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This Week in Dystopia: The Promise & Perils of Democracy is a new podcast hosted by Christopher Robichaud, Harvard Kennedy School Senior Lecturer. A podcast of politics, theory, and pop cult...

When HBO series Watchmen premiered in October 2019, the show—a dramatically different take on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s original comic b...

Chris Lebron, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, returns to talk about the HBO TV series based on the 1980s comi...

We kick off season three of This Week in Dystopia with a discussion of The Joker. From the DC Comics’ character to Heath Ledger and then Joa...

When Beyoncé gives you Lemonade , make a reader (and a podcast episode). We close out season 2 of This Week in Dystopia with a discussion of...

Despite the persistent threat of video game domination, board games are still here and gaining popularity. And people aren't just dusting of...

The devil may be in the details, but Satan also has a home in Salem Massachusetts, the headquarters of the Satanic Temple. The Temple, both...

Winter is here. Sunday, April 14th, 17.4 million viewers tuned in to watch the battle for the Iron Throne continue when the final season of...

Baseball has long been called America's pastime, but some feel the pastime is just that, past. Do conversations happening in and around the...

🚨 SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't already seen Us , listen at the peril of your movie-going experience. Better yet, go see the film and come...

The theatre has influenced political thought since at least the days of the Athenian Democracy. Today, the tradition of theatre as a medium...

From the moment your alarm goes off until your head hits the pillow at night, fitness is in your face. During the day, most of us will eithe...

🚨 SPOILER ALERT: Host Chris Robichaud has already seen this movie (twice!) and the episode contains spoilers. If you haven't already seen C...

In episode 20, we asked, can you keep politics out of football? The answer was a resounding no. Not only are politics a part of contemporary...

This week, host Chris Robichaud sits down with author, scholar, and executive producer Tananarive Due to talk about the complicated relation...

The Grammys have been criticized for lacking diversity and not giving hip-hop artists their due. This year, Donald Glover, also known as Chi...

Are comic books just for kids? Is there more to pop culture then pure entertainment? I think you know our answer. Tune in to hear host Chris...

In advance of Super Bowl LIII, tune in to hear host Christopher Robichaud in conversation with Mark Leibovich, Chief National correspondent...

On Tuesday, March 20th, the Institute of Politics hosted a conversation with students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School titled, “#NE...

Gun rights have dominated headlines the past two weeks. This isn’t the first time that debate around gun control has erupted following a mas...

New ways of governing, policy, protests, and more have been introduced across the globe for centuries to try and curb inequality. So, what a...

Do we need to say more than Black Panther? Okay, maybe. Black Panther, the latest film in the Marvel universe, has been met with such excite...

Idiocracy, an over a decade-old movie, is set in a world where corporations have taken over, the population’s IQ has declined dramatically,...

Political parties and campaigns are a critical part of American democracy. Our parties are complicated, multi-faceted, and at times, downrig...

What rights do immigrants have? Did President Obama open the door for President Trump’s travel ban by instituting Deferred Action for Childh...

Do dystopian societies require a bad good guy? Why do we love superheroes who morals are all shades of grey? Comic fans, this one is for you...

Misogyny is hard to spell but much easier to find in modern politics and society. How do you define misogyny? What’s the difference between...

Heralded by cries of “repeal and replace” from a party with a legislative majority, it was clear that going into 2017 the Affordable Care Ac...

Happy Holidays from This Week in Dystopia! ’Tis the season for gifts, holiday cheer, and divisive arguments about the role of religion in Am...

It’s been over a year since the 2016 election. Campaigning has concluded, ballots have been cast, and the results are in. Despite this final...

Recent events have engendered a multitude of questions about the white nationalist movement. What draws people to the movement? Have social...

Join host Christopher Robichaud in his office as he sits down with Claire Wardle and Hossein Derakhshan to discuss 2017’s Word of the Year,...

Former Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) sat down with host Christopher Robichaud to discuss the choices and constraints he faced during the pa...

Happy Halloween from This Week in Dystopia. In a spooky episode host Christopher Robichaud illustrates what zombie apocalypse stories have t...

Nicole Hemmer, Assistant Professor in Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, joins host Christopher Robichaud f...

Host Christopher Robichaud sits down with Julia Minson, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, to discuss her resea...

In the second episode of This Week in Democracy host Chris Robichaud tunes into a conversation about whether or not democracies around the w...

In the first episode of This Week in Dystopia host Christopher Robichaud introduces the series and answers the question, why is this series...