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Author of Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence

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Daniel Bell

Professor of political theory, University of Hong Kong

University of Hong Kong

Episode: Daniel A. Bell, "Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Victor Li

Author of Supreme Pressure, assistant managing editor for the ABA Journal

ABA Journal

Episode: Victor Li, "Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

Larry Bartels

Political scientist at Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

Episode: Larry M. Bartels and Katherine J. Cramer, "The Politics of Social Change: From the Sixties to the Present Through the Eyes of a Generation" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Katherine Cramer

Political scientist at University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Episode: Larry M. Bartels and Katherine J. Cramer, "The Politics of Social Change: From the Sixties to the Present Through the Eyes of a Generation" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Lisa Siraganian

JR. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

Episode: Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)

Thea Riofrancos

Associate Professor of Political Science, Providence College; Climate and Community Institute co-director

Providence College; Transnational Institute (Fellow)

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Tanzeen Doha

Visiting assistant professor; anthropologist

University of Pittsburgh

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Salman Sayyid

Professor of thought and rhetoric

University of Durham

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4.5 out of 5 stars from 156 ratings

Good selection
Fine selection of relevant books, concise reviews and well informed discussion of conclusions.
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Jasper Klapwijk
Netherlands2 years ago
Expands your horizons. Interviews of authors. They cover a lot of good books that don't get attention from the more popular podcasts or book reviews.
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curious
4 years ago
John Yoo?
No.
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Concerned Political Scientist
United States5 years ago
Syrian
Big thank you Political Science.
To Blumenthal’s critics:
Keep your dirty petrodollars, your crazed Takfiri radical militants from China, Chechnya, and from all over the world, keep the mountains of media campaigns of deception, cynicism, and lies. Keep those maniac sectarian psychos who deny the river of blood shed at the hands of your “Moderate Rebels.”
But give us “Management of Savagery.”
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A Syrian NoOne
United States6 years ago
Brilliant
excellent resource for new academic pol-sci books and ideas
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Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)

Q: Could you walk us through why you think expanding legal personhood is, in many cases, depoliticizing rather than empowering?

Because it substitutes technical legal fixes for fundamental political questions about governance, capital, and social obligation, it can shift attention away from organizing rights and protections that actually benefit people and ecosystems.

Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)

Q: What sparked your interest in expanding personhood beyond humans, and what do you hope readers take away from the book?

The project emerged from recognizing that pursuing expansive personhood often rides on a historical, legal fiction that can erode collective responsibility; the takeaway is to see how rights rhetoric should be used carefully and complemented by political organizing that protects people and the environment.

Andrew Thomas Park, "Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Q: What drew you to study Sarah Wambaugh and the plebiscite as a historical episode?

I was drawn by the dramatic arc of a brilliant individual who tried to institutionalize a democratic mechanism in a period of upheaval, and by how the plebiscite became both a tool for peace and a casualty of political power struggles, which raises lasting questions about democracy in international relations.

Alex Diamond, "Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Q: Could you explain how the Brizeño story emerges and what central questions guided the book?

The guest explains that the empirical puzzle centers on how a coca-growing, violence-torn village transforms under a peace process, with livelihoods and state-building as the key lens to understand the relationship between local authority, armed groups, and state institutions.

Alex Diamond, "Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Q: So how did you become a sociologist? What led you to choose to do a PhD in sociology?

The guest describes an organic, long-term interest in culture and politics that evolved through living and teaching around the world, ultimately converging on ethnography during graduate work in Colombia, which shaped the book's focus on how people make a living under shifting political authority.

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