Bill Hudson
Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics is a podcast of the Providence College Political Science Department. On the podcast, we provide analysis of political issues and events featuring the expertise of Providence College faculty members. Our episodes seek to offer in depth discussion of contemporary events that go beyond what typically is covered in the media. In particular, our guests draw on the most up to date research in political science and other fields to throw light on world events. Our episodes cover political events in all regions of the world and in the United States. The issues and events analyzed include elections, public policy, domestic and international crises, political ideologies, racial and ethnic relations, prominent political figures, and many other topics.
Appears in 61 Episodes
The Democratic Soul
Can political philosophy help us understand what ails American Democracy? Host Professor William Hudson explores this question with guest Assistant Professor of Polit...
American Conservative Thought: The Demise of “Fusionism”
This episode explores the tension within American conservative thought between Traditional Burkean conservatism and classical liberalism. Host William Hudson discusse...
The State of American Politics One Year After the 2020 Election
We apologize for the technical problem with the recent upload of this episode. Episode is now ready for your listening enjoyment. It is a good one! Host William Hudso...
The Demise of Local Newspapers and American Democracy
This episode of Beyond Your News Feed explores the fate of local news. Professors Andrea McDonnell and Matt Guardino of the Providence College Political Science Depart...
Budgetary Conflict: From Obama to Biden (via Trump)
For this episode, the tables are turned on Beyond Your News Feed’s normal host, Professor William Hudson. Guest host Professor Adam Myers interviews Hudson about fede...
Utopia
This episode takes up the topic of Utopia. What value do dreams of a better world have for understanding politics in the real world? What impact has utopian thinking...
Israel’s New Government
Providence College Associate Professor of Political Science Ruth Ben-Artzi joins host William Hudson to discuss the formation of a new Israeli government formed last s...
The Afghan Taliban Return to Power
Last week, after twenty years of conflict, the Afghanistan Taliban took effective control of the country. The rapid collapse of Afghan government forces clearly surpr...
The Climate Crisis
This special edition of Beyond Your News Feed analyzes last week’ report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Professor Casey Stevens, PC Political ...
Keith Morton on Youth Gangs, Violence, and Non-violence
This episode is a conversation with Professor Keith Morton of the Public and Community Service Department about his recent book “Getting Out: Youth Gangs, Violence, an...
History of the Providence College Political Science Department – 1970 - today
Listeners will find this a different kind of Beyond Your News Feed episode. Rather than analyze political events in the news as we usually do, this episode takes a de...
The Democratic Party After Trump
Donald Trump’s defeat in last November’s election spawned an eruption of press analyzes about the impact of the defeat on the Republican Party. Pundits have opined en...
Israeli Elections and Middle East politics
In this episode, Providence College Professor of Political Science Ruth Ben-Artzi talks with podcast host Professor William Hudson about the recent Israeli elections a...
Providence College Students and Election 2020
Today Bill Hudson, host of Beyond Your News Feed, interviewed six PC students: Megan Labbe, Sienna Strickland, Cole Dougherty, Carson Giles, Sofia Belen Carrillo, and ...
Analysis of 2020 Election
Professors Adam Myers, Matt Guardino, and Joe Cammarano, all of the PC political science department join host, William Hudson for a post-election analysis of the 2020 ...
Pre-election forecast
Professors Adam Myers, Matt Guardino, and Joe Cammarano, all of the PC political science department join host, William Hudson to look at the state of the presidential ...
The Life and Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In this episode, Professors Abigail Brooks, Director of PCs Women’s Studies Program, and Paul Herron, the PC Political Science Department’s Supreme Court expert, join ...
Senate Elections
On today’s episode, I was joined by Professor Adam Myers to discuss the 2020 races for the US Senate. With more Republican Senate seats at stake in this election, Dem...
Latinos and the 2020 Election
In this episode, Professor Tony Affigne, Professor of Political Science at Providence College takes a deep dive into survey data of Latinos
Climate Crisis
This summer the United States has experienced a number of severe weather events that seem related to climate warming. In the West, weeks of drought and high temperatu...