Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States with Steven Sarson (U Virginia Press, 2025)
Season 2 Episode 1482
How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning Thomas Jefferson chose his words carefully. Few co…
6 hours ago
Carceral Utopia: A Global History of Model Prisons with Gregory Salle (Polity, 2026)
Season 2 Episode 1480
What underpins the legitimacy of the prison system in the twenty-first century? Despite numerous challenges and setbacks, there is still a widespread…
3 days, 6 hours ago
Human Rights in Psychiatry: Prospects and Dilemmas of Abolishing Coercion in Mental Health Care with Dirk Richter (Springer, 2025)
Season 2 Episode 1478
In Human Rights in Psychiatry: Prospects and Dilemmas of Abolishing Coercion in Mental Health Care (Springer, 2025), Professor Dirk Richter describes…
6 days, 6 hours ago
Terror, Torture and State Violence in Colonial India, with Deana Heath, hosted by Salman Sayyid and Claudia Radiven
Season 2 Episode 1476
In this episode, Salman Sayyid and Claudia Radiven were joined by Deana Heath to discuss her work Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colo…
6 days, 6 hours ago
Forgive Us Our Debts: How Black Churches Use Bankruptcy to Survive with Pamela Foohey (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Season 2 Episode 1477
When American churches face financial difficulties, a disproportionately high number of Black churches reorganize under chapter 11 bankruptcy. There …
6 days, 6 hours ago
Offshore Oildom: America’s Energy Expansion into the Ocean with Tyler Priest (LSU Press, 2026)
Season 2 Episode 1475
Offshore Oildom: America’s Energy Expansion into the Ocean (LSU Press, 2026) tells the riveting story of the United States’ quest to secure the oil r…
1 week ago
Justice Was Her Calling: The Fierce and Fascinating Life of Dorothy Kenyon with Jennifer L. Brinkley (U California Press, 2026)
Season 2 Episode 1479
Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down sex discrimination, Dorothy Kenyon drew the legal blueprint. Justice Was Her Ca…
1 week ago
Disability: A History of Resistance with David Turner (Random House, 2026)
Season 2 Episode 1474
Despite there being more than 16 million disabled people in the UK today, disability rarely features in mainstream accounts of our past. That absence…
1 week, 2 days ago
Punishment: Behind Japanese Military Brutality with Danny Orbach (Hurst, 2026)
Season 2 Episode 1473
Why was the Japanese Army so brutal before and during World War Two? This haunting question anchors a sweeping investigation into the moral universe …
1 week, 4 days ago
Governance by Emulation: The Oversight Board, the Digital Services Act, and the Struggle for Platform Accountability with Moritz A. Schramm (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Season 2 Episode 1472
Social media giants like Meta and transnational regulators such as the European Union are transforming private governance by creatively emulating pu…
2 weeks, 1 day ago