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A sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton University Press, 2025) explores how woundedness became a basis for contemporary political identity. With... more

For decades, tree planting and forestry have been pivotal to Chinese environmentalism. During the Mao era, while forests were razed to fuel rapid increases in industrial production, the “Greening the Motherland” campaign promoted conservationist tree... more

Katelyn Stauffer, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia, has an excellent new book focusing on how voters and citizens perceive the legitimacy and functionality of political institutions, especially when they think the... more

Borneo—split between two countries, home to some of the world’s oldest rainforests and a vast array of animal and plant life—is back in the news. The island is set to be home to Nusantara, Indonesia’s new planned political capital set to, maybe, open... more

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Recent Guests

Elliot B. Hanowski
Author of Towards a Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada
University of Manitoba; International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism and Humanism
Episode: Elliot B. Hanowski, "Towards a Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2023)
Kaitlin Tremblay
Author of Life is Strange
Boss Fight Books
Episode: Kaitlin Tremblay, "Life is Strange" (Boss Fight Books, 2026)
Suzanne Nucomb
Senior lecturer in religious studies at the Open University
Open University
Episode: The 4th Yoga Darśana Yoga Sādhana Conference
Rafael Hua
Research fellow at CNRS Anthropology, co-director of the Center for South Asian and Malayan Studies
CNRS Anthropology, Center for South Asian and Malayan Studies
Episode: The 4th Yoga Darśana Yoga Sādhana Conference
Daneesh Majid
Journalist and author based in Hyderabad
Harper Collins India
Episode: Daneesh Majid, "The Hyderabadis: From 1947 to the Present Day" (Harper Collins, 2025)
Glen Oglaza
Author, journalist and poet
Author of When I Stories and More When I Stories
Episode: Glen Oglaza, "When I Stories" (Pegasus, 2024)
Britt Paris
Author of Radical Infrastructure, Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up
Rutgers School of Communication and Information
Episode: Britt Paris, "Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up" (U California Press, 2025)
Joshua Berman
Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman, professor of Tanakh at Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University
Episode: Joshua Berman, "Echoes of Egypt: A Haggada" (Koren, 2026)
Ozan Zeybek
Author; human geographer
Palgrave Macmillan / author of Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence, Shared Struggles in Turkey
Episode: Sezai Ozan Zeybek, "Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

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    United Kingdom24 days ago
  • Radioactive Dixie episode….

    A very prejudiced and loaded episode. Why would living near a nuclear power station will affect your life significantly? It wouldn’t. Have either of you visited one? Author or interviewer?

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    Ben Bronx
    United Kingdom2 months ago
  • Important historical analyses

    Lisa Silverman is an historian whose books I want to explore, based on this interview. I’m not an academically-trained historian, but read and study a lot, especially from the first half of the twentieth century. Thank you for giving her the platform for explaining her ideas. I’m embarking on post-WWII histories now, and my reading list is enhanced.

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  • Simms pedaling his ludicrous "theory". Hitler was obsessed with Bolshevism and the threat of communism.

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Miles Kenney-Lazar, "Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos" (U Hawai’i Press, 2025)
Q: What surprised you most during your research in Laos?
He notes surprising openness of villagers to discuss sensitive issues, the paradox that government permission could actually facilitate safer and more open conversations, and unexpected pathways through which bottom-up complaints influenced policy discussions.
Miles Kenney-Lazar, "Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos" (U Hawai’i Press, 2025)
Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?
Miles explains his background as a human geographer and political ecologist, and describes how his fieldwork in Laos—studying rubber and pulp-and-paper plantations and their impacts—drove him to develop a framework for understanding how land becomes socialized and contested.
Michael James Roberts et al., "Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing" (San Diego State UP, 2024)
Q: What is meant by amplification in the soul surfing era?
Amplification refers to how psychedelics intensify socialization, consciousness, and political sensibilities within surf culture, expanding their reach through media and transnational diffusion.
Michael James Roberts et al., "Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing" (San Diego State UP, 2024)
Q: How did the volume come together and why include both surfing and skateboarding?
The editors describe a conference origin and a move to include skateboarders to reflect a broader, intertwined politics of space, time, and labor across both sports.
Jennifer Randles, "Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood" (U California Press, 2026)
Q: Can you tell us more about diaper banks and how they work?
Diaper banks collect both in-kind and monetary donations and distribute diapers through community partners like clinics, schools, and universities; they can negotiate discounts and aim to scale, but they are labor-intensive and represent only a piece of the larger policy solution needed to ensure reliable access for all families.

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