RevDem Podcast
1) Heimat Revisited: Jeremy DeWaal on Place, Belonging and Post-war Politics in West Germany
What does it mean to feel “at home” in aplace, and why does that matter for democracy? In this episode, historianJeremy DeWaal talks about Heimat, a German word that is famously hard to translate. It ...Show More
2) Stiliagi and Soviet Masculinities- A Conversation with Alla Myzelev
In the Soviet Union, youth fashion meant more than just a way of expression. In our latest episode, we discusswith Alla Myzelev about the stiliagi, a flamboyant youth subculture that emerged in the la...Show More
3) On Genocide: Omer Bartov in Conversation about Palestine, Israel, and Germany
Over the last two years, the world has witnessed atrocities beyond imagination. The killing of approximately 1,200 people by Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023, was followed by a genocidal war in whic...Show More
4) The Great War and the Transformation of Central Europe: A Conversation with Tara Zahra and Pieter Judson
In this episode of the Review of Democracy Podcast,historians Tara Zahra and Pieter Judson discuss their book TheGreat War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe (Oxford University Press, 2...Show More
5) Stiliagi and Soviet Masculinities- A Conversation with Alla Myzelev
In the Soviet Union, youth fashion meant more than just a way of expression. In our latest episode, we discusswith Alla Myzelev about the stiliagi, a flamboyant youth subculture that emerged in the la...Show More
6) Benjamin Gedan and Elias French on The Threat to Latin American Term Limits
In our latest episode of the special series producedin partnership with the Journal of Democracy, we discuss the recent article co-authored by Benjamin Gedan and Elias French, entitled “The Threat to ...Show More
7) End of the Year Podcast 2025 – Part I: Reflections and Reckonings
As 2025 draws to a close, RevDem editors Alexandra Kardos(History of Ideas), Gabriel Pereira (Cross-Regional Dialogue), and Kristóf Szombati (Political Economy and Inequalities) take stock of a turbul...Show More
8) Carceral Politics: “Public Life” of Prisons in Modern Iran and Beyond
In this latest conversation with Golnar Nikpour, we discuss her book, The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2024). We discuss how modern Iranian prisons ...Show More
9) 2025 in Perspective: Daron Acemoğlu on Democracy, Delivery, and the Crisis Within
In this exclusive end-of-year conversation with ourCo-Managing Editor Ece Özbey, Nobel Prize–winning political economist Daron Acemoğlu reflects on what 2025 revealed, and failed to resolve, about the...Show More
2025 in Perspective: Daron Acemoğlu on Democracy, Delivery, and the Crisis Within
25:06 | Dec 15th, 2025
10) An Authoritarian Turn in Contemporary Germany? – In Conversation with Robin Celikates
The threat of the far-right dominates politics in Germany today. The ascendance of the AfD marks the first time since the end of World War II that such a force has attracted a considerable share of th...Show More