The Civic Forum
Hosted by Rory Truex and Rory · Rory Truex
4.9from 51 ratings
- 36
- Episodes
- 23
- Transcribed
- 51
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About The Civic Forum
Because democracy needs a pod. Informed conversations on the most important issues facing democracy, in the US and elsewhere, hosted by Rory Truex, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
- Publisher
- Rory Truex
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Aug 2025
- Latest episode
- 27 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
23 of 36 episodes have a transcript.
27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Losing the War Is Helping Putin Win At Home | Seva Gunitsky (UToronto) and Sam Greene (King's College London)
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Trump and the Autocrats: Our New Global Disorder| Michael McFaul (Stanford, former US Ambassador to Russia)
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
A New Era or More of the Same? Debriefing the Trump-Xi Summit | Ryan Hass (Brookings)
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How Losing the War Is Helping Putin Win At Home | Seva Gunitsky (UToronto) and Sam Greene (King's College London)
Published 27 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So hopefully maybe Sam can tell us more about that. Sam, please. And for listeners, there are people who work on public opinion and authoritarianism and Sam is one of them. And it's a challenge for all of us who try to measure because we don't really know when people say they support a government or like a leader. […]
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- Seva Gunitsky
- Sam Greene
- Michael McFaul
- Ryan Hass
- Jill Dolan
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 27 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 24 ratings
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Who hosts The Civic Forum?
Rory Truex and Rory host the show. Published by Rory Truex.
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