Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 2 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 …
2 years, 3 months ago
Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg and Hélène Tigroudja, "Women’s Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016)
Season 2 Episode 4
Despite global undertakings to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights, culture, traditional practices and religion are widely used to discrimin…
2 years, 3 months ago
Jean-Denis Mouton and Péter Kovács. "The Concept of Citizenship in International Law" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2018)
Season 2 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…
2 years, 3 months ago
Alexander Sasha Kondakov, "Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia" (UCL Press, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 274
Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia (UCL Press, 2022) by Alexander Sasha Kondakov uncovers techniques of powe…
2 years, 3 months ago
Francine Banner, "Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems" (U California Press, 2024)
Season 2 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…
2 years, 3 months ago
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Season 2 Episode 144
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism h…
2 years, 3 months ago
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
Season 2 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…
2 years, 3 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)
Season 2 Episode 161
Stefanie Coché's Psychiatric Institutions and Society: the Practice of Psychiatric Commital in the “Third Reich,” the Democratic Republic of Germany,…
2 years, 3 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)
Season 2 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…
2 years, 3 months ago
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 369
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.
These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but what…
2 years, 3 months ago