New Books in Political Science
Episodes
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cancel culture is something all academics are aware of and some are concerned about. Certainly that’s true of Greg Lukianoff who was the co-autho...
Gerard McCarthy, "Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar" (Cornell UP, 2023)
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In late 2015 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led Myanmar’s National League for Democracy to a smashing general election victory. In one of her first public app...
Paolo Sandro, "The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This book is a tour de force. In The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law (Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr Paolo Sandro e...
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” is notoriously fiery. No doubt part of what’s gripping about it is ...
Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States. From the clim...
Woodrow Wilson: Patrick Weil’s "The Madman in the White House"
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Patrick Weil, author of The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, ...
Cheryl Lawther and Luke Moffett, "Research Handbook on Transitional Justice" (Edward Elgar, 2023)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this engaging interview with Cheryl Lawther, who talks about why the Research Handbook on Transitional Justice (Edward Elgar, 2023) is on...
On Wars: A Discussion with Michael Mann
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Irrationality rules” in war, Michael Mann writes in his magisterial 2023 book, On Wars (Yale UP, 2023), a history that begins with the Roman R...
Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? How do we understand anti-Asian racism in relation to structural anti-Blackness? Are Asian Am...
Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)
28 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual st...
Luke Moffett, "Reparations and War: Finding Balance in Repairing the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For thousands of years, reparations have been used to secure the end of war and to alleviate its deleterious consequences. While human rights law esta...
Nicole Nguyen, "Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rather than functioning as a final arbiter of justice, U.S. domestic courts are increasingly seen as counterterrorism tools that can incapacitate terr...
Itamar Rabinovich, "Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs and the Region" (Brookings Institution Press, 2023)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Navigating through the intricate web of Middle Eastern geopolitics, few are better equipped to provide insights than Itamar Rabinovich in his compelli...
Scott Kamen, "From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was perhaps the most influential multi-issue organization in American liberalism. The first book-le...
Jeff Kosseff, "Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to the First Amendment, Americans enjoy a rare privilege: the constitutional right to lie. And although controversial, they should continue to ...
From the Invention of the Passport to the Golden Passport
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Kristin Surak, professor at the London School of Economics, about her n...
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The American public’s confidence in the United States Supreme Court is a historic low – in part based on a belief that the Supreme Court is incr...
Sparta, Athens, Ukraine, Israel: A Conversation with Paul Rahe on Proxy Wars
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Proxy wars like those in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine have played major roles in military history. Historian Paul Rahe takes us back to one o...
Kevin Passmore, "Fascism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology...
Jason C. Bivins, "Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
21 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of ...
Allison M. Prasch, "The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Allison M. Prasch, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a new book that focuses on the w...
The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has long been associated with a very harsh criminal justice system with, in some cases, people serving long sentence for minor crime...
Vikram Visana, "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Uncivil liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji's Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Vikram V...
Philipp Stelzel, "The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics" (Indiana UP, 2023)
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The life of a scholar is stressful. The best way to muddle through is with a stiff drink. Balancing teaching, research, and service more than merits a...
Michael A. Robinson, "Dangerous Instrument: Political Polarization and US Civil-Military Relations" (Oxford UP, 2022)
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As increasingly contentious politics in the United States raise concerns over the "politicization" of traditionally non-partisan institutions, many ha...
Javier Garcia Oliva and Helen Hall, "Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights: Insights from Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights: Insights from Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia (University of Toronto Press, 2023), Dr. Javier G...
Tom Gallagher, "Europe's Leadership Famine: Portraits of Defiance and Decay 1950-2022" (Scotview, 2023)
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Tom Gallagher about his new book Europe's Leadership Famine: Portraits of Defiance and Decay 1950-2022 (Scotview, 2023). Represe...
Christopher John Bosso, "Why SNAP Works: A Political History--And Defense--of the Food Stamp Program" (U California Press, 2023)
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How did the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program evolve from a Depression-era effort to use up surplus goods into America's foundational food ass...
Jana Randow and Alessandro Speciale, "Mario Draghi, the Craftsman: The True Story of the Man Who Saved the Euro" (Rizzoli, 2019)
14 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Within our mandate, the [European Central Bank] is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough". With tho...
Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, "Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party" (Columbia UP, 2023)
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace. Unions fostered tight-knit communities, touching nea...
Dennis C. Rasmussen, "The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Rasmussen’s new book, The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter (UP of Kansas, 2023), is a p...
Making Sense of the 2023 Spanish Election
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What were the key factors shaping the 2023 Spanish general election? How did the progressive government of Pedro Sánchez defy expectations and secure...
The History of Liberalism: A Conversation with Alan Kahan ‘80
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is liberalism, and what thinkers shaped it? Does it take a stance on moral and religious issues? What is its relationship with nationalism and po...
Gültan Kışanak, "The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison" (Pluto Press, 2022)
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison (Pluto Press, 2022) is a one-of-a-kind collection of prison writings from m...
Resentment: The Complexity of an Emotion and its Effect on Politics
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Rob Schneider, Professor of History at Indiana University-Bloomington, ...
Aurelian Craiutu, "Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingl...
John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system In Expelling Public Schools, John Arena explores t...
The Future of Superstates: A Discussion with Alasdair Roberts
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Empires are supposed to be a thing of the past but very big countries with global reach are becoming more entrenched. By 2050, almost 40 per cent o...
Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Republic Will Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression (University of Illinois Press, 2023) by Dr. Tariq D. Khan e...
Benoît Challand, "Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Providing a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in the Arab Middle Ea...
Swati Srivastava, "Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The idea of “hybrid sovereignty” describes overlapping relations between public and private actors in important areas of global power, such as con...
Stephenie Foster and Susan A. Markham, "Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice" (Routledge, 2023)
07 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, Sweden announced the world’s first “feminist foreign policy,” an approach more than two dozen other nations have since adopted. But dif...
India, Asia, and the Global South
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand the emergence of the Global South as a political actor? What is the role of India within this framework? Which challenges and...
Melissa Estes Blair, "Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century (U Georgia Press, 2023), Melissa Es...
Nicholas Tampio, "Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Tampio, a political theorist at Fordham University, has a new book that focuses on teaching political theory. For many of us who teach politi...
Albert Welter, "The Future of China's Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China's Rise" (SUNY Press, 2023)
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Albert Welter's book The Future of China's Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China's Rise (SUNY Press, 2023) examines how China's traditional cult...
The Future of the EAST: A Discussion of Yasheng Huang
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Exams, autocracy, stability, and technology have been hallmarks of Chinese society for centuries — from ancient times through to the present. Is tha...
Should We Be Optimistic About Global Governance?
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviewed Richard Gowan, UN director of the International Crisis Group. Gowan discusse...
Emily McTernan, "On Taking Offence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of work in moral, political, and legal theory aims to define the offensive. Surprisingly, relatively little attention has been paid to the affe...
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Aaron Tang about his new book Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It (Yale UP, 2023)....
Aparna Chandra, "Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India" (India Viking, 2023)
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Indian Supreme Court was established nearly seventy-five years ago as a core part of India's constitutional project. Does the Court live up to the...
Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Moving from the aftermath of Reconstruction through the AIDS crisis, a new cultural history of the United States shows how artists, intellectuals, and...
Gwendolyn Sasse, "Russia's War Against Ukraine" (Polity, 2023)
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nineteen months since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the books are coming thick and fast. Fortunately, each tells a different and compell...
Sarah Sunn Bush and Lauren Prather, "Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, a...
Alex J. Bellamy, "Warmonger: Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"War was always central to Putin's project," writes Alex J. Bellamy in Warmonger: Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars (Agenda, 2023). Not just the second...
Naveeda Khan, "In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South" (Fordham UP, 2023)
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Based on the author’s eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Cl...
The Civic Bargain: A Conversation with Josiah Ober on Ancients and Moderns
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amidst increasing acrimony and political strain, many worry that democratic governance has an expiration date. To answer these concerns, Josiah Ober l...
Laura F. Edwards, "The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South" (UNC Press, 2009)
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do individuals have the right to “keep and bear” arms? Do “the people” have any collective rights to public safety? Now that the United States...
The Future of Ukraine: A Discussion with Christopher Miller
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has already changed the world. Why did it happen? Who is winning? How will it end? Christopher Miller is the author of...
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Was the use of violence on January 6th Capitol attacks legitimate? Is the use of violence morally justified by members of Extinction Rebellion or Jus...
Iqra Shagufta Cheema, ed., "The Other #MeToos" (Oxford UP, 2023)
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Asia to Africa to the Middle East, #MeToo has inspired local movements and hashtag trends like #AnaKaman and transnational collective hashtags li...
Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities? And how are they used strategically to fu...
Kerry Brown, "China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we talk about China? It’s a question every analyst, academic, policymaker, and reporter probably needs to ask themselves. Is China, as some o...
Kevin Funk, "Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries" (Indiana UP, 2022)
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Triumphant capitalism has in our time engendered a new global class that lives and works in a borderless world, beyond the reach of national politics ...
David B. Wong, "Moral Relativism and Pluralism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to David B. Wong about his book Moral Relativism and Pluralism (Cambridge UP, 2023). The argument for metaethical relativism--the vie...
Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, nearly two-thirds of domestic violence homicides in the United States were committed with a gun. On average, three women are killed by a curr...
Ian Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? In We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empi...
The Future of Anarchism: A Discussion with Ruth Kinna
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
50 years ago, anarchism was written off by some as a set of outdated idealistic ideas that had no contemporary relevance. Then came protests at events...
Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of the day, I have faith in the wisdom of democracy: the idea that good political solutions only arise from widely dispersed discussion, de...
Coups and the Threat of “Feel Good” Militarism in Africa
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why are we seeing a rise in coups in Africa and growing debate about the possible benefits of military rule? What are the roots of “feel good” mil...
Christopher Paul Harris, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care" (Princeton UP, 2023)
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, t...
Emilee Booth Chapman, "Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emilee Booth Chapman, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, has a new book that examines the idea of the vote, and what thi...
Anthony B. Sanders, "Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listing every right that a constitution should protect is hard. American constitution drafters often list a few famous rights such as freedom of speec...
The Shadow War between America and Russia
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Western analysts and media often assess the prospect that Moscow might use nuclear weapons as the war in Ukraine grinds on, possibly to a flailing Rus...
Matthew McManus, "The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity" (Routledge, 2023)
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
McManus presents an intellectual history of the conservative and reactionary tradition, stretching from Aristotle and Filmer to Alexander Dugin and Pa...
A Better Way to Buy Books
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...
Religion and Politics in the Lord of the Rings
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork The Lord of the Rings delighted so many of us as children, yet it and its vast body of accompanying work, such as the S...
William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project: ...
Inequality as a Leading Cross-Cutting Development Issue: Indonesia and Beyond
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Inequality has always been key to understanding Indonesia’s development. But this is a multidimensional issue, and one that has manifested in vastly...
India, a Non-Aligned Member of the International System?
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off our Fall 2023 season of International Horizons with Upendra Choudhury from Aligarh Muslim University discussing the role of India in the c...
Vincent W. Lloyd, "Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination" (Yale UP, 2022)
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This radical work by one of the leading young scholars of Black thought delineates a new concept of Black dignity, yet one with a long history in Blac...
Andrea Muehlebach, "A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe" (Duke UP, 2023)
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe (Duke University Press, 2023)) Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as ...
The Future of the NHS: A Discussion with Gavin Francis
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are r...
Bryan Pitts, "Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship" (U California Press, 2023)
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Pitts' book Until the Storm Passes: Politicians, Democracy, and the Demise of Brazil's Military Dictatorship (U California Press, 2023) revea...
Amy H. Liu and Jacob I. Ricks, "Ethnicity and Politics in Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What explains the varying treatment of ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia? Why have some states in the region been far more successful than others in...
Who’s Afraid of the Catholic Integralists? (with Kevin Vallier)
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Vallier is a philosophy professor and author of All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP, 202...
Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Coleman, an historian at Texas State University, is the author of an important and topical book about immigration policy in the United States. ...
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the US Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, “it makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly ...
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In my talk with Barry Gewen on his 2020 book, The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World (W. W. Norton, 2020), we explore the disp...
How Should Protestants Engage With Natural Law Theory?
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Natural law theory is known to be more emphasized among Catholics than Protestants. Why is that the case, and should it be? Do Protestants need to foc...
David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thy Power, O Liberty, make strong the weak, And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak. At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley published the first book i...
Peter Heather and John Rapley, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West" (Yale UP, 2023)
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, around the start of the new millennium, history took a dramatic turn. Faced...
Samson A. Bezabeh, "Djibouti: A Political History" (Lynne Rienner, 2023)
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wedged between Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, at the intersection of the world’s busiest shipping routes, Djibouti has long been a global geostrate...
Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, "Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. In Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader ...
Alice Wilson, "Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman" (Stanford UP, 2023)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Dhufar Revolution was fought between 1965–1976, in an attempt to depose Oman's British-backed Sultan and advance social ideals of egalitarianism...
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare...
Marisa Holmes, "Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wal...
Indrajit Roy, "Passionate Politics: Democracy, Development and India’s 2019 General Election" (Manchester UP, 2023)
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2019, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the world's largest election. Indrajit Roy edited volume Passionate Politics: Democracy, Develo...
Smita A. Rahman et al., "Globalizing Political Theory" (Routledge, 2022)
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Three political theorists, Smita A. Rahman (DePauw University), Katherine A. Gordy (San Francisco State University), and Shirin S. Deylami (Western Wa...
Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack. With declining enrollment and diminished trust in pub...