Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Disproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually gr…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
Episode 666
In the United States, the stoicism and importance of the “working class” is part of the national myth. The term is often used to conjure the contribu…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Nathan Munier, "Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade: The State, Resource Politics and Development" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
What happens when states experience a rapid increase in resource wealth? This book examines the significant diamond find in eastern Zimbabwe in 2006,…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Betty Boyd Caroli, "A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Betty Boyd Caroli's biography of Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch is the first full-length work on a seminal figure in the settlement house movement, which…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Colette Einfeld and Helen Sullivan, "How to Conduct Interpretive Research: Insights for Students and Researchers" (Edward Elgar, 2025)
What happens when an academic supervisor and their former student get together to write and edit a book on researching our social world? In How to Co…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Democracy and Its Inter-Connections
Former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla joins us for a conversation on global democratic backsliding, the role of the international community, …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Yunus Emre Ozigci, "NATO’s Meaning and Existence: Within the Interstate Intersubjectivity" (Vernon Press, 2026)
NATO’s Meaning and Existence: Within the Interstate Intersubjectivity (Vernon Press, 2026) a forthcoming 2026 book by Yunus Emre Ozigci, offers a dee…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Duncan Kelly, "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics (Oxford University Press, 2025) by Duncan Kelly is a new intellectua…
3 months ago
A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)
An expansive policy blueprint for meaningfully expanding the middle class for the first time in a century The US middle class was a product of state …
3 months ago
Michael J. Illuzzi, "Mending the Nation: Reclaiming We The People in a Populist Age" (UP of Kansas, 2025)
Political Scientist Michael Illuzzi has a fascinating new book on peoplehood in the United States, focusing on different political actors at differen…
3 months ago