Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPaul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 184
Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate their users to prevent fraud, stop misinformation, and avoid violence. Yet, …
2 years, 3 months ago
Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 699
The United States has more guns than people and more gun violence than any Western democracy. Scholars in diverse fields interrogate why 21st century…
2 years, 3 months ago
Patricio Simonetto, "A Body of One's Own: A Trans History of Argentina" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Episode 58
As a trans history of Argentina, a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives, A Body of One’s Own:…
2 years, 3 months ago
Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma, "Addressing Modern Slavery" (UNSW Press, 2019)
Episode 208
Before you left your house this morning, chances are that you used products and consumed goods that were produced by modern slavery. From the coffee …
2 years, 3 months ago
Judith Surkis, "Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Episode 84
Judith Surkis's Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 (Cornell UP, 2019) traces the intersection of colonialism, law, land expropria…
2 years, 3 months ago
Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)
Episode 245
In State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime (Basic Books, 2023), political historian Dr. Sam Lebovic uncovers the…
2 years, 3 months ago
Eva van Roekel, "Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Episode 111
In Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Eva van Roekel grounds her research in phenomenological a…
2 years, 3 months ago
Rita Kesselring, "Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa" (Stanford UP, 2017)
Episode 58
Rita Kesselring’s important book Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Stanford University Press, 2017) seek…
2 years, 3 months ago
Steven Rogers, "Accountability in State Legislatures" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 698
Political Scientist Steven Rogers’ new book focuses on the deceptively complex question of how it is that voters do or don’t/can and can’t hold their…
2 years, 3 months ago
Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 75
Dr. Gary Shiffman’s book The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism (Cambridge UP, …
2 years, 3 months ago