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American Politics
Interviews with scholars of American politics about their new books.
May 13, 2024
What does Biden’s temporary suspension of offensive arms transfers mean for US-Israeli relations?
Charles Blaha, a former State Department expert on the vetting of U.S. weapons transfers to other countries, helps us understand this important moment…
May 12, 2024
The Army under Fire
Cecily N. Zander’s The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era (LSU Press, 2024) is a pathbreaking study focusing on the …
May 12, 2024
State of Disaster
Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and…
May 12, 2024
Gender Revolution
Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life (Routledge, 2023) by Dr. Pamela Aronson and Matthew R. Fleming carefu…
May 8, 2024
Battlefield to Big Sky: A Conversation with Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy
Veteran and entrepreneur Tim Sheehy has led an action-packed life: a 2008 graduate of the Naval Academy, as a Navy SEAL he completed deployments in Ir…
May 8, 2024
Woman Up
While American television has long relied on a strategic foregrounding of feminist politics to promote certain programming's cultural value, Woman Up:…
May 8, 2024
The Making of an Alliance
Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book provides critical background on the origins and de…
May 6, 2024
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia (Temple UP, 2022) provides an in-depth historical anal…
May 5, 2024
Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War
Decisions to go to war are often framed in cost-benefit terms, and typically such assessments do not factor in longer term costs. However, recent dram…
April 28, 2024
The Constitution of the War on Drugs
David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the new book, The Constitution of the War on Drugs…
April 28, 2024
Disruption
In Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Michael De Groot argues that…
April 27, 2024
The #MeToo Effect
The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained respo…
April 26, 2024
Tracks on the Trail
From Bill Clinton playing his saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show to Barack Obama referencing Jay-Z's song "Dirt Off Your Shoulder," politicians have u…
April 24, 2024
Digital Empires
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are raci…
April 23, 2024
Free Time
Free time, one of life’s most precious things, often feels unfulfilling. But why? And how did leisure activities transition from strolling in the park…
April 23, 2024
The Power to Destroy
The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Gra…
April 21, 2024
America’s New Racial Battle Lines
What is happening to the politics of race in America? In America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair (U Chicago Press, 2024), Rogers Sm…
April 19, 2024
On Fiorello La Guardia and Why He Still Matters
Has any American mayor ever made a greater stamp on the public consciousness than the Little Flower, Fiorello La Guardia, mayor of New York City from …
April 17, 2024
Words of Attack
With a presidential campaign in the US just around the corner and populist and authoritarian thinkers gaining broader platforms, University of Notre D…
April 15, 2024
The Darkened Light of Faith
Political Theorist Melvin L. Rogers has a deep and rich new book delving into the work of a host of different African American political thinkers. But…