Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)
Episode 387
Who is believed in our mediated world? In Believability: Sexual Violence, Media and the Politics of Doubt (Polity Press, 2023), Sarah Banet-Weiser, …
2 years, 8 months ago
Chris Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck)
Episode 108
Our Recall this Buck series, back in 2020 and 2021, explored the history of money, ranging from the earliest forms of labor IOUs to the modern world …
2 years, 8 months ago
Glen W. Olson and Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers, "Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Episode 35
Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) is unique among the many books about polyamory …
2 years, 8 months ago
The Future of Oceans: A Discussion with Chris Armstrong
Episode 68
Amidst all the talk of a green revolution what about the blue stuff? There are the seas that will wash over inhabited land, there’s the sea economy w…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo
Episode 79
It has been a momentous few weeks for the Supreme Court. What better time to discuss the Court's history and future? We are therefore launching our "…
2 years, 8 months ago
G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 191
For nearly two decades the renowned legal historian G. Edward White has been writing a multi-volume history of law in America. In his third and concl…
2 years, 8 months ago
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 663
Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and the Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, h…
2 years, 8 months ago
Helle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Episode 345
The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, S…
2 years, 8 months ago
Lynsey Black, "Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 46
Dr Lynsey Black is a lecturer in criminology, in the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University. She researches in the areas of gender and pu…
2 years, 8 months ago
Stephen Vladeck, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic" (Basic Books, 2023)
Episode 661
Many people are familiar with the United States Supreme Court’s merit docket. Each case follows detailed and professional proceedings that include fo…
2 years, 8 months ago