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Episode 106
In this episode of High Theory, Alex Hanna talks with Nathan Kim about Ethical AI. Their conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM series, whic…
3 years, 2 months ago
Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 303
By any reasonable metric, prisons as they exist in the United States and in many other countries are normatively unacceptable. What is the proper mor…
3 years, 2 months ago
Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022)
Episode 168
"History recalls Wallace’s inaugural address as a set piece in the larger drama of defending Southern segregation, which it was. But the speech was a…
3 years, 2 months ago
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) in Canada
Episode 48
Is medical assistance in dying, or MAID letting the government off the hook from providing what they should be providing? Should we respect people's …
3 years, 2 months ago
Mariëlle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Episode 217
How has digitalisation changed Russian politics? How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed Russia studies? What is special about Russia’s approach…
3 years, 2 months ago
Michael Ayers Trotti, "The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 46
Michael Ayers Trotti's The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion and Punishment in the American South (The University of North Carolina Press, 2022…
3 years, 2 months ago
Sandra Frimmel, "Art Judgements: Art on Trial in Russia After Perestroika" (Vernon Press, 2021)
Episode 215
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an unusually large number of court cases against artists and curators in Russia. Focusing on promine…
3 years, 2 months ago
Jane Freeland, "Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 43
In Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 (Oxford University Press, 2022), Jane Freeland traces the dev…
3 years, 2 months ago
Hagai Boas, "The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 87
This is the story of organ transplantation, told from the organ’s point of view.
Organs for transplantations come from two sources: living or post-mor…
3 years, 2 months ago
Danielle Keats Citron, "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 332
The boundary that once protected our intimate lives from outside interests is an artefact of the 20th century. In the 21st, we have embraced a vast a…
3 years, 2 months ago