Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBenjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 56
Benjamin Y. Fong is author of the new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, which was just released in July,…
3 years, 2 months ago
Sara Beam, "Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Season 2 Episode 46
In 1686 in Geneva, a single mother named Jeanne Catherine Thomasset is charged with poisoning two young children: her own illegitimate daughter and t…
3 years, 2 months ago
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 194
Why do we protect free speech? What values does it serve? How has the Supreme Court interpreted the First Amendment? What has the Court gotten right …
3 years, 2 months ago
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
Season 2 Episode 19
Postscript invites scholars to react to contemporary political events and today’s podcast welcomes an expert on domestic violence and firearms law to…
3 years, 2 months ago
Sharon Thompson, "Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 61
This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, i…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor
Season 2 Episode 72
The expansion of space travel is much discussed but always seems subject to delay. Why is that and when will it happen on a much larger scale? Dougla…
3 years, 2 months ago