This episode explores recent challenges to the ideal of the university as a space for open debate and the plurality... more

This episode explores the pitfalls of valorizing participation as a democratic end in itself. How might a one-sided emphasis on... more

This episode explores the current political organizing stemming from mass student-led protests in Serbia against corruption of the regime. Why... more

This episode explores the mass student-led protests in Serbia against corruption of the regime. How did moral outrage over a... more

This episode explores the broad implications of the large-scale protests across Turkey in response to President Erdoğan’s repression of political... more

This episode explores Cara Daggett's concept of petro-masculinity. It explains how fossil fuel-based power structures depend on a gendered and... more

This episode explores the multiple contradictions of Iranian society today. What are the limits for Iranian cultural producers? And what... more

This episode explores the recent German elections and related social, economic and cultural issues. How did welfare measures, migration and... more

This episode explores the attack against progressive political agendas in the U.S. How have recent actions rolled back hard-won achievements... more

This episode explores what a second Trump presidency could mean for American domestic policy and politics, and for the rest... more