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Back to SearchThe Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
Episode 35
Before Remdesivir and Hydroxycloroquin there was Tamiflu.
To prepare for Swine Flu and Bird Flu, governments spent billions stockpiling this drug call…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ken MacLean, "Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 111
Though human rights monitors talk of fact-finding missions and reports, human rights facts are, like all social phenomena, not in fact found but made…
3 years, 6 months ago
Kelly McCormick, "The Problem of Blame: Making Sense of Moral Anger" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 293
Blame seems both morally necessary and morally dicey. Necessary, because it appears to be a central part of holding others to account for wrongdoing.…
3 years, 6 months ago
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 163
One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speech, hate speech, disinformation, propaganda campaigns, incitement o…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Heroin Clinic
Episode 34
At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is…
3 years, 6 months ago
Leslie Kern, "Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 310
What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of…
3 years, 6 months ago
This is Your Brain on Trial
Episode 33
Imagine reading or watching The Minority Report and thinking of that as a model for the criminal justice system. Well, plenty of forensic types are d…
3 years, 6 months ago
Property Technology
Episode 93
In this episode of High Theory, Erin McElroy talks with Nathan Kim about Property Technology. This is the first episode in the High Theory in STEM se…
3 years, 6 months ago
Jeffrey D. Pugh, "The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 39
With much existing research on migration focusing on the Global North—like Europe and the US—Pugh’s The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and…
3 years, 6 months ago
Brian DeMare, "Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 38
Using rare grassroots archives, Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China (Stanford UP, 2022) dives deep into fo…
3 years, 6 months ago