web02.fireside.fm Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:18:02 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Circumscription - Episodes Tagged with “#Jdm” https://circumscription.fireside.fm/tags/%23jdm Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:00:00 -0400 Much of what gives life meaning, continuity, and order is the act of setting boundaries. Much of what gives you a clear sense of who and what you are is a clear sense of who and what you're not. This is a podcast about drawing such lines. It's about the processes involved in setting and maintaining boundaries, but also stretching and crossing them. We explore questions about boundaries and identity in three areas: religion, foreign policy, and constitutional law. en-us episodic Where We Set The Limits Michael Sargent Much of what gives life meaning, continuity, and order is the act of setting boundaries. Much of what gives you a clear sense of who and what you are is a clear sense of who and what you're not. This is a podcast about drawing such lines. It's about the processes involved in setting and maintaining boundaries, but also stretching and crossing them. We explore questions about boundaries and identity in three areas: religion, foreign policy, and constitutional law. no self, identity, religion, faith, constitutions, constitutional law, foreign policy Michael Sargent profsargent@gmail.com Episode 18: Political Animals https://circumscription.fireside.fm/18 c81ad542-1f87-40bf-bbcc-8f69c09f2792 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:00:00 -0400 Michael Sargent full Michael Sargent A conversation with political scientist Rose McDermott, about evolutionary theory, prospect theory, and smell, and their connections to politics. 50:07 no <p><a href="https://home.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/watson-faculty/rose-mcdermott" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Rose McDermott</a> is the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations at The Watson School of International and Public Affairs, at Brown University. She’s also a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. McDermott studies a variety of topics, including international relations, nuclear strategy, gender, the role of emotion in decision-making, and genetic contributions to political attitudes and behaviors.</p> <p>We discuss a range of topics, including (a) whether her work is more psychological political science or political psychology, (b) what her work has to say about the Russia-Ukraine war, and (c) what smell has to do with politics.</p> <p><strong>OTHER LINKS</strong><br> <a href="https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/volodymyrzelenskyunga2025.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--Volodymr Zelenskyy's 2025 address to the UN General Assemply (transcript and video)</a><br> <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12133" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"Assortative mating on ideology could operate through olfactory cues," (2014) by Rose McDermott, Dustin Tingley, &amp; Peter K. Hatemi, in the American Journal of Political Science</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tversky" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--Wikipedia entry on Amos Tversky</a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jervis" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--Wikipedia entry on Robert Jervis</a><br> <a href="https://heb.fas.harvard.edu/people/richard-w-wrangham" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--Richard Wrangham's Harvard online bio</a><br> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-07900-8.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"Drivers of female power in bonobos," (2025) by Martin Surbeck et al., in <em>Communications Biology</em></a><br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradwife" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--Wikipedia entry on the "tradwife"</a></p> <p><strong>MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license)</strong><br> --"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts<br> --"Afrikaans," by C. Scott<br> --"Belview," by C. Scott<br> --"Determinate," by C. Scott</p> <p>Special Guest: Rose McDermott.</p> politics, political psychology, olfaction, evolution, evolutionary psychology, prospect theory Rose McDermott is the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations at The Watson School of International and Public Affairs, at Brown University. She’s also a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. McDermott studies a variety of topics, including international relations, nuclear strategy, gender, the role of emotion in decision-making, and genetic contributions to political attitudes and behaviors.

We discuss a range of topics, including (a) whether her work is more psychological political science or political psychology, (b) what her work has to say about the Russia-Ukraine war, and (c) what smell has to do with politics.

OTHER LINKS
--Volodymr Zelenskyy's 2025 address to the UN General Assemply (transcript and video)
--"Assortative mating on ideology could operate through olfactory cues," (2014) by Rose McDermott, Dustin Tingley, & Peter K. Hatemi, in the American Journal of Political Science
--Wikipedia entry on Amos Tversky
--Wikipedia entry on Robert Jervis
--Richard Wrangham's Harvard online bio
--"Drivers of female power in bonobos," (2025) by Martin Surbeck et al., in Communications Biology
--Wikipedia entry on the "tradwife"

MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license)
--"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts
--"Afrikaans," by C. Scott
--"Belview," by C. Scott
--"Determinate," by C. Scott

Special Guest: Rose McDermott.

]]> Rose McDermott is the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations at The Watson School of International and Public Affairs, at Brown University. She’s also a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. McDermott studies a variety of topics, including international relations, nuclear strategy, gender, the role of emotion in decision-making, and genetic contributions to political attitudes and behaviors.

We discuss a range of topics, including (a) whether her work is more psychological political science or political psychology, (b) what her work has to say about the Russia-Ukraine war, and (c) what smell has to do with politics.

OTHER LINKS
--Volodymr Zelenskyy's 2025 address to the UN General Assemply (transcript and video)
--"Assortative mating on ideology could operate through olfactory cues," (2014) by Rose McDermott, Dustin Tingley, & Peter K. Hatemi, in the American Journal of Political Science
--Wikipedia entry on Amos Tversky
--Wikipedia entry on Robert Jervis
--Richard Wrangham's Harvard online bio
--"Drivers of female power in bonobos," (2025) by Martin Surbeck et al., in Communications Biology
--Wikipedia entry on the "tradwife"

MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license)
--"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts
--"Afrikaans," by C. Scott
--"Belview," by C. Scott
--"Determinate," by C. Scott

Special Guest: Rose McDermott.

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