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Episodes

Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

29 May 2025

54m

Samuel Western, "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (UP of Kansas)

28 May 2025

47m

Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

27 May 2025

30m

Helen Thompson on Disorder and the Analysis of Contemporary Geopolitics

26 May 2025

1h 16m

Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

25 May 2025

57m

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In this episode of the New Books Network, Morteza Hajizadeh interviews Professor Quentin Skinner about his book, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal." Skinner contrasts two understandings of liberty: liberty as absence of constraint and liberty as independence, delving into the histor...

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong" (Brixton Ink, 2025)

24 May 2025

44m

Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)

24 May 2025

54m

The Price of Free Speech: Politics and Power on Campus

23 May 2025

33m

Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)

22 May 2025

1h 14m

Lori Jo Marso, "Feminism and the Cinema of Experience" (Duke UP, 2024)

21 May 2025

50m

Nicholas Barry et al., "Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics" (Routledge, 2025)

20 May 2025

51m

Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)

16 May 2025

1h 13m

Lara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)

15 May 2025

1h 13m

What is environmental authoritarianism and why we should be mindful of its allure

14 May 2025

37m

Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

13 May 2025

57m

Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?

12 May 2025

46m

Threats to Universities and What We Can Do: A Conversation with Brandice Canes Wrone