Ep. 126 — Do States Act Rationally?
November 22, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato about How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy. Starting with a… READ MORE
Category: Political Science
Archival Parallels: Donald Trump and Jefferson Davis
November 7, 2023
Yael A. Sternhell— Early in his presidency, commentators began calling Donald Trump “the first Confederate president.”1 There were obvious reasons why the sobriquet seemed to take—Trump spoke in a language… READ MORE
Migration and the End of Empire
October 5, 2023
Peter Heather — However you line up the different factors involved, there’s no doubt that immigration played a major role in the unraveling of the western half of the Roman… READ MORE
China Has Peaked? It Can Still Change World Order
September 28, 2023
John M. Owen IV— The smart money, it seems, is now saying that China has peaked. The slowing of the country’s economic growth is starting to seem like more than a… READ MORE
The Calamity of an “Idea”
August 10, 2023
Nelly Lahoud— Within less than two years of conceiving the idea, Usama put it into action. On September 11, 2001, and on Usama’s orders, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes,… READ MORE
The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism
June 22, 2023
Erwin Chemerinsky— One more example—a particularly powerful one of originalists abandoning originalism when it does not serve their ideological goals—is affirmative action. The originalists who have been on the Court,… READ MORE
History is Littered with False Narratives
June 9, 2023
Stephen Roach— HISTORY IS LITTERED WITH FALSE NARRATIVES. From the flat earth theory and the Ptolemaic system of cosmology to tales of UFO sightings and the “Big Lie” of election… READ MORE
The Myth of Limited Government
April 28, 2023
Ronnie Janoff-Bulman— The call for limited government is a recurring theme in Republican politics. Ronald Reagan’s refrain that government is the problem, not the solution, has taken many rhetorical forms… READ MORE
Examining Heidegger’s Legacy: A Conversation with Richard Wolin
January 10, 2023
Martin Heidegger’s sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism have long been well known. But the 2014 publication of his “Black Notebooks” reveals a deeper and more radical ideology… READ MORE
Mançur Olson on Oligopoly and Social Norms
September 20, 2022
Mançur Lloyd Olson Jr.— At least after they reach a certain point, distributional coalitions have an incentive to be exclusive. In the case of collusive oligopolists or others that operate… READ MORE
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