politics

#1068 Kristen Ghodsee: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

Mar 7, 2025

Dr. Kristen Ghodsee is an award-winning author and professor and chair of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as a member on the graduate groups of Anthropology and Comparative Literature. Dr. Ghodsee’s articles and essays have been translated into over twenty-five languages and have appeared in publications such as Dissent, Foreign Affairs, Jacobin, The Baffler, The New Republic, Quartz, NBC Think, The Lancet, Project Syndicate, Le Monde Diplomatique, Die Tageszeitung, The Washington Post, and the New York Times. She is the author of 12 books, including Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence. More»
#1060 João Cancela: Atitudes Políticas, Confiança nas Instituições e Populismo em Portugal

Feb 17, 2025

THIS INTERVIEW IS IN PORTUGUESE. More»
#1056 Elena Ziliotti - Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory

Feb 7, 2025

Dr. Elena Ziliotti is an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Delft University of Technology. She works on Comparative political theory, focusing on debates in contemporary Confucian and Western political theory. She is the author of Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory. More»
#1037 John Hibbing: The Left, The Right, and the Biology of Political Differences

Dec 26, 2024

Dr. John Hibbing is the Foundation Regents University professor of political science and psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, a NATO Fellow in Science, and a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the author of Predisposed: The Left, The Right, and the Biology of Political Differences. More»
#1025 Katie Rose Hejtmanek - Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong As Feminist

Nov 28, 2024

Dr. Katie Rose Hejtmanek is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Children and Youth Studies Program at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Her current research examines sports practices and social change. Her teaching includes courses on the anthropology of sport, and gender and sexuality at New York University and Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA. She is a three-time competitor at IPF World Masters Powerlifting Championships and is a Trauma-Informed Weightlifting-certified strength coach. She is co-editor of Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong As Feminist. More»
#1024 Matthew McManus: The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism

Nov 25, 2024

Dr. Matthew McManus is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is the author of books like The Emergence of Postmodernity, The Political Right and Equality, and The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism. More»
#1021 Richard Wolff (@RichardDWolff): Socialism, Marxism, and Trump's Second Term

Nov 18, 2024

Dr. Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He is also the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. Over the last 25 years, in collaboration with his colleague, Stephen Resnick, he has developed a new approach to political economy. While it retains and systematically elaborates the Marxist notion of class as surplus labor, it rejects the economic determinism typical of most schools of economics and usually associated with Marxism as well. More»
#1018 Brian Leiter & Jaime Edwards: The Life and Ideas of Marx

Nov 11, 2024

Dr. Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values. His teaching and research interests are in moral, political, and legal philosophy, in both the Anglophone and Continental European traditions, and the law of evidence. More»
#997 Sheri Berman: The History of the Left, Social Democracy, and Right-Wing Populism

Sep 23, 2024

Dr. Sheri Berman is a Professor of Political Science at Barnard College at Columbia University. Her research interests include European history and politics; the development of democracy; populism and fascism; and the history of the left. She has written about these topics for a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly publications, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and VOX. She is the author of several books, including Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancient Regime to the Present Day. More»
#992 Jerald Mosley - Sex Workers and Their Clients: In Their Own Words

Sep 12, 2024

Dr. Jerald Mosley is a former California Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and he has been researching, writing and speaking on law and sex work. He is the author of Sex Workers and Their Clients: In Their Own Words. More»