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Marvin King

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#11 Christina Greer on City Politics, Black Voters...

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2026/06/02

Fordham Professor Christina Greer, author of How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams, and Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream, joins Civic Lens host Marvin King to discuss city politics, Black voters' relationship with the Republican Party, and why so many New Yorkers register for the Democratic Party primary. Also discussed: Lorrie Frasure-Yokley's Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs and Deed Theft

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#10 Seth Masket on the factions of the Republican Party

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2026/05/26

S⁠⁠eth Masket⁠⁠, University of Denver Professor of Political Science is on Substack at the @smotus report. He has also written several books on political parties and factions, including The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders, Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016-2020, and The Inevitable Party: Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How they Weaken Democracy. Also mentioned: Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right by Laura Fields and

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00:22:54

#9 David Meyer on Political Protest and How Leaders...

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2026/05/18

David S. Meyer, Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Urban Planning and Policy at the University of California, Irvine is the author or co-author of The Politics of Protest, The Resistance: The Dawn of the Anti-Trump Opposition Movement, and How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter.Also, mentioned: David Halberstam's The Children and https://filmfreeway.com/OccupyLosAngleshttps://filmfreeway.com/OccupyLosAngles.

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#8 Patrick Henry on the realities of working in...

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2026/05/11

Patrick Henry, Associate AD for Women's Basketball at the University of Memphis tells us what it takes to be an elite athletics administrator.

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#7 Jordan Cohen on Title IX in Higher Education

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2026/05/04

University of Mississippi Title IX Coordinator explains how a Title IX office operates in a higher education environment.

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#6 - Erin Buzuvis on Title IX and Gender Equity in...

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2026/04/28

Western New England Law Professor Erin Buzuvis provides a detailed examination of how the important changes that have resulted from Title IX, but also how the law still falls short of its authors' intentions. Also mentioned: Getting in the Game: Title IX and the Women's Sports Revolution by Deborah Brake.50 Years of Title IX: We’re Not Done Yet by the Women's Sports Foundation.

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#5 - Kathleen Thelen on core differences between...

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2026/04/24

Kathy Thelen is the Ford Professor of Political Science at MIT. Among her many publications, the former president of the American Political Science Association is the author of Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy; "Off-Balance: How US Courts Privilege Conservative Policy Outcomes," with Brian Highsmith and Maya Sen; and co-editor of The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power, with Jacob S. Hacker, Alexander

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#4 - Barry Lam on the value of discretion

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2026/04/10

Barry Lam, author of Fewer Rules, Better People: The Case for Discretion discusses how America's penchant for legalistic rule-making makes us all worse off. Show Notes: Hi-Phi NationMichael Lipsky: Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service.C. Thi Nguyen: The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

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#3 - Hannah Allen-King on Public Health and Gambling...

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2026/04/08

Dr. Hannah Allen-King is the Executive Director of the William Magee Institute for Student Well-being and Assistant Professor of Public Health at The University of Mississippi. She discusses the need for more research into problem gambling, especially for college students, and why it is considered a public health issue. Show Notes: Collegegambling.orgNational Council on Problem GamblingInternational Problem Gambling and Gaming Certification Organization

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#2 - Ron Rychlak on NIL

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2026/04/07

Ron Rychlak, Distinguished Professor of Law and Jamie L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government at the University of Mississippi School of Law Show Notes:O'Bannon v. NCAA (9th Circuit)NCAA v. Alston (Oyez)Extra Points: Commentary and analysis on the COLLEGE part of college sports.Berry and Lust's College Sports Law in a Nutshell"Current State of College Athletics After House v. NCAA" by Ron Rychlak in The Mississippi Lawyer, Fall 2025

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#1 - Chuck Ross on Free Agency

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2026/04/02

Chuck Ross, Professor of History and African American Studies at The University of Mississippi, discusses the important roles played by Marvin Miller, Curt Flood, and how free agency came to be.Show Notes:Review of John Helyar's The Lords of The Realm: The Real History of Baseball, available on Amazon.

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