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Recent Episodes

Policing for the Market with Brenden Beck

Posted November 3, 2017 •

Why have the size of American police departments grown so dramatically in recent decades, even as crime rates have fallen? One factor may have been...

Universalizing American Liberty with Aziz Rana

Posted October 31, 2017 •

Aziz Rana discusses his pivotal book, The Two Faces of American Freedom. Rana overturns conventional accounts of American history, from settlement...

Alex Press on Collective Action to Fight Sexual Harassment

Posted October 27, 2017 •

The exposure of Weinstein's predations has reignited widespread fury over the longstanding problem of sexual harassment and assault—especially in...

Corey Robin: Trump's Reactionary Mind

Posted October 24, 2017 •

@CoreyRobin points to a tension that has defined conservatism from the get-go, between two competing conceptions of virtue and nobility: one defined...

Bonus: Ending the War on Drug Dealers

Posted October 23, 2017 •

Dan was on a panel last week on ending the war on drug dealers at the Drug Policy Alliance conference in Atlanta. The panel was moderated by asha bandele...