodness of Man" (U of Chicago Press).
A conversation with Yascha Mounk about his new book, "The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time" (Penguin Random House).
A conversation with Haig Patapan about his recent book, A Dangerous Passion: Leadership and the Question of Honor (SUNY Press).
A conversation with Philip Pettit about his new book "The State" (Princeton UP).
A conversation with Melissa Lane about her new book "Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political" (Princeton UP).
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).
A conversation with David James about his recent book "Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy" (Cambridge UP).