Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchData Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census with danah boyd (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Episode 1551
In this episode, danah discusses proposed changes to the census that could lead to population undercounts, distort congressional apportionment, and h…
6 hours ago
The Fog of Accountability: How Institutions Keep Voters from Holding Their Local Governments Accountable with Justin de Benedictis-Kessner (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Episode 1550
In the United States, hundreds of thousands of elected and appointed officials serve more than 50,000 subnational governments, making important decis…
1 day, 6 hours ago
Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs with Michael Doan (AK Press, 2026)
Episode 1549
In Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs (AK Press, 2026), Michael Doan explores the work and legacy of James …
2 days, 6 hours ago
In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World with Elizabeth F. S. Roberts (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 1548
Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addiction: her sister’s destructive alcoholism and dependency on prescription drugs, her m…
3 days, 6 hours ago
From Blood to Ink: How the Press Covered the Gettysburg Campaign with Matthew J. Larson (U Georgia Press, 2026)
Episode 1547
The first book ever on how the press covered the Gettysburg campaign, From Blood to Ink: How the Press Covered the Gettysburg Campaign (U Georgia Pre…
4 days, 6 hours ago
Radioactive Governance: The Politics of Revitalization in Post-Fukushima Japan with Maxime Polleri (NYU Press, 2026)
Episode 1546
The 2011 Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear disaster was the worst industrial nuclear catastrophe to hit Japan. It was a major event, rated at the highest se…
5 days, 6 hours ago
Outed: LBJ’s Confidant and the Arrest that Transformed a Presidency with Timothy Stewart-Winter (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Episode 1545
Timothy Stewart-Winter joins Michael Stauch to discuss the arrest that transformed Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s longest-…
6 days, 6 hours ago
Fascists of the World, Unite?: A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s with Martin Kristoffer Hamre (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)
Episode 1544
Fascists of the World, Unite?: A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025) analyzes the ideas and forms of inter…
1 week ago
Reimagining Foreign Aid in a Changing Global Order with Mary-Collier Wilks (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 1543
What happens to foreign aid (and to women’s status) when the global development landscape shifts away from U.S. dominance? In this episode of Interna…
1 week, 1 day ago
Disability: A History of Resistance with David Turner (Random House, 2026)
Episode 1542
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