Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid A. Messenger, "Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain" (LSU Press, 2014)
Episode 1464
In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain decided to stay rather than return to a defeated …
1 year, 7 months ago
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 228
The U.S. government's decades-long "war on drugs" is increasingly recognized as a moral travesty as well as a policy failure. The criminalization of …
1 year, 7 months ago
Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg and Hélène Tigroudja, "Women’s Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016)
Episode 4
Despite global undertakings to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights, culture, traditional practices and religion are widely used to discrimin…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jean-Denis Mouton and Péter Kovács. "The Concept of Citizenship in International Law" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2018)
Episode 3
Several trends justify why it is worth analysing the concept of citizenship in international law. On the one hand, human mobility enhanced in the las…
1 year, 7 months ago
Alexander Sasha Kondakov, "Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia" (UCL Press, 2022)
Episode 274
Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia (UCL Press, 2022) by Alexander Sasha Kondakov uncovers techniques of powe…
1 year, 7 months ago
Francine Banner, "Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 227
Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Francine Banner is a fascinating cultural…
1 year, 7 months ago
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Episode 144
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism h…
1 year, 7 months ago
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
Episode 223
Today’s book is: Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit (U Chicago Press, 2024), by Dr. Robin Bernstein, whi…
1 year, 7 months ago
Stefanie Coché, "Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the "Third Reich," the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941-1963" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 161
Stefanie Coché's Psychiatric Institutions and Society: the Practice of Psychiatric Commital in the “Third Reich,” the Democratic Republic of Germany,…
1 year, 7 months ago
Michael Willrich, "American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2023)
Episode 266
In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or pr…
1 year, 7 months ago