The Ballpark

The Ballpark is the LSE US Centre's regular podcast on the politics and policy of the United States. Through features and interviews with academics from the LSE and elsewhere, The Ballpark looks more closely into what's going on behind the headlines.

Recent Episodes
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The US and India–Pakistan tensions with Lisa Curtis
    Jun 18, 2025 – 00:34:30
  • LSE: The Ballpark | International Relations and Democracy in a Multipolar World
    Jun 3, 2025 – 00:34:28
  • LSE: The Ballpark | AI and intellectual property with Dr Bhamati Viswanathan
    May 21, 2025 – 00:38:09
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The state of American democracy with Professor Michael Latner
    May 5, 2025 – 00:34:28
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The Origins of the US-China Chip War with Dr John Minnich
    Apr 14, 2025 – 00:46:34
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Cultivating Democracy with Professor Mukulika Banerjee
    Apr 4, 2025 – 00:37:35
  • LSE: The Ballpark | US-China strategic stability with Dr Nicola Leveringhaus
    Mar 24, 2025 – 00:35:01
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Donald Trump and the far-right with Dr Rachel Blum
    Mar 10, 2025 – 00:37:31
  • LSE: The Ballpark | US-China relations under the new Trump administration with Professor Minxin Pei
    Feb 24, 2025 – 00:33:00
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The international order and US-China competition with Professor Shiping Tang
    Feb 10, 2025 – 00:43:55
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The Evolution of American Chip Controls on China with Dr Douglas Fuller
    Jan 6, 2025 – 00:32:56
  • LSE: The Ballpark | China and technology export controls with Michael Mastanduno and Jennifer Lind
    Dec 9, 2024 – 00:59:56
  • LSE: The Ballpark | America and the Asian 21st Century with Professor Kishore Mahbubani
    Nov 25, 2024 – 00:37:30
  • LSE: The Ballpark | China’s evolving approach to economic security with Professor Yeling Tan
    Nov 11, 2024 – 00:38:21
  • LSE: The Ballpark | AI and elections with Professor Lawrence Lessig
    Oct 28, 2024 – 00:46:11
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The West and the failure of democracy in the Middle East with Professor Fawaz Gerges
    Oct 18, 2024 – 00:38:48
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The social media spiral of silence with Nick Lewis
    Oct 14, 2024 – 00:31:24
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Why America Can’t Retrench with Dr Peter Harris
    Sep 30, 2024 – 00:56:46
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Faculty-student research collaborations with Evelyne Ong
    Sep 23, 2024 – 00:31:08
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Master’s students essay competition on capitalism
    Sep 16, 2024 – 00:42:54
  • LSE: The Ballpark | US Industrial Policy with Professor Nathan Lane
    Sep 2, 2024 – 00:40:22
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Black Immigrant Literacies with Professor Patriann Smith
    Aug 19, 2024 – 00:51:44
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Gray Areas with Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield
    Aug 5, 2024 – 00:33:40
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Parliamentary America with Professor Maxwell Stearns
    Jul 22, 2024 – 01:04:25
  • LSE: The Ballpark | US Nuclear Strategy in a Changing Indo-Pacific
    Jul 8, 2024 – 00:27:00
  • LSE: The Ballpark | US Foreign Policy and Power with Professor Jeff Legro
    Jun 24, 2024 – 00:47:04
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The media, truth, and reality with Brooke Gladstone
    Jun 10, 2024 – 00:46:31
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The Bomb with Fred Kaplan
    May 28, 2024 – 00:43:15
  • Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade | LSE Phelan US Centre Event
    May 24, 2024 – 01:29:30
  • Will the US remain the world’s superpower?
    May 15, 2024 – 00:35:05
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order with Professor John Owen
    May 13, 2024 – 01:07:42
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade with Dr Elizabeth Ingleson
    May 3, 2024 – 00:43:07
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The Insiders’ Game: How Elites Make War and Peace with Professor Elizabeth Saunders
    Apr 29, 2024 – 00:45:54
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy with Professor Jennifer Carlson
    Apr 15, 2024 – 01:11:33
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Latino Voters in the United States with Professor Jason Casellas
    Apr 1, 2024 – 00:34:37
  • LSE: The Ballpark | China Policy: The Limits of Transatlantic Convergence with Dr Mathieu Duchâtel
    Mar 18, 2024 – 00:28:04
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Super Tuesday 2024 results with Professor Jason Casellas
    Mar 7, 2024 – 00:25:23
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The Limits of Presidential Power with Professor Andrew Rudalevige
    Mar 4, 2024 – 00:55:46
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy with Dr Jordan Tama
    Feb 19, 2024 – 00:46:07
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The Brattle Group Report on Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery
    Feb 5, 2024 – 00:39:07
  • LSE: The Ballpark | The Future of US-China Competition with Dr Ashley Tellis
    Jan 22, 2024 – 00:27:59
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Why China Hawks are Wrong with Professor William Wohlforth
    Jan 17, 2024 – 00:41:33
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Rust Belt Union Blues with Professor Theda Skocpol
    Jan 4, 2024 – 00:44:19
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Master’s students essay competition on climate change
    Dec 11, 2023 – 00:38:34
  • LSE: The Ballpark | Religion over Race with Dr Amanda Sahar d’Urso and Dr Tabitha Bonilla
    Nov 29, 2023 – 00:40:47
  • LSE: The Ballpark | In Quest of a Shared Planet with Dr Naveeda Khan
    Nov 13, 2023 – 00:53:43
  • The Future of Capitalism Conference: Keynote Address: Rethinking Market Capitalism: Innovation and the Path to Shared Prosperity with Professor Daron Acemoglu
    Oct 27, 2023 – 01:31:33
  • The Future of Capitalism Conference: Panel 1 on Globalisation and the Return of Geopolitics
    Oct 27, 2023 – 01:44:09
  • The Future of Capitalism Conference: Panel 2 on Populism and Democratic Capitalism
    Oct 27, 2023 – 01:45:04
  • The Future of Capitalism Conference: Panel 3 on Global Governance in an Era of Anti-Globalism
    Oct 27, 2023 – 01:34:44
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