Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThinking About Police After Uvalde and the San Francisco Prosecutor Recall (w/ Alex Vitale)
Episode 155
Alex Vitale is one of the country's foremost experts on policing and criminal punishment. He is a professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the …
3 years, 8 months ago
Unearthing Queer History in America
Episode 154
Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator who unearths and preserves lost queer history. His books When Brooklyn Was Queer and The Women's House of Detention…
3 years, 8 months ago
Destroying Democracy in Education: The Case of New Orleans
Episode 153
Celeste Lay is a professor of political science at Tulane University and the author of Public Schools, Private Governance: Education Reform and Democ…
3 years, 8 months ago
How To Create Beautiful Places - A guide to the work of the late Christopher Alexander
Episode 152
The architect Christopher Alexander died recently. As the (surprisingly good) New York Times obituary described him:
[Alexander] believed that ordina…
3 years, 8 months ago
Current Affairs Book Club: The Novels of Sally Rooney
Episode 151
The bestselling novels of Sally Rooney have been subject to endless chatter. She has been hailed as the great millennial novelist by some, her work c…
3 years, 8 months ago
How Can We Plan a Viable Eco-Socialist Future That Everyone Likes?
Episode 150
One of the most fascinating and thought-provoking books of our time is Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Chang…
3 years, 8 months ago
Inside the Real World of Union Organizing
Episode 149
Daisy Pitkin has been in the labor movement for two decades and is the author of the new book On the Line A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women…
3 years, 8 months ago
How the War In Ukraine Can Be Ended
Episode 148
Anatol Lieven is an international relations expert and journalist who serves as a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. H…
3 years, 8 months ago
Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire”
Episode 147
Cryptocurrencies have been hyped in Super Bowl ads and promoted by everyone from Bill Clinton to Glenn Greenwald to Spike Lee to Larry David to New Y…
3 years, 8 months ago
How to Get Past the Need for Endless Economic Growth (w/ "Doughnut Economics" author Kate Raworth)
Episode 146
Kate Raworth is an economist at Oxford University whose book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist is a radical attem…
3 years, 9 months ago