Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
Episode 206
There's a strong chance that chair you are sitting on was made from stolen lumber. In Tree Thieves: Crime And Survival In North America's Woods (Litt…
3 years, 3 months ago
Anita Guerrini, "Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Episode 41
Experimentation on animals—particularly humans—is often assumed to be a uniquely modern phenomenon. But the ideas and attitudes that encourage biolog…
3 years, 3 months ago
Jeffrey Bellin, "Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 144
The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches pe…
3 years, 3 months ago
Matthew Crain, "Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Episode 92
The contemporary internet's de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets us with eerily p…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Future of Data Control: A Discussion with Sarah Lamdan
Episode 39
A few big companies are selling information about us to governments and companies. But beyond a general sense of unease, what do we need to know abou…
3 years, 3 months ago
Igor Shoikhedbrod, "Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Episode 156
Is Marx relevant today, after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe? Is Marx’s political theory compatible with individual rights? You will be …
3 years, 3 months ago
Bruce W. Dearstyne, "The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Episode 203
During the early twentieth century New York State, with its settlement houses, muckraking journalists, labor unions and national political leaders li…
3 years, 4 months ago
U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?
Episode 155
In March 2022 the U.S. government announced its determination that genocide was committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya communities in Mya…
3 years, 4 months ago
Arvind Narrain, "India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance" (Context, 2022)
Episode 166
Arvind Narrain is a lawyer and writer based in Bangalore. He is visiting faculty at the School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University. He i…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Future of Rules: A Discussion with Lorraine Daston
Episode 38
Which rules do we obey and which ones can we find a way around? What distinctions can be drawn between rules, models to be emulated and algorithms. L…
3 years, 4 months ago