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Melani McAlister joins Protean View to discuss the history of the Christian Right in the United States, its recent split on the question of Israel, the future of U.S.-Israel relations, and the evangelical discourse on Christian persecution by Muslims.

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William Barylo joins Protean View to discuss his new book, Muslims in the Neoliberal Empire: Resisting, Healing, and Flourishing in the Metacolonial Era (Oxford, 2025).

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Zaid Adhami joins Protean View to discuss his new book, Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith (UNC Press, 2025) and what authenticity, crisis, and belief mean in relation to each other.

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Christoph Schuringa joins Protean View to discuss his new book, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy (Verso, 2025).

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Elizabeth Shakman Hurd joins Protean View to discuss her new book, Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States (Chicago, 2025).

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm joins Protean View to discuss the superstition-secular-religion "trinary" as well as his upcoming book, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of History (Chicago, 2026).

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Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza join Protean View to discuss their new book, Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an: A Patronage of Piety (Oxford, 2024).

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Norman Finkelstein joins Protean View to discuss the recent crackdown on the student protest movement, as well as BDS, free speech, leftist politics, and more.

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This episode of Protean View features Nader Hashemi, a political theorist and the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.

Hashemi joined Protean View to discuss his 2017 book, Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East, and whether it remains relevant in the aftermath of October 7.

Sectarianization was published during the twilight of the Arab Spring and appeared to have a lot of explanatory power in that moment. The book argues that recent bouts of sectarianism in the Middle East are primarily informed by authoritarian regimes manipulating identity cleavages to extend their expiring shelf life. Nearly a decade later, as the politics of the region shift, does the sectarianization thesis still hold up?
We address the recent history of the Middle East and analyze post-Arab Spring politics as we attempt to situate the sectarianization thesis in the present moment.

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This episode of Protean View features Daniel Tutt, a philosopher, writer, and host of the Emancipations podcast.

Tutt joined Protean View to discuss a recent article he published with Muftah titled "Loser Politics," as well as his new book on Nietzsche, How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche (Random House, 2024). In different ways, Tutt's article and book both address how Nietzsche’s thought has shaped the language of our politics, including the seemingly unavoidable winner-loser framework that Tutt suggests we’re trapped in.

We discuss why Nietzsche remains so important in our time, and how, in so many ways, his thought presents an obstacle to the development of a real working class movement interested in defying the strictures of the winner-loser binary.

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