William S. Smith on Irving Babbitt
This episode features William S. Smith, author of Democracy and Imperialism: Irving Babbitt and Warlike Democracies. Irving Babbitt is an underappreciated political theorist. He wrote the classic Demo...
26 Jul 20201h 6min
Takis Pappas on Populism and Liberal Democracy
Takis Pappas is the author of Populism and Liberal Democracy: A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis. We have an hour long conversation about populism, liberalism and democracy. The interview lays out...
19 Jul 20201h 10min
Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon on the End of American Hegemony
Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon are the authors of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order. We had a 90 minute conversation on some important topics for the study of internat...
14 Jul 20201h 23min
Luis Cabrera on International Human Rights
Luis Cabrera is the author of The Humble Cosmopolitan: Rights, Diversity, and Trans-state Democracy. He is Associate Professor in the Griffith Asia Institute and the School of Government and Internati...
8 Jul 202055min
Marlene Mauk on Citizen Support for Democracies... and Autocracies
Marlene Mauk is the author of Citizen Support for Democratic and Autocratic Regimes. Support for autocratic regimes is a neglected topic up until the last few years. We discuss why citizens support au...
28 Jun 202051min
Monologue on Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism
Episode 1: The inaugural episode explores Hannah Arendt's book The Origins of Totalitarianism. This is the only monologue in the series. Every other episode features a guest interview. It focuses on ...
21 Jun 202036min
