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Amy McDowell
Author of Whispers in the Pews, Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America
University of Mississippi
Episode: Amy D. McDowell, "Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America" (NYU Press, 2026)
Charles L. Glaser
Professor and Senior Fellow in the MIT Security Studies Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Episode: Charles L. Glaser, "Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America's Future Against a Rising China" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Kira Kieffer
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Wesleyan University; author of Unvaccinated Under God
Wesleyan University; Princeton University Press
Episode: Kira Ganga Kieffer, "Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Dr. Rachel Grace Newman
Author of The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite (UC Press, 2026)
University of California Press (author)
Episode: Rachel Grace Newman, "The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite" (U California Press, 2026)
Shannon McKenna Schmidt
Author of You Can't Catch Us, Lady Bird Johnson's trailblazing 1964 campaign train, and the women who rode with her
Sourcebooks
Episode: Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode With Her" (Sourcebooks, 2026)
Brenda Boyle
Professor Emerita of Denison University; author of American War Stories (Rutgers University Press, 2021)
Denison University; Rutgers University Press
Episode: Brenda Boyle, "American War Stories" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Dr. Mark Peterson
Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History, Yale University, author of The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution, A Thousand-Year History
Yale University
Episode: Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Dr. Julia Bowes
Author of Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism
Princeton University Press
Episode: Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Mallory Stewart
Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Strategic Risks; expert on weapons of mass destruction, space security policy, and emerging technologies
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Q: When you discuss AI-enabled drones representing a form of warfare that avoids human contact, what unique aspects does AI bring to dehumanization or impersonal war?
AI enables rapid targeting, extended reach over long distances, terrain awareness, and limited human involvement, which lowers the barriers to entry for ordinary civilians to participate in warfare and could make future conflict more impersonal and accessible, while raising questions about accountability and the enduring human costs of war.
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State: A Conversation with Stephen Sims
Q: Could you just walk us through how we got to the current existing structure of the nation state and our idea of it?
Sims outlines a historical trajectory from monarchies building war-capable states by extracting resources from subjects, through the rise of centralized sovereignty, to the modern nation-state where nationalism and democratization co-opt state power for total war, while suggesting that recent technological shifts could either reinforce centralized authority or precipitate new forms of sovereignty, including failed states where control is weak.
Nathaniel Greenberg, "The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in Arabic After 9/11" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Q: How did the post-9/11 operations in Arabic-speaking regions redefine the boundaries between informational, cultural, and military aims?
The campaigns blended cultural exchange with strategic communications and counterterrorism messaging, and I show how entities like Al Hurra and Radio Sawa were part of a broader ecosystem that attempted to shape public opinion while also engaging in covert operations, with mixed results and often limited measurement.
Victor Li, "Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Q: What led you to focus on Parker as a transformative figure in the confirmation process?
Parker's case sits at a historical inflection point where the mechanics of confirmations began to reflect organized political opposition from labor and civil rights groups, influencing how later nominees would be scrutinized and debated.

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