Paper Trails Podcast

The Therapeutic Potential of Ayahausca: An Amazonian Cure for PTSD in the West? Testimonies by veterans. FDA approved hallucinogenic trials. A new generation of psychology. An undergraduate thesis by Bailey at Indiana University South Bend.

Remembering Irish revolutionaries. Economic development in former conflict zones. The fiction of Tom McCarthy. The Soviet war cult. What four projects find in common in contentious American politics.

**Why the Supreme Court Must Eventually Say Whether the First Amendment Protects a Citizen’s Right to Record the Police**: An ACLU video. "Newsgathering" in Cuba. Tangled precedent and our right to privacy. A third year paper by **Michael at the University of Villanova School of Law. **

Developing Effective and Inclusive Aid Programs: Outreach to Female Refugees. The efficacy of NGOs. Discrepancies in male and female integration. Inclusive multicultural programming. An undergraduate senior thesis by Rachel at the University of Notre Dame.

The Predictive Power of Voter Expectations: A systematic comparison of expectations against conventional forecasting metrics in the 1952 - 2016 presidential elections. A signal to cut through partisan noise. Viable prognostication for presidential elections. Four notable exceptions. Why expectations matter. And how they can fail.

The Russia We Lost: The Role of the State in the Evolving Memory of the Second World War in Russia: Victory speeches. Imagined communities. Manipulated memory. Nick.

City and Peer Effects in the NFL: A functionally random draft. Modeling crime. Poverty prevention. Danny.

Being a Woman is Like Being Irish: The 1916 Uprising. The history of memory. Women then. Women now. Stronger together. Read Madelyn's articles: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hey-coach-immigrants-made-america-great_us_579ba838e4b00e7e269f2d4d https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/making-america-openly-sexist-again_us_58e58ff8e4b02c1f723459ff https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marching-for-my-mothers-promise_us_58828a03e4b0111ea60b95f7...

Paper Trails is calling for thesis and capstone project submissions for the Spring 2018 season. Who can come on the podcast? Anyone who has written or created a thesis, capstone or cumulative project, or who is still in school and in the process of finishing one. How do you apply? Through the pitchline at www.stradiography.com. Projects of all disciplines are welcome to submit, although in this political climate, we are particularly interested in hearing from political science majors and...

Experience, Buffering, Rendering: Salvaging the narrator. Systems of oppression. Psychoanalysis and art. Tom McCarthy.

Life Coaching Millennials: The inside out relationship. Overcoming the checklist. The power of good questions. http://martabrummell.com/

The Education of the American Voter: Producing ideologues. Protecting civil rights. Re-understanding partisanship.

The Rise of the Department Store in Paris: Three judges. Two cultures. The language of the law. Kaitlyn.

Economic Development in Former Conflict Zones: Bee hives. Venezuela. Tech consulting. Robert E. Lee. Matt. Read the articles Matt has authored at the Federalist here: http://thefederalist.com/author/matthewboomer/

On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A theology of hope. An unexpected path. Patience. Poetry. The Catholic Worker. Kyle.

Myth, Madness, Media in War and Bad Movies: What Paper Trails is about and why it all matters.

Faltering 'Frames of Exception': Feminist Contestations of Gendered Nationalism via Family Law and Artistic Productions in the Occupied West Bank. Gendered Politics. Georgetown Law. Kelly. Welcome to the Class of 2016 Legacy.

An interview with Madelyn Lugli, on her BA honors thesis from the University of Notre Dame department of History and Irish Studies, entitled, "Being a Woman is Like Being Irish."

An interview with Matthew Boomer, a senior in Political Science and History, on his thesis entitled, "Markets, States, and Violence: Examining Economic Development in Former Conflict Zones."