Today’s podcast guest is Michael Wuthrich, Associate Professor of Political Science and the Associate Director for Global & International Studies at the University of Kansas. He is co-author of the book, Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa.
In this episode, we discuss the intersection of religion and politics, particularly in the non-Arab Muslim countries of Turkey and Iran, what has been behind the growth of Islam globally, changes in secularism in Turkey under Erdogan, and the impact of the Islamic Republic on religiosity for everyday people in Iran.
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Mike Wuthrich is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Associate Director for Global & International Studies at the University of Kansas. He received his PhD in Political Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey in 2011. His interests are Middle East politics, particularly Turkish, Kurdish, and Iranian politics, parties and party systems, electoral behavior, religion and politics, women and politics in Turkey, and nationalism. His publications have appeared in Journal of Democracy, Political Research Quarterly, Parliamentary Affairs, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Middle East Journal, and Turkish Studies among others. He is co-author of the book, Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa, with Indiana University Press in 2022. His book, National Elections in Turkey: People, Politics, and the Party System was published in 2015 with Syracuse University Press.
The forces that define America—its creativity, capacity for reinvention, scientific genius, and moral imagination—are stronger than any one man’s madness. They cannot be extinguished; they can only be surrendered.
The next episode of my podcast "On the Issues" is this upcoming Tuesday, October 6, at 10:00am EDT with Michael Wuthrich, Associate Professor of Political Science and the Associate Director for Global & International Studies at the University of Kansas. He received his PhD in Political Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey in 2011. His research focuses on Middle East politics, particularly Turkish, Kurdish, and Iranian politics, electoral behavior, religion and politics, and nationalism. He is co-author of the 2022 book, Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Today’s podcast guest is Tony Klug, a Middle East analyst who has been a senior advisor on the Middle East to the Oxford Research Group and a consultant to the Palestine Strategy Group and the Israeli Strategic Forum.
In this episode, we discuss the plausibility of a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the feasibility of such a resolution, the past negotiations between Israel, the Palestinians, and involved Arab states, and what can be done based on the current facts on the ground.
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Dr. Tony Klug has been a senior advisor on the Middle East to the Oxford Research Group and a consultant to the Palestine Strategy Group and the Israeli Strategic Forum. He has written extensively about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the early 1970s and was one of the first advocates of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel in the wake of the 1967 war. His PhD thesis (1979) was on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. For many years, he worked at Amnesty International, where he headed the international development program.
THE NARCISSIST IN CHIEF
Donald Trump’s public conduct reflects a destructive pattern of narcissism: relentless self-aggrandizement; an insatiable need for praise; contempt for criticism; habitual dishonesty; refusal to accept responsibility; vindictiveness toward perceived rivals; exploitation of allies; disregard for truth; indifference to the suffering his actions cause; entitlement; impulsiveness; intimidation; divisiveness; and the conviction that institutions exist to serve him. These are not qualities of democratic leadership, but warnings of authoritarian self-absorption. He has been a menace to the United States, placing personal power and grievance above constitutional duty, public trust, and national unity. Every Republican who still enables him must confront this grim reality: America cannot be secured by a man who puts himself first and tears its democratic foundations down, brick by brick.
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Best president ever!!!
I bet you could count your IQ on one hand.
Idiot!
Are you not a Narcissist Alon?
narcissist was obama and biden
Keep it up Trump , the world is and will forever be a greater place with the liberal Democrats out of office.
Ah another butt hurt liberal ass. Trump won both the popular vote and electoral vote you are in the ignorant minority a member of the party of baby killers the party of ignorance and hysterics sexual perversion and mental illness abortion looting and burning, BLM pedophiles and child groomers child sex changes transgender things men in women bathrooms and sports assassination and hatred attacks police and ICE against voter ID.. ignorant f
THE GREATER DANGER IS THE RISE OF OLIGARCHY
The rise of the far right is not the only danger. The deeper threat is democracy's conversion into oligarchy, where immense private wealth translates into overwhelming political power. Removing right-wing parties alone will not restore democratic health. In centralized societies, oligarchic power expands whenever governments fail to meet people’s economic needs and allow wealthy interests to shape public policy. Changing course requires a democratic movement that directly confronts concentrated wealth: curb money's influence in politics, enforce antitrust laws, tax extreme wealth fairly, strengthen labor rights, and invest in affordable housing, health care, education, and secure jobs. Centrist leaders cannot successfully serve both oligarchs and the public. Democracy can endure only when governments choose the people—and mobilize them to defend political and economic equality.
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DEMOCRATS, ARE YOU PREPARED NOT MERELY TO WIN,
BUT TO DEFEND THE ELECTION?
Trump has pushed Texas redistricting for five additional Republican seats, demanded citizenship documentation, and sought restrictions on mail voting. Now he calls elections “rigged,” urges Republicans to “take over the voting,” and says that if elections are not “honest,” “something else has to happen. This rhetoric lays the groundwork for branding defeat as fraud.
WHAT IS YOUR PLAN IF FEDERAL AGENTS INTIMIDATE VOTERS, OFFICIALS SEIZE VOTING MACHINES, OR TRUMP INVOKES EMERGENCY POWER TO INTERFERE? These are contingencies, not established plans. Nevertheless, are your lawyers, governors, and election officials ready to act?
Do not mistake legal prohibitions for guarantees of restraint. Trump cares less about constitutional boundaries. Outrage afterward is no strategy. Preparation now is your obligation.
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We saw what they did on J6.
Just a thought. If all those people who will vote blue at the polls dress in Maga outfits. Ice will probably leave you alone. Trump will be happy to brag about all his loyal supporters. Once at the station vote Blue
Damn straight. Whatever it takes.
❤️❤️❤️ . no tax on tips, . no tax on overtime, . no tax on social security, . no Iranian nukes, . no men in women's sports, bathrooms, locker rooms, prisons, . no unvetted illegal alien invaders. Or • eliminate the U.S. Senate; • replace the presidency and the U.S. Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary handpicked and overseen by Congress; • abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement; • abolish U.S. borders and grant amnesty to all illegal aliens presently residing in the country; • defund the Department of War; • abolish prisons; and • seize public control of most large corporations. Megan Romer, DSA co-chair
Should we show up armed at polling places?
EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN MUST VOTE REPUBLICAN NOW AND ALWAYS!
VOTE BLUE!
Bwahahaha
if there are that many Americans who feel its ok to prevent other Americans from voting than there does need to be a civil war. so fill your hand if you only get 1 shot make it Count
America Stands With President Trump!
Sorry we don't want people that are not US Citizens to vote even if you do.....
They are the biggest voter frauds
On the Russia-1 channel, at exactly 7.43pm, the peak viewing moment of the week, the state feed cut out. What replaced it? A video broadcast to millions of Russians, showing Hillary Clinton torturing a child, in the company of VIPs, and members of her entourage including Huma Abedin, the woman who went on to marry Alex Soros. Let that sink in. A video so disturbing, so unthinkable, that grown men wept. The footage rolled into living rooms across the largest country on Earth like a nightmare you can’t wake from. Hillary Clinton. Huma Abedin. A child. Then the Kremlin did something stranger still. Within hours, a Most Wanted bulletin appeared. Hillary Clinton’s name, files, documents. Then it vanished. Scrubbed. Erased. As if it never existed. But forty million Russians saw it. And they are not okay. The phones haven’t stopped ringing in Moscow. They’re calling Hillary Clinton’s shame the “scandal of the century.” And the West? Dead silent. No headlines. No breaking news banners. Just a blackout. The biggest story on the planet, buried. The talking heads call it “Russian disinformation.” Case closed. Move along. Nothing to see. But ask yourself: why are they so desperate to make you look away? Here’s what we know: that signal didn’t hijack itself. Someone got inside. White-hat hackers with a conscience? Or the Kremlin itself, pulling the trigger on the most explosive broadcast in Russian history? Nobody’s confirming. Nobody has to. The silence tells you everything. And this isn’t the first time. Just weeks ago, another American politician, another pedophile, exposed on Russian television. Barack Obama will never again be able to set foot on Russian soil. Now it’s Hillary’s turn. A pattern. A message. Someone is sending a warning to the West’s compromised elite, and Putin isn’t stopping it. He’s fanning the flames. Because this isn’t some overnight scandal. Putin has been building this case for years. Years of files. Years of witnesses. Years of evidence the West prayed would never see daylight. And now? He’s done hiding it. His recent remarks make one thing crystal clear: Hillary Clinton and the network around her are in his crosshairs. The elite pedophile machine. The whole demonic apparatus. Putin calls it a spiritual war. He says the West has been sleepwalking into a séance: opening doors that should never be opened, feeding the darkest forces in the universe. Forces that are now out of control… and tearing everything down. The gloves are off. The evidence is out. It’s radioactive. And according to Hillary’s Most Wanted listing, people are being killed to keep it buried.
Seriously? From the party that locked businesses out, closed churches, and shut people in their homes?
As midterm campaigns accelerate and disillusionment with Trump’s domestic and foreign policies widens, a stark scenario emerges: America faces a perilous inflection point demanding immediate action before democratic erosion becomes irreversible
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