Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMegan MacKenzie, "Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 311
Sexual violence is a significant problem within many Western militaries. Despite international attention to the issue and global #MeToo and #TimesUp …
3 years, 1 month ago
Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 110
The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence (NYU Press, 2023) by Dr. Diana Rickard examines how serialized …
3 years, 1 month ago
David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)
Season 2 Episode 113
Recall This Book first heard from the sociologist of American racism David Cunningham in Episode 36 Policing and White Power. Less than a week after …
3 years, 1 month ago
Valentina Capurri, "Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases And/Or Disabilities" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Season 2 Episode 33
Valentina Capurri's book Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Disease…
3 years, 1 month ago
David B. Wong, "Moral Relativism and Pluralism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 195
Today I talked to David B. Wong about his book Moral Relativism and Pluralism (Cambridge UP, 2023).
The argument for metaethical relativism--the view …
3 years, 1 month ago
Beverley Chalmers, "Child Sex Abuse: Power, Profit, Perversion" (Grosvenor House, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 37
Children of all ages are abused in every country in the world, by members of every society, culture, religion, and socio-economic class. About 120 mi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Anthony B. Sanders, "Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 197
Listing every right that a constitution should protect is hard. American constitution drafters often list a few famous rights such as freedom of spee…
3 years, 1 month ago
A Better Way to Buy Books
Season 2 Episode 109
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alrea…
3 years, 1 month ago
Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Season 2 Episode 49
The concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. Aleksandra Pfau, Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives…
3 years, 1 month ago
Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
Season 2 Episode 22
In 2019, nearly two-thirds of domestic violence homicides in the United States were committed with a gun. On average, three women are killed by a cur…
3 years, 1 month ago