Episodes
A conversation with Alan S. Kahan about his recent book, "Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism" (Princeton UP).
Published 04/17/24
Published 04/17/24
A conversation with Jason Blakely about his recent book "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing).
Published 04/02/24
A conversation with Ines Valdez about her recent book Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (Cambridge UP).
Published 03/23/24
A conversation with Justin Dyer about his recent book, "The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding," from Cambridge University Press.
Published 03/06/24
A conversation with Lisa Herzog about her recent book "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP).
Published 02/21/24
A conversation with Kristi Sweet on her recent book "Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: the Territory of the Third Critique" (Cambridge UP).
Published 01/29/24
A conversation with Kevin J. Elliott about his recent book, "Democracy for Busy People" (U of Chicago Press).
Published 01/10/24
A conversation with Christopher Yeomans about his recent book, "The Politics of German Idealism" (Oxford UP) 
Published 12/20/23
A conversation with Melvin Rogers about his recent book "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African-American Political Thought" (Princeton UP).
Published 11/29/23
A conversation with Constantine Vassiliou about his recent book "Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Smith, Hume, and Ferguson" (Edinburgh University Press).
Published 11/17/23
A conversation with Stefan Eich about his recent book The Currency of Politics: the Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes (Princeton UP).
Published 11/07/23
A conversation with Kevin Vallier, All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP).
Published 10/25/23
A conversation with John Scott about his recent book, "Rousseau's God: Theology, Religion, and the Natural Goodness of Man" (U of Chicago Press).
Published 10/04/23
A conversation with Yascha Mounk about his new book, "The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time" (Penguin Random House).
Published 09/24/23
A conversation with Haig Patapan about his recent book, A Dangerous Passion: Leadership and the Question of Honor (SUNY Press).
Published 09/13/23
A conversation with Philip Pettit about his new book "The State" (Princeton UP).
Published 08/29/23
A conversation with Melissa Lane about her new book "Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political" (Princeton UP).
Published 08/22/23
A conversation with Donovan Miyasaki about his recent two-volume project, Nietzsche's Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy (Palgrave) and Politics after Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left (Palgrave).
Published 08/16/23
A conversation with David James about his recent book "Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy" (Cambridge UP).
Published 08/01/23
A conversation with Ewa Atanassow about her recent book, "Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization" (Princeton UP).
Published 07/20/23
A conversation with Thomas Pangle about his recent book "The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker" (Cornell UP).
Published 06/27/23
A conversation with Laurence Cooper about his recent book, "Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom: Rousseau's Philosophic Life" (U of Chicago Press).
Published 06/26/23
A conversation with Jeanne Morefield about her recent book, "Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory" (Rowman & Littlefield).
Published 06/09/23
A conversation with Mathias Thaler about his recent book "No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World" (Cambridge UP).
Published 05/16/23