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Back to SearchSamantha Power on Hannah Arendt and Human Rights
Episode 43
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, Samantha Power describes how Hannah Arendt influenced her thinking about politics and human rights. Power…
3 years, 7 months ago
Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth, "It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Episode 143
The protests of summer 2020 led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life …
3 years, 7 months ago
Exiled in America: About the Lives of Registered Sex Offenders
Episode 5
Before Darts and Letters there was a documentary series called Cited. This is one of those documentaries.
This episode is about the lives of sex offen…
3 years, 7 months ago
Prison Notebooks: Thinking (and Writing) about Incarceration
Episode 4
I can point you to mountains of research about prisons. I can also recommend at least a dozen Netflix documentaries, and highlight a handful of radic…
3 years, 7 months ago
Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson, "The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 110
For decades, immigration has been one of the most divisive, contentious topics in American politics. And for decades, urgent calls for its policy ref…
3 years, 7 months ago
Asim Qureshi, "I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Episode 276
In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more c…
3 years, 7 months ago
Willem Bart de Lint, "Blurring Intelligence Crime: A Critical Forensics" (Springer, 2022)
Episode 105
Willem Bart de Lint's Blurring Intelligence Crime: A Critical Forensics (Springer, 2022) explores the conundrum that political fortune is dependent b…
3 years, 7 months ago
Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Episode 324
From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century (Pegasus Books, 2022) is…
3 years, 8 months ago
B. J. Crawford and E. G. Waldman, "Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 162
Approximately half the population menstruates for a large portion of their lives, but the law is mostly silent about the topic. Until recently, most …
3 years, 8 months ago
Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
Episode 61
The last few years have brought to the fore the brilliant work of scientists as they worked to find a vaccine for Covid-19. But have you ever stopped…
3 years, 8 months ago