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Steven K. Green, "American Infidelity: The Gilded Age Battle Over Freethought, Free Love, and Feminism" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Today I'm speaking with Steven K. Green, Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies at Willamette University. We are discussing his book, American Infidelity: The Gilded Age Battle Over Freethought, Free... more

29 Jul 2026

Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State" (Oxford UP, 2025)

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early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia.

The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution,

and a profusion of laws that recognized individual music and dance

expressions as intangible cultura... more

26 Jul 2026 • 1 hr

Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia

(Cornell University Press, 2026) uncovers colonial South Asia's

critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the

government of British India cre... more

25 Jul 2026 • 57 min

Samuel Moyn, "Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It" (FSG, 2026)

A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it.

As Americans debate President Biden’s infirmities and President Trump’s erratic behavior, we’ve neglected the bigger problem before us: a massive transfer... more

25 Jul 2026 • 1 hr 3 min • Most popular

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Recent Guests

Steven K. Green

Fred H. Paulus, Professor of Law, Willamette University; Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies

Willamette University

Episode: Steven K. Green, "American Infidelity: The Gilded Age Battle Over Freethought, Free Love, and Feminism" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Samuel Moyn

Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University

Yale University

Episode: Samuel Moyn, "Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It" (FSG, 2026)

Dana Burchardt

Author of The Authority of International Courts, A Behavioural Framework

Berlin Social Science Center (Berlin, Germany)

Episode: Dana Burchardt, "The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Framework" (Hart Publishing, 2026)

Gabriella Soto

Contemporary archaeologist focusing on migration materialities and border deaths

Arizona State University; Binational Migration Institute; University of Arizona Press author

Episode: Gabriella Soto, "Border Afterlives: Migrant Deaths, Forensic Investigations, and the Politics of Haunting" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

Renisa Mawani

Author of Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire

University of British Columbia

Episode: Renisa Mawani, "Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire" (Duke UP, 2018)

Sue Donaldson

Canadian author and animal advocate

Queen's University (Animal Ethics Group APPLE)

Episode: Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, "Animals and the Right to Politics" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Will Kymlicka

Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University

Queen's University

Episode: Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, "Animals and the Right to Politics" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Erik J. Olsen

Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Seattle University

Seattle University

Episode: What are the Limits of Political Speech? A Conversation with Erik J. Olsen

Mordecai Kurz

Economist, author of Private Power and Democracy's Decline

Stanford University

Episode: Are Capitalism and Democracy Fundamentally Incompatible? A Conversation with Mordecai Kurz

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4.4 out of 5 stars from 48 ratings

A science 'grants researcher' as an interviewer on a legal podcast??
Not sure why the NB Network has science/medical 'grant researchers' with a pointed conservative agenda doing legal/law interviews. There are a lot of JDs out there more qualified to parse legal & religious books. Not impressive.
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Dana Burchardt, "The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Framework" (Hart Publishing, 2026)

Q: Could you explain the MOC framework and why you chose motivation, opportunity, and constraints as the core elements?

The MOC framework is a behavioral-inspired tool to assess how factors—motivation (values and interests), opportunity (jurisdiction, access rules, court practice), and constraints (knowledge, finances, external pressure)—shape whether actors accept or reject an international court's authority, and how these factors interact over time to produce measurable effects.

Samuel Moyn, "Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It" (FSG, 2026)

Q: And then just if you can walk us through some of its major points and then we can talk more in depth about what your work speaks to and concern with respect to our times.

Moyn outlines how aging shapes political and economic power, arguing for an intergenerational approach to policy that balances old and young through reforms in politics, taxation, and housing, while emphasizing that age is intertwined with class and race in producing inequality.

Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, "Animals and the Right to Politics" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Q: How do the authors redefine political agency beyond explicit intentions?

They argue for relational and distributed agency where politics emerges through uptake of expressions of subjectivity in social interactions and environments, not solely from preformed, explicit intentions.

Are Capitalism and Democracy Fundamentally Incompatible? A Conversation with Mordecai Kurz

Q: What are the key policy proposals to curb private power and make technology gains more broadly shared?

Proposals include reducing patent life for secondary patents, restricting technology acquisitions to prevent concentration, raising top marginal tax rates, and implementing a livelihood-based retraining and wage-support system to shield workers from disruption while ensuring redistribution.

Are Capitalism and Democracy Fundamentally Incompatible? A Conversation with Mordecai Kurz

Q: Could you talk a little about the kibbutz example and why pure egalitarianism worked there but not in a modern economy?

The kibbutz showed that pure egalitarianism can work when there is a strong collective aim and a state-building objective, but it failed over time because incentives diverge, specialization is necessary, and without a strong external objective it collapses under debt and inefficiency; thus, egalitarianism must be balanced with incentives and institutional support.

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