The Politics Classroom

In the Classroom: Professor Evan McKenzie (UIC Political Science/UIC School of Law)

Topics: Establishment Clause v. Free Expression Clause; regulating today's guns with 1790 regulations; relying on Congress to solve climate change

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In the Classroom: Professor Evan McKenzie (UIC Political Science/UIC School of Law)

Topics: Supreme Court justices; radical v. conservative; Dobbs decision and implications

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In The Classroom: Professor Dick Simpson, UIC Political Science

Topics: Rebirth of Democracy; history of UIC; balancing a career with public service; redistricting; voting; judicial elections; participatory and deliberative democracy

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Photo: Wrigley Building, Chicago. Photo by Shelby L. Bell and cover design by Jim Proefrock

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In the Classroom: Professor Laura T. Hamilton, Sociology, University of California - Merced

Topics: Racial consequences of underfunding public universities; austerity administrators; bankers on university boards; public higher education as a public good

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Further reading about topics discussed on this episode at The Bookshelf

In the Classroom: Previously unaired interview content with Dr. Sabine Mohamed (UIC Anthropology), Prof. Chris Bonneau (University of Pittsburgh Political Science), and Prof. EJ Fagan (UIC Political Science)

Topics: Blackness in Germany; filibuster; voting rights legislation; the Deep State; and more

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Dr. Mohamed's full episode (2022.09: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend)

Professor Bonneau's full episode (2022.12: No One Should Have Life Terms...Except Tenured Professors)

Professor Fagan's full episode (2022.13: Promises Kept and Unkept)

For further reading, check out The Bookshelf at the podcast website

In the Classroom: Professor EJ Fagan (Political Science), University of Illinois at Chicago

Topics: Three branches of government; presidential authority; Senate filibuster; US Supreme Court cases; 2020 election promises; possibility of civil war in the US

While discussing Supreme Court cases that might be overturned under the current court, Professor Fagan and I mislabeled some of the cases, naming one case when we should have named another. Given that neither of us are judicial politics scholars, we humbly ask the listeners' forgiveness and direct them to The Bookshelf on The Politics Classroom website, where I've provided links to the cases we mistakenly named and those we meant to discuss.

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In the Classroom: Professor Chris Bonneau (Political Science), University of Pittsburgh

Topics: College classes in correctional facilities; judicial elections; US Supreme Court; University shared governance

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For more on today's topics: The Bookshelf

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In the Classroom: Ryan Hurley, Regional Director, Illinois Senate Democratic Fund

Topics: Illinois Democratic Politics; campaign minutia; former IL House Speaker Mike Madigan; redistricting

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In the Classroom: Retired US Ambassador Ian C. Kelly

Topics: Ten centuries of Russia-Ukraine history in 30-ish minutes; Putin's motivation in Ukraine; what message Western sanctions send to China

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In the Classroom: Dr. Sabine Mohamed, Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate (Anthropology, UIC)

Topics: War in Ethiopia; Ethiopian military + Eritrean military against region of Tigray (Ethiopia); shifting alliances in Ethiopia/Eritrea; importance of access to the sea; race in Germany

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For further reading: The Bookshelf on The Politics Classroom website