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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John Paul II. A Legendary Pope 2022-01-15
How Democracies Die. Understanding the Insurrection of January 6, 2021 2022-01-06
Archbishop Desmond Tutu. the Moral Giant, who created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 2021-12-27
A Christmas Gift For You. The Story of The Rudolph Song. With Commentary 2021-12-24
Christmas Songs: Who? What? When? Where? Why? 2021-12-21
Vatican II: The Catholic Church Transformed 2021-12-17
Roe v Wade. The Mississippi Challenge Now Before the Supreme Court 2021-12-06
Closing a Church. A unique and significant Dearborn congregation doing things no other congregation was doing. 2021-11-22
From the Other Side of the Desk. Stories of Memorable Students. 2021-11-21
Biography of a Graveyard. What you can learn from 829 gravestones dating back 16 decades. 2021-11-14
Religion And Politics 11. Rerum Novarum. The 1891 Papal Encyclical that Pulled the Church into the Modern Age. 2021-11-07
Why Sexual Misconduct Investigations Go Wrong (Please read the introduction) 2021-10-28
General Colin Powell. Some Reflections and Thoughts 2021-10-18
Four Fun Stories. Two about Halloween 2021-10-15
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 22. Suppressing Dissent. 2021-10-12
Religion and Politics 10. How a Pope is Elected 2021-10-06
Why are Darwin and Evolution So Controversial and So Politicized in the US? 2021-09-29
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 21. The Palestinian Refugees of 1948. A Detailed Briefing. Third podcast of three on the Palestine War of 1948. 2021-09-22
Hannah Arendt. A Great Intellectual and a Controversial Woman. (Suggestion: Watch the movie, Read the book). 2021-09-16
September 11. Part II. After 9/11. A Talk to the Campus. A Talk to the Archdiocese. Reactions. 2021-09-09
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