Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchForgive Us Our Debts: How Black Churches Use Bankruptcy to Survive with Pamela Foohey (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Episode 2030
When American churches face financial difficulties, a disproportionately high number of Black churches reorganize under chapter 11 bankruptcy. There …
23 hours ago
Art for War: Heritage Looting, Blood Antiquities, and the International Fight Against Terrorism Financing with Costanza Musu (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 2031
Understanding the world of art—particularly antiquities and archaeological artifacts—requires tracing how objects are removed from the ground, displa…
23 hours ago
On Converting Customer Service to a Higher Calling
Episode 2032
B. Joseph Pine II is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor to Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial startups, and …
1 day, 23 hours ago
Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work with Annie McClanahan (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 2029
Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work (Princeton UP, 2026) retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service ec…
5 days, 23 hours ago
Making Sense of China's Economy with Tao Wang and Michael Leger (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 2028
Making Sense of China's Economy (Routledge, 2023) untangles China’s complex economic structure, evolving issues and curious contradictions, and expla…
1 week, 3 days ago
The Hypocrisy Trap: How Changing What We Criticize Can Improve Our Lives with Michael Hallsworth (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 2027
In our increasingly distrusting and polarized world, accusations of hypocrisy are everywhere. But our attempts to stamp out hypocrisy may backfire, …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Smuggling Law: Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey's Kurdish Borderlands with Fırat Bozçalı (Stanford UP, 2025)
Episode 2026
The Kurdish-populated Wan/Van Province is a major smuggling hub between Turkey and Iran. Kurdish smugglers cross this 180-mile-long land border, tran…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism with Max Haiven (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 2025
A provocative examination of the ways our economy has been rigged by financialization, and the importance of games to our dangerous political moment.…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Joshua Specht, "Property Values: The Rise and Fall of the American Homeowner" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 2024
As affordability crises once limited to coastal cities have spread across the broader United States, the history of home and land ownership has never…
1 month ago
Conor Harrison, "Brokers of Power: The Financialization of the US Electricity System" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Episode 2023
The twenty-first century has seen major transformations in the US electricity sector—but while the use of coal power wanes and the need for renewable…
1 month ago