A conversation with Yascha Mounk, a professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, about his new book, “The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time” (Penguin Random House). The Identity Trap covers the push for social justice and newfound cultural identity in the West from a new […]
Philip Pettit – The State
A conversation with Philip Pettit, a Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, on his new book “The State” (Princeton UP, 2023). Pettit has published several important works within the world of moral and political philosophy such as “On the People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of […]
Liberal Freedom: Author Interview with Eric MacGilvray
Eric MacGilvray (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy. His research and teaching interests center in modern and contemporary political thought, with an emphasis on liberal, republican, and democratic theory and the pragmatic philosophical tradition. He is the author of Liberal Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Invention of Market Freedom (Cambridge University Press, […]
The Politics of Beauty: Author Interview with Susan Shell
Susan Shell is Professor of Political Science at the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College. Shell joins the podcast to discuss her new book, The Politics of Beauty: A Study of Kant’s Critique of Taste, from Cambridge University Press. Listen below as Shell discusses the way that Kant’s “critical treatment of aesthetic […]
A Nation So Conceived: Author Interview with Michael Zuckert
Michael Zuckert is the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Zuckert joins the podcast to discuss his new book, A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty, from the University Press of Kansas. The book considers a “coherent center to Lincoln’s political ideology” of democratic […]
