Episodes

  • Episode 102 – Genetics and Race with Rina Bliss

    Episode 102 – Genetics and Race with Rina Bliss
    Feb 17 2026
    Rina Bliss discusses her book, What’s Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society. Professor Bliss begins by posing the question, what is the true relationship between genetics and race? While genetics proves race does not exist, racism persists. By looking into the history of racial science and eugenics, Professor Bliss explains how these false […]
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  • Episode 101 – Lord Dunmore’s Emancipation Proclamation with Andrew Lawler

    Episode 101 – Lord Dunmore’s Emancipation Proclamation with Andrew Lawler
    Feb 3 2026
    Andrew Lawler discusses his new book, “Perfect Frenzy: a Royal Governor, his Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution.” It is the story of the colony of Virginia on the eve of the American Revolution and Lord Dunmore, infamous British villain. But what is fact and what is fiction? Lord Dunmore issued […]
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  • Episode 100 – Alt-Right, Nazis, and Trump Staffing with Amanda Moore

    Episode 100 – Alt-Right, Nazis, and Trump Staffing with Amanda Moore
    Jan 20 2026
    Amanda Moore is a freelance journalist covering the far right. We discuss her year undercover in the Alt-Right and her continued work exposing Nazis. Moore’s work has centered on far-right influencer Nick Fuentes’s misogyny and neo-Nazi rhetoric. Most recently, she’s monitoring the J6 insurrectionists and the continued appeal of those who’s convictions were commuted and […]
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  • Episode 99 – Interrupting the Supreme Court with Tonja Jacobi

    Episode 99 – Interrupting the Supreme Court with Tonja Jacobi
    Jan 6 2026
    Tonja Jacobi discusses her article “Supreme Court Interruptions and Interventions: The Changing Role of the Chief Justice.” Recent scholarship has focused on how often the Supreme Court Justices get interrupted, especially when female Justices are speaking. To fix this, the Court changed how hearings are run. This article looks at whether these interruptions—and the gender […]
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  • Episode 98 – Sherman’s March of Emancipation with Bennett Parten

    Episode 98 – Sherman’s March of Emancipation with Bennett Parten
    Dec 23 2025
    Bennett Parten discusses his book, Somewhere Toward Freedom Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation. The book tells the story of Sherman’s March through the south as a social history of the refugee crisis brought on by the war and the Emancipation Proclamation. As freed slaves rushed toward the Union forces, they brought […]
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  • Episode 97 – White Innocence and Black Infant Mortality with Annie Menzel

    Episode 97 – White Innocence and Black Infant Mortality with Annie Menzel
    Dec 9 2025
    Annie Menzel discusses her book, Fatal Denial Racism and the Political Life of Black Infant Mortality. Drawing on her own experience as a midwife as inspiration, Prof. Menzel lays out the history of white innocence, flawed racial science, and the cult of true babyhood all contribute to real violence to black maternal outcomes. As overt […]
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  • Episode 96 – Private Prisons After Dobbs with Robert Craig

    Episode 96 – Private Prisons After Dobbs with Robert Craig
    Nov 25 2025
    Robert Craig discusses his article, “Fundamental Rights and Private Prisons after Dobbs: Shifting Sands and Opportunities.” He details the history of private prisons next to the history of state-run prisons. Additionally, the competing interest of for-profit prison incentivizes extended incarceration and cost cutting practices that set the stage for a legal argument based on Plyler […]
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  • Episode 95 – From “Feminist Lies” to “White Replacement” with Katharina Motyl

    Episode 95 – From “Feminist Lies” to “White Replacement” with Katharina Motyl
    Nov 11 2025
    Katharina Motyl discusses her chapter, “From “Feminist Lies” to “White Replacement”: Digital Anti-Feminist Forums as Spaces of Collective Radicalization.”Which explores how the “manosphere” draws men and boys into a world of increasingly radical far-right ideologies, through grievance and misogyny . Prof. Motyl explores how digital platforms enable the spread of extremist ideologies, transforming individual grievances […]
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