Ron Stockton was a professor of political science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn for 48 years. His specialty was non-western politics and political change. He taught classes on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Religion and Politics, the Politics of Revolution, Non-Western politics, and American politics. He also taught in the Honors Program, focusing upon foundational readings from the 18th and 19th centuries. He has an interest in religion and politics and in the role of religio-ethnic groups in the political system. The listener can anticipate talks on Arab-Americans, Jews, African-Americans, the Scots-Irish, and Evangelicals. He has lectured and written on American politics, public opinion, and voting behavior and on the role of religious organizations and ideologies in the political system. There will be occasional discussions of books and films that address serious issues. And he has lectured and published and even taught a class on gravestones, especially those of different ethnic and religious groups such as Muslims, African-Americans, Jews, and Native Americans. The goal of the podcast series is to provide analysis and commentary by a political scientist to explain and make accessible political, historical, and cultural developments in the United States and around the world, and to give the listener analytical tools to understand those developments. It is also to entertain the listener.

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Four Fun Stories, two about Halloween. Including the legendary story of Gato, King of the Cats. (A reposting, just for fun). 2022-10-30
Why the President's Party Loses Seats in the Off-Year Election, and why the pattern doesn't always hold. Political Analysis plus some comments. (How could I not?) 2022-10-26
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Palestinian Intifada of 1987-1993. Reposting. A parallel with Iran 2022? 2022-10-09
Is Christianity Polytheistic? Uh ... Interesting question. Sit down. Have some coffee. Let's Talk 2022-10-01
Eight Things About the Holocaust. Reposting of a Podcast 2022-09-18
Kahan Commission Report on the Sabra and Shatilla Massacre: Reposting of an earlier podcast 2022-09-16
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Lebanon War of 1982. The War That Never Stopped 2022-09-10
Understanding the Americans. A Talk With Some Members of the German Bundestag. 2022-08-30
Why Kill Salman Rushdie Over a Book? A Reposting (but worth your time) 2022-08-13
Mark Twain's autobiography, and The Dog as Beautiful as a Girl 2022-07-31
Is Israel an Apartheid State? What does that term mean, and what difference would it make? 2022-07-16
Origins of Islam: Mohammed and the Koran 2022-07-08
Three Detroit Area Gravestones (of really interesting people). 2022-06-24
The Most Famous Public Opinion Study. How We Analyze Voting Behavior (and why people don't move around much). 2022-06-13
Memorial Day 2022: Reflections during a Difficult Time. . 2022-05-29
The Origins Of Public Opinion Research 2022-05-25
Is Roe v Wade Doomed? The Leaked Alito Decision 2022-05-09
Background to Islam: Not What You Think. 2022-05-07
Liberation Theology: How Individuals became radicalized. The cases of Archbishop Romero and Che Guevara 2022-04-24
Liberation Theology: The Political Background in Latin America, especially the role of US involvement in radicalizing the region. 2022-04-24
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