Bilal Baloch on Indira Gandhi, India's Emergency, and the Importance of Ideas in Politics
We have core ideas that form a part of our worldview, but those core ideas are not fixed in the way in which we talk about rationality and interest in that they can evolve. And we have to, when we thi...
25 Jan 202245min
Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats
If I could say one thing to every citizen, it's to put country before party. Which is, you know, at this time it almost feels like a hollowed phrase, because we we've kind of heard it so often. But it...
18 Jan 202242min
Joseph Wright and Abel Escribà-Folch on Migration's Potential to Topple Dictatorships
This is money that flows between individuals and families and largely circumvents governments and that's a hugely important point, because the real take home of the book is that when these financial f...
11 Jan 202245min
Robert Lieberman, Kenneth Roberts, and David Bateman on Democratic Resilience and Political Polarization in the United States
So, the question is how do you respond to that? If you are the party that sees itself as being on the side of democracy and on the side of maintaining democratic norms and procedures and maintaining t...
4 Jan 202257min
Angus Deaton on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
It's this sort of persistent loss of wages, which causes things like loss of marriage, people not living with their kids anymore, disintegration of communities with all of the things in those communit...
28 Des 202146min
Zeynep Pamuk on the Role of Science and Expertise in a Democracy
Science is never offering the whole truth. It may be offering us something accurate. Scientific findings may be reliable for now, but they are always incomplete. Zeynep Pamuk A full transcript is ava...
21 Des 202152min
Caitlin Andrews-Lee on Charismatic Movements and Personalist Leaders
Charismatic leaders who are intent on governing solely using their charismatic authority and subverting other things to their personal power are inherently bad for democracy and inherently illiberal. ...
14 Des 202149min
Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman on Democratic Backsliding
The way we conceive of democracy is being challenged by these regimes and, by that I mean, because the process of backsliding is so incremental, it's difficult to see where these boundaries are. Steph...
7 Des 202144min
