Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchClimate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse with Laurie Parsons (LSE Press, 2026)
Episode 2147
Climate action is at an impasse. Its political opponents are stronger than ever, its advocates powerless. Almost every major government and corporat…
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What Is Life Worth? New Edition with Reflections 25 Years After 9/11 with Kenneth R. Feinberg (Rivertowns, 2026)
Episode 2148
Kenneth R. Feinberg's What is Life Worth? New Edition with Reflections 25 Years After 9/11 (Rivertown Books, 2026) shares the story that inspired the…
2 days, 9 hours ago
Sara C Bronin, "Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 2145
For those concerned with how city hall can shape the look and feel of a neighborhood, the mere mention of zoning may invite denunciation of zoning pr…
3 days, 9 hours ago
Marion Nestle and Lisa Sutherland, "Sugar Coated: Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America's Favorite Breakfast Food" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 2146
In Sugar Coated: Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America's Favorite Breakfast Food (U California Press, 2026), world-renowned food politics exper…
3 days, 9 hours ago
Damian White and Nicholas Pevzner, "Designing the Just Transition: Design-Politics, Labor, and the Battle for Post-Carbon Futures" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Episode 2144
Environmental politics is clearly at an impasse, increasingly foreclosed by a fragmenting elite consensus on climate change, an escalating populist b…
1 week ago
Conor Harrison, "Brokers of Power: The Financialization of the US Electricity System" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Episode 67
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 week, 1 day ago
Brian L. Porto, "Twin States, Different Paths: The Politics of New Hampshire and Vermont" (U Mass Press, 2026)
Episode 2143
At first glance, New Hampshire and Vermont seem like mirror images. Separated only by the Connecticut River, the oft-termed "Twin States" share a com…
1 week, 1 day ago
Billy Fleming, "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions" (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2026)
Episode 2142
What would a postcarbon future look like? What would it take to build and maintain a more just, regenerative world? How would it feel to live—and to …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
R. Joshua Scannell, "The Carceral Surround" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Episode 2141
As law enforcement agencies deploy increasingly advanced technologies to suppress dissent, hunt migrants, and target marginalized communities, The Ca…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North " (FSG, 2025)
Episode 2140
Winner of the MAAH Stone Book Award Winner of the 2025 Avern Cohn Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2025, A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 selecti…
2 weeks, 4 days ago