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Alisa Kessel, "Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence" …

4/16/2026 • 73 min

Political theorist Alisa Kessel (University of Puget Sound) has an important and impressive new book, Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence. Kessel’s research grew out of her work on questions of consent and how consent is embedded within the social contract structure. Initially the plan for the research was to critique this concept… Play episode

Daniel A. Bell, "Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialo…
Larry M. Bartels and Katherine J. Cramer, "The Politics of Social Change: …
Victor Li, "Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birt…
Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corpo…
Radio ReOrient 14.2: State of the Ummah: Authoritarianism and Resistance: …
The Green Transition and the Politics of Lithium Extraction
Thorsten Gromes, "Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recen…
Andrew Thomas Park, "Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent Hist…
Alex Diamond, "Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Co…
Ho-fung Hung, "The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear" (C…
Hilary Matfess, "After Liberation: Women and the Politics of Expectations …
Marta Lorimer, "Europe As Ideological Resource: European Integration and F…
Stephen Onyango Ouma, "Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty …
The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout
Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge…
Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture W…
Thomas Hegghammer and Diego Gambetta eds., "Fight, Flight, Mimic: Identity…
Sarah James, "The Politics of Failed Policies" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in…
Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conver…
How Authoritarians Exploit Gender
On Trump as a “World Historical Individual” with author John B. Judis
Lucia Motolinia, "Unity through Particularism: How Electoral Reforms Influ…
A Year of Autocratization: Steep Declines in Democracy Registered in 2025 …
Stephen G. Brooks, "The Political Economy of Security" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Sidra Hamidi, "After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic A…
Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for La…
Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin…
Our Age of War: A Discussion with Author Robert Pape
Alex Powell, "Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Adminis…
Lauren M. MacLean, "Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana: Electricity…
Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee, "Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporat…
Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divi…
Katelyn E. Stauffer, "The Politics of Perception: How Beliefs About Women’…
Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Prin…
Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology…
Populism, Polarization and Politics: Hungary on the Eve of Elections
Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress
Sean Parson, "Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance" (Bloomsbury,…
The Cave and the Coalition: Philosophy, Populism, and the MAGA New Right
Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequa…
Allison Carnegie and Richard Clark, "Global Governance Under Fire: How Int…
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew …
Christine Loh, "Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kon…
Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived
Thailand’s February 2026 Snap Election: A Conversation with Prof Duncan Mc…
Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Blo…
Kenneth Lowande, "False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in…
Thomas Zeitzoff, "No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Moveme…

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