Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMelissa B. Jacoby, "Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal" (New Press, 2024)
Episode 235
In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too many--a safety valve designed to pr…
1 year, 2 months ago
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
Episode 242
Today’s book is: Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials (Scribner, 2024), by Dr. Marion Gibson, which explores the global history of witch trials across …
1 year, 2 months ago
Mie Nakachi, "Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 288
Today I talked to Mie Nakachi about Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union (Oxford UP, 2021)
In 1920, the Soviet…
1 year, 2 months ago
Casey B. K. Dominguez, "Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers" (UP of Kansas, 2024)
Episode 752
The balance of power between the United States Congress and the president is particularly contested when it comes to war powers. The U.S. Constitutio…
1 year, 2 months ago
Richard J. Golsan, "Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France's First Trial for Crimes Against Humanity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Episode 1513
The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France's first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the "Butcher of Lyon"…
1 year, 2 months ago
Elyse Ona Singer, "Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 6
Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it on…
1 year, 2 months ago
Carrie N. Baker, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
Episode 284
In this compelling and informative interview, Carrie N. Baker discusses her newest book, Abortion Pills: US History and Politics (Amherst College Pre…
1 year, 3 months ago
Samantha A. Vortherms, "Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 106
The redistribution of political and economic rights is inherently unequal in autocratic societies. Autocrats routinely divide their populations into …
1 year, 3 months ago
Olivia Chilcote, "Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Episode 172
California has more unrecognized Native tribes than any other state - what led to this strange state of affairs, and what does this mean in practice?…
1 year, 3 months ago
Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan: Can He Really Do It?
Episode 155
Kitty Calavita, Chancellor’s Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, discuss the historical contex…
1 year, 3 months ago