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The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915
October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 10 minWhen American fascists suddenly goose-stepped down Main Street in the 1930s, fascism was seen by the rest of the country as a terrifying and radical new European import. It was not. It didn’t come from abroad. Nor was it new or radical…
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Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory with Heather Berg (Duke UP, 2026)
October 7, 2026 · 55 min“If whores were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free” (ix). Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory (Duke UP, 2026) opens with a quote from Clara expanding on the Combahee River Collective 1977 statement…
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A Healthy Union: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health with Susan Kaplan (Island Press, 2025)
October 7, 2026 · 31 minIn the absence of adequate federal safeguards against pollution and toxic chemicals, state policies are the strongest tools available to create safe, sustainable environments. The good news is, around the country, red states and blue…
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Down and Out in Utopia: Unemployment as Moral Education in Norway with Kelly McKowen (U Toronto Press, 2026)
October 7, 2026 · 44 minImagine that you have just lost your job. You wonder: “Who or what can I depend on now?” The answer, it turns out, varies significantly depending on where you live. In Norway, a small European social democracy, you would almost certainly…
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Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession with Nicolas Guilhot (Harvard UP, 2026)
October 6, 2026 · 48 minPundits, scholars, and the general public alike have argued that conspiratorial thinking is the greatest threat to liberal democracy. In Conspiracy: The History of a Political Obsession (Harvard UP, 2026), Dr. Nicolas Guilhot, however…
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The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts with Michael Khodarkovsky (Yale UP, 2026)
October 5, 2026 · 1 hr 13 minWhat is Russia? For two centuries, observers inside and outside the country have tried to answer that question, and most of them have looked west. The familiar story holds that Peter the Great pulled a backward Muscovy toward Europe and…
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Beyond Incremental Reform: Rethinking the United Nations with Augusto López-Claros
October 3, 2026 · 42 minAs the United Nations faces mounting geopolitical tensions, financial pressures, and new global challenges, what would meaningful reform actually look like? In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Fellow Peter Hoffman speaks with…
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Rhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order with Sasikumar Sundaram (Columbia UP, 2026)
October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 8 minRecent years have seen a striking resurgence of anti-imperial and anticolonial rhetoric on the international stage, from Global South to Global North and from the Left to the Right. Why do states deploy these forms of rhetoric in global…