The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast

Episode 8.7: Green Capitalism and the New Politics of Extraction

Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. Political scientist THEA RIOFRANOS discusses her book, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, which looks at the mining behind t

Episode 8.6: Susan Stryker on Gender, History, and the Politics of Classification

Interviewer: MIRANDA EDITH SKLAROFF. Historian and theorist SUSAN STRYKER joins the Andrea Mitchell Center to discuss her new book, Changing Gender: The History and Futur

Episode 8.5: Elite Power and the Meaning of Democracy

Interviewer: JOSHUA ROSE. In this episode, host Joshua Rose speaks with DR. NATASHA PIANO, Assistant Professor of Political Theory at UCLA, about her book Democratic Elit

Episode 8.4: Faith After Revolution: Religion, Politics, and the Legacy of Egypt's 2011 Uprising

Interviewer: JOSHUA ROSE. In this episode, host Joshua Rose speaks with DR. NAREMAN AMIN about her new book, Is God for Revolution? Affect, Youth, and Islam in Post-2011

Episode 8.3: The Perils of the American Dream: A Discussion with Alissa Quart of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Interviewer: MATTHEW ROTH. The acts of the current administration, as well as the OBBBA legislation passed by Congress, point to an economic vision that rejects sharing r

Episode 8.2: Race, Democracy, and the Making of "the People"

Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. Political theorist MICHAEL GORUP joins the podcast to discuss the intertwined histories of race, democracy, and popular sovereignty in t

Episode 8.1: The Cruel Double Standard of American Criminal Justice: How Crime in the Streets is Treated Differently than Crime in the Suites

Interviewer: MATTHEW ROTH. At a moment when tough-on-crime rhetoric, as voiced by Donald Trump and others in the Republican Party, has again become a politically polarizi

Episode 7.17: The Forgotten Civil Rights Legacy of Congressman Charles C. Diggs, Jr.

Interviewer: MATTHEW ROTH. The ways in which the Civil Rights Movement translated passion and protest into durable political change were complex, involving a wide range o

Episode 7.16: Fortress Power: How Design Shapes Control and Resistance

Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. In this episode, DEREK DENMAN explores the concept of "fortress power," a form of governance rooted in the design and control of space.

Episode 7.15: Presidential Words Matter: A Conversation with Obama Speechwriter Cody Keenan

Interviewer: MATTHEW ROTH. Speech was central to the political success of both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, who each emerged through insurgent campaigns bolstered by th

Episode 7.14: Politics Can Still Be Local: A Discussion with Pennsylvania State Rep Candidate Leo Solga

Interviewer: MATTHEW ROTH. If today's politicians, even and the state and local level, often seem more interested in scoring off ideological opponents to gain clicks than

Episode 7.13: Democracy as a Public Health Intervention

Interviewer: JOSHUA ROSE. In this episode of the Andrea Mitchell Center podcast, Joshua Rose speaks with Penn Political Science Professor JULIA LYNCH about her book Getti

Episode 7.12: A Philadelphia Church and the West African Revival, 1918–1929

Interviewer: JOSHUA ROSE.  Host JOSHUA ROSE speaks with Dr. ADAM MOHR, Senior Lecturer in Penn's Critical Writing Program, about his 2023 book The West African Revival: F

Episode 7.11: Marriage, the Welfare State, and the Politics of "Family Values"

Interviewer: JOSHUA ROSE. In this episode of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy podcast, host JOSHUA ROSE speaks with Penn Law and History Professor SE

Episode 7.10: Democracy as Dispersion of Power: A Conversation with Samuel Bagg

Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. Over the past decade we have witnessed an unfolding global crisis of democracy, in its liberal-democratic, representative, capitalist fo

Episode 7.9: Unlimited Money, Limited Oversight: Virginia's Democracy on Trial

Interviewer: MATT BERKMAN. Journalist and anti-corruption investigator JOSH STANFIELD joins host MATT BERKMAN to unpack Virginia's feverish election season, discussing ca

Episode 7.8: Socialism, Logically: Scott Sehon on Rights, Welfare, and Markets

Interviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. Philosopher SCOTT SEHON joins the podcast to discuss his book Socialism: A Logical Introduction (Oxford University Press). Sehon present

Episode 7.7: Stemming the Tide of Vaccine Refusal: Beyond MAHA's Vision of Patient Empowerment

Interviewer: MATTHEW ROTH. Anti-vaccine rhetoric is on the rise in the U.S., encouraged now by MAHA-dominated health policies emerging from Washington. It is tempting to

Episode 7.6: Credibility in Prisons

Interviewer: CARRIE WELSH. Why does the American criminal justice system produce unreliable knowers? In this episode, host CARRIE WELSH is joined by philosopher and priso

Episode 7.5: Trump and the Era of Ungoverning: A Discussion with Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum

Interviewer: MATTHEW ROTH. In their 2024 book Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos, Professors RUSSELL MUIRHEAD (Dartmouth) and N