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Back to SearchStephanie Wolfe and Matthew Kane, "In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 175
Stephanie Wolfe and Matthew Kane's In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda (Routledge, 2023) brings together scholars and practit…
3 years ago
Jane Lasonder, "Red Alert: The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking" (Scholten Uitgeverij BV, 2016)
Episode 32
We love the tradition of the Amsterdam red light district, where many women stand in the windows in their underwear. Busloads of tourists and school …
3 years ago
Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Episode 180
Professor Jonathan Herring makes an argument that suicidal people have a right to be protected from committing suicide, and that the state should be …
3 years ago
Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 180
"Why do we think about some practices as work, and not others? Why do we classify certain capacities as economically valuable skills, and others as i…
3 years ago
Lisa Hajjar, "The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 43
The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture (University of California Press, 2022) by Dr. Lisa Hajjar examines how hundreds of lawyers mo…
3 years ago
Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Episode 65
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Henry Holt, 2023) is the inside story of a worldwide investig…
3 years ago
Andrea G. McDowell, "We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 121
When miners arrived in California seeking their fortune during the gold rush of the 1840s and early 1850s, they encountered a place with few existing…
3 years ago
Women and the History of the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
Episode 22
In this episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Sarah Carter on her book Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provin…
3 years ago
Marvin N. Olasky and Leah Savas, "The Story of Abortion in America: A Street-Level History, 1652-2022" (Crossway, 2023)
Episode 163
Abortion is an issue like no other. Our attitudes towards it and how we define when life begins determine the very words we use when discussing abort…
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Benjamin Hoy, "A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 1297
A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada–United States Border across Indigenous Lands (Oxford UP, 2021), is the recipient of the AHA’s Albert Co…
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