The Political Theory Review

Episode 204: Natalia Alexander - Growing People: the Enduring Legacy of John Dewey

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:32:20 +0000

A conversation with Natalia R. Alexander about her recent book, "Growing People: the Enduring Legacy of John Dewey" (Columbia UP).

Episode 203: Allison Merrick - Nietzsche on the Methods and Aims of Philosophy

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:29:18 +0000

A conversation with Allison Merrick about her recent book, "Nietzsche on the Methods and Aims of Philosophy" (Cambridge UP)

Episode 202: Tejas Parasher - Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:08:21 +0000

A conversation with Tejas Parasher about his recent book "Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 201: Ryan Reed and Christopher Hallenbrook - Justice Across Generations

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:47:46 +0000

A conversation with Ryan Reed and Christopher Hallenbrook about their recent book, "Justice Across Generations: Equality, Opportunity, and the Social Contract" (Palgrave Macmillan).

Episode 200: Colin Bird, Jeffrey Church, and Nicholas Tampio - How to Teach Political Theory

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:59:08 +0000

A 200th episode special-- Colin Bird, Jeffrey Church, and Nicholas Tampio discuss how to teach the introduction to Political Theory course, with reference to their textbooks:

Colin Bird, An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Cambridge UP)
Jeffrey Church, Introduction to Political Theory (Sage/CQ Press)
Nicholas Tampio, Teaching Political Theory (Edward Elgar Press)

Episode 199: Michael Illuzzi - Mending the Nation

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:05:21 +0000

A conversation with Michael Illuzzi about his recent book, "Mending the Nation: Reclaiming We the People in a Populist Age" (U Kansas Press).

Episode 198: Shuk Ying Chan - Postcolonial Global Justice

Jeffrey Church — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:01:08 +0000

A conversation with Shuk Ying Chan about her recent book, "Postcolonial Global Justice" (Princeton UP).

Episode 197: Matthew Benjamin Cole - Fear the Future

Jeffrey Church — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:49:51 +0000

A conversation with Matthew Benjamin Cole about his recent book, "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" (University of Michigan Press).

Episode 196: Michael Lazarus - Absolute Ethical Life

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:48:28 +0000

A conversation with Michael Lazarus about his recent book, "Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel, and Marx" (Stanford University Press).

Episode 195: Laura K. Field - Furious Minds

Jeffrey Church — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:44:50 +0000

A conversation with Laura K. Field about her recent book, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princeton UP).

Episode 194: David Wiens - From the Best to the Rest

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:08:29 +0000

A conversation with David Wiens about his recent book, "From the Best to the Rest: Idealistic Thinking in a Non-Ideal World" (Oxford UP).

Episode 193: Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande - The Politics of Islamic Ethics

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:00:04 +0000

A conversation with Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande about her recent book, "The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 192: John McCormick - The People's Princes

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:43:22 +0000

A conversation with John McCormick about his recent book, "The People's Princes: Machiavelli, Leadership, and Liberty" (U of Chicago Press).

Episode 191: John Harpham - The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:54:14 +0000

A conversation with John Harpham about his recent book, "The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP).

Episode 190: Alex Zakaras - Freedom for All

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:16:58 +0000

A conversation with Alex Zakaras about his recent book "Freedom for All: What a Liberal Society Could Be" (Yale UP).

Episode 189: Roxanne Euben - Driven to Their Knees

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:17:25 +0000

A conversation with Roxanne Euben about her recent book, "Driven to their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics" (Princeton UP).

Episode 188: Lisa Herzog - The Democratic Marketplace

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:11:12 +0000

A conversation with Lisa Herzog about her recent book "The Democratic Marketplace: How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals" (Harvard UP).

Episode 187: Douglas Moggach - Freedom and Perfection

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:46:14 +0000

A conversation with Douglas Moggach about his recent book "Freedom and Perfection: German Political Thought from Leibniz to Marx" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 186: William Galston - Anger, Fear, Domination

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:11:14 +0000

A conversation with William Galston about his recent book, "Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech" (Yale UP).

Episode 185: Cass Sunstein - On Liberalism

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:36:59 +0000

A conversation with Cass Sunstein about his recent book "On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom" (MIT Press).

Episode 184: John Christman - Reconceiving Freedom from the Shadows of Slavery

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:13:56 +0000

A conversation with John Christman about his recent book, "Reconceiving Liberty from the Shadows of Slavery: Liberty in a Nonideal World" (Cambridge UP)

Episode 183: Linda Zerilli - A Democratic Theory of Truth

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:03:51 +0000

A conversation with Linda Zerilli about her recent book, "A Democratic Theory of Truth" (U of Chicago Press).

Episode 182: Alyssa Battistoni - Free Gifts

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:54:07 +0000

A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about her recent book, "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" (Princeton UP)

Episode 181: Amit Ron and Abraham Singer - Everyone's Business

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:56:33 +0000

A conversation with Amit Ron and Abraham Singer about their recent book, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press).

Episode 180: Robert Gooding-Williams - Democracy and Beauty

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:46:59 +0000

A conversation with Robert Gooding-Williams about his recent book, "Democracy and Beauty: the Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. DuBois" (Columbia UP).

Episode 179: Natasha Piano - Democratic Elitism

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:08:10 +0000

A conversation with Natasha Piano about her recent book, "Democratic Elitism: the Founding Myth of American Political Science" (Harvard UP).

Episode 178: Agustina Paglayan - Raised to Obey

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 20 May 2025 21:17:04 +0000

A conversation with Agustina Paglayan about her recent book, "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (Princeton UP)

Episode 177: Ryan Balot - Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 16 May 2025 17:50:55 +0000

A conversation with Ryan Balot about his recent book, "Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws" (Oxford UP).

Episode 176: Michael Fuerstein - Experiments in Living Together

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:15:13 +0000

A conversation with Michael Fuerstein about his recent book, "Experiments in Living Together: How Democracy Drives Social Progress" (Oxford UP).

Episode 175: Laurie M. Johnson - The Gap in God''s Country

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:42:24 +0000

A conversation with Laurie M. Johnson about her recent book, "The Gap in God's Country: A Longer View on Our Culture Wars" (Wipf & Stock).

Episode 174: Leah Downey - Our Money

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:52:56 +0000

A conversation with Leah Downey about her recent book "Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP).

Episode 173: Kevin Pham - The Architects of Dignity

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:16:36 +0000

A conversation with Kevin Pham about his recent book, "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization" (Oxford UP).

Episode 172: Ali Aslam, David McIvor, and Joel Schlosser - Earthborn Democracy

Jeffrey Church — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:27:51 +0000

A conversation with Ali Aslam, David McIvor, and Joel Schlosser about their recent book, "Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life" (Columbia University Press).

Episode 171: Anna Marisa Schoen - Nations before the Nation-State

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:15:49 +0000

A conversation with Anna Marisa Schoen about her recent book, "Nations before the Nation-State: Between City-State and Empire from Antiquity to the Present" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 170: Vanessa Wills - Marx's Ethical Vision

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:41:01 +0000

A conversation with Vanessa Wills about her recent book, Marx's Ethical Vision (Oxford UP).

Episode 169: Alasia Nuti - Politicizing Political Liberalism

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:20:31 +0000

A conversation with Alasia Nuti about her recent co-authored book, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: on the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP).

Episode 168: Espen Hammer - After the Death of God

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:54:25 +0000

A conversation with Espen Hammer about his forthcoming book "After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche" (U of Chicago Press).

Episode 167: Mary Nichols - Aristotle's Discovery of the Human

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:52:04 +0000

A conversation with Mary Nichols about her recent book, "Aristotle's Discovery of the Human: Piety and Politics in the Nicomachean Ethics" (Notre Dame UP).

Episode 166: Nancy Rosenblum - Ungoverning

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:56:54 +0000

A conversation with Nancy Rosenblum about her recent book "Ungoverning: the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos" (Princeton UP).

Episode 165: Fabienne Peter - The Grounds of Political Legitimacy

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 04:35:34 +0000

A conversation with Fabienne Peter about her recent book, "The Grounds of Political Legitimacy" (Oxford UP).

Episode 164: Stephen Darwall - The Heart and Its Attitudes

Jeffrey Church — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 23:22:12 +0000

A conversation with Stephen Darwall about his recent book "The Heart and Its Attitudes" (Oxford UP).

Episode 163: Alexandre Lefebvre - Liberalism as a Way of Life

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:21:47 +0000

A conversation with Alexandre Lefebvre about his recent book, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP).

Episode 162: Jordan Cash - The Isolated Presidency

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:48:23 +0000

A conversation with Jordan Cash about his recent book, "The Isolated Presidency" (Oxford UP).

Episode 161: Nazmul Sultan - Waiting for the People

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:54:44 +0000

A conversation with Nazmul Sultan about his recent book "Waiting for the People: the Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought" (Harvard UP).

Episode 160: David Lay Williams - The Greatest of All Plagues

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:00:09 +0000

A conversation with David Lay Williams about his recent book, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton University Press).

Episode 159: Aurelian Craiutu - Why Not Moderation?

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:32:09 +0000

A conversation with Aurelian Craiutu about his recent book, "Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 158: Benjamin Schupmann - Democracy Despite Itself

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:28:43 +0000

A conversation with Benjamin Schupmann about his recent book, "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" (Oxford UP).

Episode 157: Isaac Nakhimovsky - The Holy Alliance

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:31:55 +0000

A conversation with Isaac Nakhimovsky about his recent book "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP).

Episode 156: Genevieve Rousseliere - Sharing Freedom

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:46:49 +0000

A conversation with Genevieve Rousseliere about her recent book, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 155: Samuel Bagg - The Dispersion of Power

Jeffrey Church — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:00:53 +0000

A conversation with Samuel Bagg about his recent book "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP).

Episode 154: Aaron Alexander Zubia - The Political Thought of David Hume

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:35:19 +0000

A conversation with Aaron Alexander Zubia about his recent book, "The Political Thought of David Hume: the Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination" (Notre Dame Press).

Episode 153: Jeff Spinner-Halev - Respect and Loathing in American Democracy

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:00:06 +0000

A conversation with Jeff Spinner-Halev about his recent book, "Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality" (U of Chicago Press, co-authored with Elizabeth Theiss-Morse)

Episode 152: Robert Pippin - The Culmination

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:54:36 +0000

A conversation with Robert Pippin about his recent book "The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy" (U Chicago Press).

Episode 151: Gianna Englert - Democracy Tamed

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:06:16 +0000

A conversation with Gianna Englert about her recent book, "Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage" (Oxford UP).

Episode 150: Frank Lovett - The Well-Ordered Republic

Jeffrey Church — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:02:57 +0000

A conversation with Frank Lovett about his new book "The Well-Ordered Republic" (Oxford UP).

Episode 149: Richard Bourke - Hegel's World Revolutions

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 24 May 2024 18:17:20 +0000

A conversation with Richard Bourke about his recent book "Hegel's World Revolutions" (Princeton University Press).

Episode 148: Richard Tuck - Active and Passive Citizens

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 16 May 2024 11:33:38 +0000

A conversation with Richard Tuck about his recent book "Active and Passive Citizens: A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy" (Princeton UP).

Episode 147: Laura Valentini - Morality and Socially Constructed Norms

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 10 May 2024 01:15:38 +0000

A conversation with Laura Valentini about her recent book, "Morality and Socially Constructed Norms" (Oxford UP).

Episode 146: Alan S. Kahan - Freedom from Fear

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:29:51 +0000

A conversation with Alan S. Kahan about his recent book, "Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism" (Princeton UP).

Episode 145: Jason Blakely - Lost in Ideology

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:57:59 +0000

A conversation with Jason Blakely about his recent book "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing).

Episode 144: Ines Valdez - Democracy and Empire

Jeffrey Church — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:52:03 +0000

A conversation with Ines Valdez about her recent book Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (Cambridge UP).

Episode 143: Justin Dyer - The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:33:35 +0000

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.

Episode 142: Lisa Herzog - Citizen Knowledge

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:28:02 +0000

A conversation with Lisa Herzog about her recent book "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP).

Episode 141: Kristi Sweet - Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment

Jeffrey Church — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:26:45 +0000

A conversation with Kristi Sweet on her recent book "Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: the Territory of the Third Critique" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 140: Kevin Elliott - Democracy for Busy People

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:55:09 +0000

A conversation with Kevin J. Elliott about his recent book, "Democracy for Busy People" (U of Chicago Press).

Episode 139: Christopher Yeomans - The Politics of German Idealism

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 01:55:28 +0000

A conversation with Christopher Yeomans about his recent book, "The Politics of German Idealism" (Oxford UP)

Episode 138: Melvin Rogers - The Darkened Light of Faith

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 01:12:57 +0000

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).

Episode 137: Constantine Vassiliou - Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 19:00:41 +0000

A conversation with Constantine Vassiliou about his recent book "Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Smith, Hume, and Ferguson" (Edinburgh University Press).

Episode 136: Stefan Eich - The Currency of Politics

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 12:54:04 +0000

A conversation with Stefan Eich about his recent book The Currency of Politics: the Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes (Princeton UP).

Episode 135: Kevin Vallier - All the Kingdoms of the World

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:37:59 +0000

A conversation with Kevin Vallier, All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP).

Episode 134: John Scott - Rousseau's God

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 01:51:14 +0000

A conversation with John Scott about his recent book, "Rousseau's God: Theology, Religion, and the Natural Goodness of Man" (U of Chicago Press).

Episode 133: Yascha Mounk - The Identity Trap

Jeffrey Church — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:13:05 +0000

A conversation with Yascha Mounk about his new book, "The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time" (Penguin Random House).

Episode 132: Haig Patapan - A Dangerous Passion

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 02:40:44 +0000

A conversation with Haig Patapan about his recent book, A Dangerous Passion: Leadership and the Question of Honor (SUNY Press).

Episode 131: Philip Pettit - The State

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 19:12:38 +0000

A conversation with Philip Pettit about his new book "The State" (Princeton UP).

Episode 130: Melissa Lane - Of Rule and Office

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:18:40 +0000

A conversation with Melissa Lane about her new book "Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political" (Princeton UP).

Episode 129: Donovan Miyasaki - Nietzsche's Immoralism and Politics after Morality

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:00:54 +0000

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).

Episode 128: David James - Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 18:36:43 +0000

A conversation with David James about his recent book "Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 127: Ewa Atanassow - Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:12:51 +0000

A conversation with Ewa Atanassow about her recent book, "Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization" (Princeton UP).

Episode 126: Thomas Pangle - The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 16:47:05 +0000

A conversation with Thomas Pangle about his recent book "The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker" (Cornell UP).

Episode 125: Laurence Cooper - Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom

Jeffrey Church — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:08:09 +0000

A conversation with Laurence Cooper about his recent book, "Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom: Rousseau's Philosophic Life" (U of Chicago Press).

Episode 124: Jeanne Morefield - Unsettling the World

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 01:33:02 +0000

A conversation with Jeanne Morefield about her recent book, "Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory" (Rowman & Littlefield).

Episode 123: Mathias Thaler - No Other Planet

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:27:38 +0000

A conversation with Mathias Thaler about his recent book "No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 122: Eric MacGilvray - Liberal Freedom

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 20:19:54 +0000

A conversation with Eric MacGilvray about his recent book "Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 121: Richard Velkley - Sarastro's Cave

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 01:24:17 +0000

A conversation with Richard Velkley about his recent book, Sarastro's Cave: Letters from the Recent Past (Mercer UP).

Episode 120: Frederick Neuhouser - Diagnosing Social Pathology

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 01:57:02 +0000

A conversation with Frederick Neuhouser about his recent book "Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim" (Cambridge University Press).

Episode 119: Rebecca Kingston - Plutarch's Prism

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 12:39:40 +0000

A conversation with Rebecca Kingston about her recent book "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500-1800" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 118: Michael Walzer - A Struggle for a Decent Politics

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 12:32:29 +0000

A conversation with Michael Walzer about his recent book, "A Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' as an Adjective" (Yale University Press).

Episode 117: Nicholas Tampio - Teaching Political Theory

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 14:18:54 +0000

A conversation with Nicholas Tampio about his recent book Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach (Edward Elgar).

Episode 116: Charles Zug - Demagogues in American Politics

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:52:09 +0000

A conversation with Charles Zug about his recent book "Demagogues in American Politics" (Oxford UP).

Episode 115: Susan Shell - The Politics of Beauty

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:36:32 +0000

A conversation with Susan Shell about her recent book "The Politics of Beauty: A Study of Kant's Critique of Taste" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 114: Michael Zuckert - A Nation So Conceived

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:24:42 +0000

A conversation with Michael Zuckert about his recent book, "A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty" (Kansas UP).

Episode 113: Christopher Beem - The Seven Democratic Virtues

Jeffrey Church — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:59:21 +0000

A conversation with Christopher Beem about his recent book, The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy (Penn State University Press).

Episode 112: Jeffrey Church - Kant, Liberalism, and the Meaning of Life

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:53:44 +0000

A conversation with Jeffrey Church about his recent book, "Kant, Liberalism, and the Meaning of Life" (Oxford UP).

Episode 111: Ben Jones - Apocalypse without God

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 18:30:22 +0000

A conversation with Ben Jones about his recent book, "Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope" (Cambridge UP).

Episode 110: Emma Saunders-Hastings, "Private Virtues, Public Vices"

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 12:58:47 +0000

A conversation with Emma Saunders-Hastings about her recent book, "Private Virtues, Public Vices: Philanthropy and Democratic Equality" (U of Chicago Press).

Episode 109: Lee Ward - Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 12:03:39 +0000

A conversation with Lee Ward about his recent book, "Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy: Natural Rights and the Harmony of Interests" (Edinburgh UP).

Episode 108: Mary Keys - Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine's City of God

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 17:49:22 +0000

A conversation with Mary Keys about her recent book "Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine's City of God" (Cambridge UP)

Episode 107: Guido Parietti - On the Concept of Power

Jeffrey Church — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 11:58:37 +0000

A conversation with Guido Parietti about his recent book "On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics" (Oxford University Press).

Episode 106: Rob Goodman - Words on Fire

Jeffrey Church — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 14:48:46 +0000

A conversation with Rob Goodman about his recent book Words on Fire: On Eloquence and Its Conditions (Cambridge University Press).

Episode 105: Terry Pinkard - Practice, Power, and Forms of Life

Jeffrey Church — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:55:36 +0000

A conversation with Terry Pinkard about his recent book, "Practice, Power, and Forms of Life: Sartre's Appropriation of Hegel and Marx" (U of Chicago Press 2022).