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Back to SearchDavid Churchill et al., "Historical Criminology" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 189
Historical Criminology (Routledge, 2022) breaks new ground by challenging researchers to question what we do, and why we do it. It draws out what cri…
2 years, 9 months ago
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 658
In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major…
2 years, 9 months ago
American Conservatism, Natural Law, and the Good Life: A Conversation with Robert P. George
Episode 52
What are American conservatives trying to conserve? What is Natural Law, and how can we know it? Is there a single "good life"? Robert P. George, Dir…
2 years, 9 months ago
Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 152
Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. For some, freedom meant the provision of life's necessities, those basic cond…
2 years, 9 months ago
America & Democracy Ep. 1: Robert I. Rotberg on Corruption
Episode 75
In this series of interviews from the MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping…
2 years, 9 months ago
Michelle Smirnova, "The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 15
In The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain (Duke UP, 2023), Michelle Smirnova argues that the ongoing opi…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Future of Guantanamo: A Discussion with James Connell
Episode 61
Will Guantanamo ever be closed down? Some people are still there – all these years after 9/11. So why are they still held and when will it end? James…
2 years, 10 months ago
Supurna Banerjee et al., "The Violent Domestic Law: Its Practice and Strategies of Survival" (Zubaan Academic, 2022)
Episode 188
In 2005, after considerable campaigning by women’s groups, the Indian government brought in an important new law, the Protection of Women from Domest…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ewelina U. Ochab and David Alton, "State Responses to Crimes of Genocide: What Went Wrong and How to Change It" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 188
In State Responses to Crimes of Genocide: What Went Wrong and How to Change it (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) Dr Ewelina U. Ochab and Lord Alton of Liver…
2 years, 10 months ago
Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi, "The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 182
Is libertarianism a progressive doctrine, or a reactionary one? Does libertarianism promise to liberate the poor and the marginalized from the yoke o…
2 years, 10 months ago