Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCharles L. Chavis Jr., "The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Episode 325
On December 4, 1931, a mob of white men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a twenty-three-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His …
3 years, 5 months ago
David Enrich, "Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Episode 166
In his acclaimed #1 bestseller Dark Towers, David Enrich presented the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financia…
3 years, 5 months ago
Timothy Paul Bowman, "You Will Never Be One of Us: A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism" (U of Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Episode 108
As the 1974 school year began, Wayne Woodward was a beloved high school teacher in a rural Texas town. By the following spring, he was embroiled in a…
3 years, 5 months ago
Rohan J. Alva, "Liberty After Freedom: A History of Article 21, Due Process and the Constitution of India" (Harper Collins, 2022)
Episode 160
Rohan J. Alva is a counsel practicing in the Supreme Court of India. He earned his LLM from Harvard Law School, where he focused on constitutional la…
3 years, 5 months ago
Brad Snyder, "Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 165
The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter--Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice--is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by …
3 years, 5 months ago
Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber, "Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story Behind Zobrest V. Catalina Foothills School District" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Episode 6
In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interp…
3 years, 5 months ago
Ethan Czuy Levine, "Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Episode 31
Science plays a substantial, though under-acknowledged, role in shaping popular understandings of rape. Statistical figures like “1 in 4 women have e…
3 years, 6 months ago
Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 5
The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality (U Minnesota Press, 2022) investigates the exclusion of and discrimination against disabled peo…
3 years, 6 months ago
Eric A. Posner, "How Antitrust Failed Workers" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 115
Today I talked to Eric Posner about his book How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford UP, 2021).
When anti-trust cases are brought forward, typically they…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis, "Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing" (Regnery, 2022)
Episode 148
According to political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson and journalist Alexandra DeSantis, abortion harms everything it touches. It is an act of lethal v…
3 years, 6 months ago