Podcast On Bullshit in Politics August 15, 2025 We鈥檙e continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt鈥檚 seminal work, On Bullshit. Our discussion with Michael Patrick Lynch is on bullshit in politics, and how we might think about ways to combat it. Read More
Podcast The Insiders鈥� Game June 30, 2025 Tracing presidential decisions about the use of force from the Cold War through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Elizabeth N. Saunders reveals how the elite politics of war are a central feature of democracy. The Insiders鈥� Game shifts the focus of democratic accountability from the voting booth to the halls of power. Read More
Podcast Citizen Marx May 19, 2025 In Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx鈥檚 thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. Read More
Podcast Steadfast Democrats, Five Years Later May 01, 2025 An innovative explanation for why Black Americans continue in political lockstep, Steadfast Democrats sheds light on the motivations consolidating an influential portion of the American electoral population. Read More
Podcast Attention, Shoppers! April 24, 2025 Attention, Shoppers! traces the origins and evolution of American retail capitalism from the late nineteenth century to today, uncovering the roots of a bitter equilibrium where large low-cost retailers dominate and vast numbers of low-income families now rely on them to make ends meet. Read More
Podcast In Covid鈥檚 Wake, Part II April 22, 2025 With In Covid鈥檚 Wake, Macedo and Lee offer the first comprehensive鈥攁nd candid鈥攑olitical assessment of how our institutions fared during the pandemic. They describe how, influenced by Wuhan鈥檚 lockdown, governments departed from their existing pandemic plans. Read More
Podcast In Covid鈥檚 Wake, Part I April 17, 2025 The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world鈥檚 population鈥�3.9 billion people鈥攚ere living under quarantine. Read More
Essay When darkness still prevails: The authoritarian attack on truth April 17, 2025 鈥淎t no time in history have words meant so little as they do today,鈥� declared the philosopher John Dewey in 1941. Dewey, who at the time was one of America鈥檚 preeminent public intellectuals, was worried about what he called 鈥渃omplete inversions of truth鈥� by authoritarians and their sympathizers at home. Read More
On the freedom to read, speak, and exchange ideas April 14, 2025 The free and open exchange of ideas underlies intellectual inquiry and is the bedrock of a democratic society. Through engaged dialogue we refine our thinking, test our assumptions, and move closer to shared human truths. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Tamar Mitts on using public policy to confront online extremism April 04, 2025 Tamar Mitts鈥� research addresses emerging challenges at the intersection of technology and security. Read More
Essay Unlocking the Middle East riddle April 03, 2025 The Middle East is a tinderbox. The convergence of military, economic, social and geopolitical crises makes this moment, one of the most dangerous periods in the modern history of the region, an inflection point. Read More
Podcast Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men March 11, 2025 In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Read More
Essay Content moderation is a policy problem, not just a platform problem March 11, 2025 We have all witnessed the familiar cycle. Extremist or hateful content surfaces online and sparks public outrage鈥攑erhaps a stream of violent propaganda, a wave of conspiracy theories, or explicit calls for harm. Read More
Reading List Exploring Black Experiences February 01, 2025 First proposed by Black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in 1969,聽Black History Month, celebrated annually in February in the US, is an opportunity to celebrate Black voices, achievements, and to聽reflect on the central role of African Americans throughout US history. 91桃色 is proud to publish books that engage with serious issues and ideas relating to Black experiences. Read More
Essay Marx and socialist anti-politics January 23, 2025 Socialists believe in economic emancipation from the domination and unfreedom of capitalism. But realising that monumental economic goal invariably and inescapably requires socialists to think about what political means, if any, might bring it about. Read More
