Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLee 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
Pathological: The Work of Dr. Charles Smith
Episode 32
Dr. Charles Smith performed autopsies at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, ON. The cops kept turning to him with new corpses, and he kept cl…
3 years, 9 months ago
Derailed: The Crisis of Forensic Expertise
Episode 31
When it comes to complex social problems, us “sensible” types turn to the experts, but what if they don’t actually know what they’re talking about? T…
3 years, 9 months ago
Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, "Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Episode 37
This comprehensive three-volume reference work collects and summarizes the wealth of information available in the field of transitional justice. Tran…
3 years, 9 months ago