Ultimate Failure Via Major Accomplishments – Julian E. Zelizer on the Paradoxes of Joe Biden’s Presidency
Julian E. Zelizer – editor of the new volume The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden. A First Historical Assessment – discusses the key accomplishments of Joe Biden’s presidency as well as the sources of his ultimate failure to fulfil his promise. He explores the historical origins of the Biden presidency, reflects on its foreign policy record, and considers the questions future historians will be debating.
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Revisiting Sloterdijk’s Out of the World: Freedom in an Age of Withdrawal?
In this light, we can grasp the core of Sloterdijk’s philosophical anthropology, which is that humans increasingly live “out of the world”, giving rise to a sort of [...]
18.03.2026
Values-based Realism and Rebalancing Power in Three Points
The title The Triangle of Power: Rebalancing the New World Order captures Finnish president Alexander Stubb’s view of the current balance of power in international politics, [...]
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Ultimate Failure Via Major Accomplishments – Julian E. Zelizer on the Paradoxes of Joe Biden’s Presidency
Julian E. Zelizer – editor of the new volume The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden. A First Historical Assessment – discusses the key accomplishments of Joe Biden’s presidency as well as the sources [...]
30.03.2026
Did Fear of Vampires Inspire Early Scientific Inquiry? A Discussion with Ádám Mézes
In our third podcast, we host Ádám Mézes, with whom we discuss the fascinating topic of vampire contagion in the Habsburg Empire and its broader impact on the history of science. As in the [...]