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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ... more

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Recent Guests

Mark Pennington
Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy, King's College London
King's College London
Episode: Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Mark Hlavacik
Author of Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Wars
Texas A&M University
Episode: Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Diego Gambetta
Professor and co-editor of the volume discussed
University (as context from discussion)
Episode: Thomas Hegghammer and Diego Gambetta eds., "Fight, Flight, Mimic: Identity Mimicry in Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sarah James
Author of The Politics of Failed Policies
Oxford University Press
Episode: Sarah James, "The Politics of Failed Policies" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Maya Kornberg
Author of Stuck, How Money, Media, and Violence Prevents Change in Congress
Johns Hopkins University Press
Episode: Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress" (JHU Press, 2026)
Tom Wells
Historian and author
Historian and author (Book: The Kissinger Tapes)
Episode: Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations" (Oxford UP, 2026)
John B. Judis
Author and political historian discussing his work and the Trump/Hegel thesis
Episode: On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis
Elin Bjarnegård
Professor of political science at the University of Uppsala
University of Uppsala
Episode: How Authoritarians Exploit Gender
Pär Zetterberg
Professor of political science at the University of Uppsala
University of Uppsala
Episode: How Authoritarians Exploit Gender

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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.

    Podcast Addict
    5
    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.”

    Apple Podcasts
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    A Syrian NoOne
    United States6 years ago
  • Brilliant

    excellent resource for new academic pol-sci books and ideas

    Apple Podcasts
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    Nipsey_Russell_
    United Kingdom6 years ago

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Stephen G. Brooks, "The Political Economy of Security" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: Can you walk us through a specific example of how economic factors influence conflict in both directions?
Brooks points to development and terrorism: as countries develop, the relationship is not linear. In early stages lack of development can keep terrorism low; in mid-development, terrorism rises; at high development, terrorism declines again, illustrating the nonmonotonic, inverse-U shape.
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis
Q: What does the Hegelian framework imply about the eventual fate of such a leader and the era they influence?
The framework suggests that world-historical individuals face a dark fate or exhaustion after their period of impact, with outcomes that may undermine their original aims and reshape the historical landscape in unforeseen ways.
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis
Q: How can Trump be a world-historical figure and yet seem to miscalculate what he is doing?
People often act with strong intentions while failing to fully anticipate consequences, leading to unintended outcomes like the morass in Iraq and tariff missteps; the discussion suggests that intention and outcome can diverge in powerful leaders.
Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Q: Let me ask you another question about your first chapter, Over Government, Power and the Correctional Estate. Can you explain what you mean by over-government and how it shapes everyday freedom today?
He explains over-government as a decentralized network of surveillance and nudging by various agencies pursuing different goals, which narrows the space for free experimentation and self-creation, occurring even in liberal societies.
Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Q: Before we start talking about the book, can you just very briefly introduce yourself, tell us about your field of expertise, and more importantly, how did the idea of this book come to you?
Pennington describes his background in political economy and his shift toward exploring the connections between Foucauldian thought and liberal traditions, driven by a sense that there are commonalities between biopolitics and liberalism as well as debates about biopolitics and neoliberalism.

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