Beste Polemics Podcasts (2025)

1
Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025) 57:44

7h ago57:44

57:44

As the fortification of Europe's borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance industries. And when US Immigration Customs Enforcement aggressively reinforced its program of raids, detention, and family separation, it was powered by Silicon Valley corporations. In cities of refuge, w…

1
Fidelity over Frequency at the Table 1:15:03

3d ago1:15:03

1:15:03

In this episode of Kingdom Polemics, we are providing a rebroadcast of a sermon given by Pastor Aldo Leon at Pinelands Presbyterian in Cutler Bay, FL. He delves into the biblical principles surrounding the Lord's Supper, emphasizing the importance of fidelity over frequency in communion. Drawing from Exodus 12, 1 Corinthians 11, and historical Refo…

1
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025) 1:17:10

7h ago1:17:10

1:17:10

Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (University of California Press, 2025) illuminates the throughline between the nineteenth century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic discrimination. With this book, Anita Say Chan offers a historical, …

1
Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship 43:28

1d ago43:28

43:28

The presidents of the American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians join the podcast to talk about the effects of historical censorship, data shredding, meaningful public education – and what everyone can do to fight back. After being sworn in as the 47th president, Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders. The order…

1
Royce Kurmelovs, "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil" (U Queensland Press, 2024) 34:49

2d ago34:49

34:49

A riveting expose of the global oil industry' s multi-decade conspiracy to muddy the waters around the science of climate change and use the Australian government to undermine worldwide efforts to address environmental devastation. Researched and written by one of Australia' s most fearless investigative journalists, Slick: Australia's Toxic Relati…

1
David Hollenbach, "Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition" (Georgetown UP, 2024) 1:07:56

3d ago1:07:56

1:07:56

In his most recent book, Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition (Georgetown UP, 2024), Jesuit scholar and Georgetown professor, Fr David Hollenbach explains the Judeo-Christian roots of our concept of human rights and the contributions of secular institutions like the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights …

1
Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024) 30:32

6d ago30:32

30:32

The Language of Climate Politics (Oxford UP, 2024) offers readers new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help get fossil fuels out of our economy and save our planet. It's an analysis of the current discourse of American climate politics, but also a critical history of the terms that most directly influence the way not just conservativ…

1
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2) 52:57

6d ago52:57

52:57

This week on Madison’s Notes, we continue our discussion with Stephen Macedo, co-author of In COVID’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us (Princeton UP, 2025). The book examines the institutional failures during the pandemic, including the politicization of science, inconsistent messaging, and the disproportionate impacts of policies. We cover key que…

1
Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024) 43:07

7d ago43:07

43:07

Economist Bryan Caplan has written—and artist Ady Branzei has illustrated—this new graphic novel about housing regulation (if ‘novel’ can be applied to an imaginative essay on a nonfiction topic), Build Baby Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation (Cato Institute, 2024). The thesis of the work is that regulation has driven up the cost o…

1
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:05:57

9d ago1:05:57

1:05:57

Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceratio…

1
R2K and FV Joined in Anti-Revival 1:59:30

10d ago1:59:30

1:59:30

In this episode of Kingdom Polemics, Pastor Aldo Leon is joined by Rev. Zach Dotson from the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia http://www.ulvpcea.org. Together, they explore the surprising commonalities between Radical Two Kingdoms (R2K) theology and Federal Vision (FV), particularly in their shared resistance to revivalism and experiential …

1
Postscript: Donald Trump is Erasing History – What YOU Can Do about it 18:49

10d ago18:49

18:49

On January 20th, Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” The order announced that “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incont…

1
Postscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship 41:39

11d ago41:39

41:39

Birthright citizenship is established in the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution – yet Donald Trump’s recent Executive Order 14160 denies some types of birthright citizenship. The Order contradicts over a century of American law, legal practice, and constitutional interpretation. Three groups have opposed th…

1
Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022) 53:20

12d ago53:20

53:20

Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Resistance Literature at the Arab Open University in Jordan. She is the author of the award-winning Imagining Palestine and serves as an assistant editor of Arab Studies Quarterly. National identities are inherently fluid, shaped as much by collective beliefs and cultural practices as by official borders and territory…

1
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee 45:57

13d ago45:57

45:57

In the first part of our two-part conversation on Madison’s Notes, we speak with Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, about her co-authored book In COVID’s Wake (Princeton UP, 2025). The book offers a comprehensive and candid political assessment of how institutions performed during the pandemic. It explore…

1
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird 1:04:26

15d ago1:04:26

1:04:26

Today I’m speaking with Chryl Laird, Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park. We are discussing her co-authored book with Ismail White, Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior. Published in 2020, this book remains highly relevant for understanding American political beh…

1
Postscript: All talk and no action? How political scientists respond to racism and authoritarianism? 1:04:43

15d ago1:04:43

1:04:43

After the murder of George Floyd, the United States had the largest protests in the nation’s history. Other public and private responses included corporations, organizations, and communities making policies, issuing statements, and engaging in conversations. Some political science departments issued statements. My guests today are three political s…

1
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:35:02

16d ago1:35:02

1:35:02

Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail (Cambridge UP, 2023) demonstrates that a major part of the answer lies in the transformation of its state. It shows how Britain championed radical economic liberalisation only to…

1
Bring Back the Table and out with Cups and Breads 1:27:16

17d ago1:27:16

1:27:16

In this thought-provoking episode of Kingdom Polemics, Pastor Aldo Leon challenges modern practices surrounding the Lord's Supper and calls for a return to biblical fidelity in how we observe this sacred meal. This episode is a rebroadcast of a sermon delivered at Pinelands Presbyterian Church in Cutler Bay, Florida, where Pastor Leon expounds on t…

1
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019) 1:02:54

17d ago1:02:54

1:02:54

Critics on the Left have long attacked open markets and free trade agreements for exploiting the poor and undermining labor, while those on the Right complain that they unjustly penalize workers back home. In Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (Harvard University Press, 2019), Kimberly Clausing takes on old a…

1
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS) 46:52

19d ago46:52

46:52

John joins Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian for the roundup episode of the second series of Violent Majorities, focusing on long-distance ethnonationalism. Looking back at their conversations with Peter Beinart on Zionism and Subir Sinha on Hindutva, Lori begins by asking whether Peter underestimates the material entanglements keeping Jewish Amer…

1
Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024) 1:05:37

21d ago1:05:37

1:05:37

Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education (MIT Press, 2024) is an imaginative tour of the contemporary university as it could be: a place to discover self-knowledge, meaning, and purpose. What if college were not just a means of acquiring credentials, but a place to pursue our formation as whole persons striving to lead lives of meanin…

1
Andrew Boyd, "I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor" (New Society, 2023) 50:03

22d ago50:03

50:03

Andrew Boyd is a humorist and long-time veteran of creative campaigns for social change. He led the decade-long satirical media campaign “Billionaires for Bush,” and is co-founder of both Agit-Pop Communications, an award-winning creative agency and the netroots powerhouse The Other 98%, which specializes in winning the battle of the ‘story’ throug…

1
Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025) 58:12

23d ago58:12

58:12

How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem old-fashioned. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change—not just to do their jobs reliably but to create new opportunities for themselves and for others. Our culture of wor…

1
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024) 55:17

24d ago55:17

55:17

My guest today Sam Srauy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations at Oakland University, Her research examines race, video games, and the political economy of the video game industry. Srauy’s work appears in various academic journals including Social Media + Society, First Mondays, Games and Cul…

1
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores 1:02:39

26d ago1:02:39

1:02:39

Our book is: Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America’s Biggest Retail Stores (UP of Colorado, 2024) which presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century. From the rural South to the frigid North, from inside stores to ecologies far beyond, this book e…

1
Giampaolo Conte, "A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms" (Routledge, 2024) 24:39

28d ago24:39

24:39

A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression ‘liberal reform’ has entered common parlance as an evocative image of austerity and economic malaise, especially for the working classes and a segment of the middle class. But what exactly does ‘liberal …

Podcasts, die es wert sind, gehört zu werden

Polemics Podcasts

Podcasts, die es wert sind, gehört zu werden

1
Kingdom Polemics

Kingdom Polemics - Your Host: Aldo Leon

1
New Books in Politics and Polemics

Marshall Poe

1
POLEMICS REC.

POLEMICS

1
Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025) 57:44

1
Fidelity over Frequency at the Table 1:15:03

1
Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025) 1:17:10

1
Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship 43:28

1
Royce Kurmelovs, "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil" (U Queensland Press, 2024) 34:49

1
David Hollenbach, "Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition" (Georgetown UP, 2024) 1:07:56

1
Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024) 30:32

1
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2) 52:57

1
Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024) 43:07

1
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:05:57

1
R2K and FV Joined in Anti-Revival 1:59:30

1
Postscript: Donald Trump is Erasing History – What YOU Can Do about it 18:49

1
Postscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship 41:39

1
Tahrir Hamdi, "Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity" (Bloomsbury, 2022) 53:20

1
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee 45:57

1
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird 1:04:26

1
Postscript: All talk and no action? How political scientists respond to racism and authoritarianism? 1:04:43

1
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:35:02

1
Bring Back the Table and out with Cups and Breads 1:27:16

1
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019) 1:02:54

1
Violent Majorities 2.3: Long-Distance Ethnonationalism Roundup (LA, AS) 46:52

1
Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024) 1:05:37

1
Andrew Boyd, "I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor" (New Society, 2023) 50:03

1
Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025) 58:12

1
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024) 55:17

1
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores 1:02:39

1
Giampaolo Conte, "A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms" (Routledge, 2024) 24:39

Kurzanleitung