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Back to SearchKerstin Bree Carlson, "The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa" (Brookings Institution Press, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 179
Ever since World War II, the United Nations and other international actors have created laws, treaties, and institutions to punish perpetrators of ge…
2 years, 8 months ago
Calvin John Smiley, "Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition" (U California Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 21
In Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition (University of California Press, 2023), Calvin John Smiley explores the lives of people who we…
2 years, 8 months ago
Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Season 2 Episode 102
Until Jessica Hinchy’s latest book, Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), ther…
2 years, 9 months ago
Chrystin Ondersma, "Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice" (U California Press, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 173
American households have a debt problem. The problem is not, as often claimed, that Americans recklessly take on too much debt. The problem is that U…
2 years, 9 months ago
George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 60
George Fisher, the Judge John Crown Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, just released his new book Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial M…
2 years, 9 months ago
Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin, "Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy" (Hachette, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 209
In Among the Braves Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battles for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy (Hachette, 2023) Shibani Mahtani and Ti…
2 years, 9 months ago
Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 59
Most accounts of post-1950s political history tell the story of of the war on drugs as part of a racial system of social control of urban minority po…
2 years, 9 months ago
Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau, "Truth and Transparency: Undercover Investigations in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 73
Undercover investigators have been celebrated as critical conduits of political speech and essential protectors of transparency. They have also been …
2 years, 9 months ago
Caitlin Killian, "Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers" (Polity Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 702
The role of mother is often celebrated in the United States as the most important job in the world but Dr. Caitlin Killian argues that American mothe…
2 years, 9 months ago
Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 5
A provocative chronicle of how US public health has strayed from its liberal roots.
The Covid-19 response was a crucible of politics and public health…
2 years, 9 months ago