Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMélissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
Episode 106
In the 1960s and 1970s, the exposure of Big Tobacco’s aggressive lobbying and internal efforts to obscure science showcasing the harmful effects of s…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mathew Lawrence and Adrienne Buller, "Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 126
Adrienne Buller (The Value of a Whale) and Mathew Lawrence (Planet on Fire) have penned a radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic p…
3 years, 9 months ago
Postscript: How the Supreme Court Overturned a Century-Old Gun Law…and Changed American Jurisprudence
Episode 14
Today’s Postscript (a special series that allows scholars to comment on pressing contemporary issues) focuses on the US Supreme Court and the Second …
3 years, 9 months ago
Stephen Hewer. "Beyond Exclusion: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland" (Brepols, 2022)
Episode 24
Beyond Exclusion: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland (Brepols, 2022) offers a fresh look at the legal…
3 years, 9 months ago
Christopher Witko, "Hijacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021)
Episode 617
How do competing interests shape public policy? Why are the economic interests and priorities of lower-, working-, and middle-class Americans often n…
3 years, 9 months ago
Jamie Ducharme, "Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul" (Henry Holt, 2021)
Episode 2
It began with a smoke break. James Monsees and Adam Bowen were two ambitious graduate students at Stanford, and in between puffs after class they dre…
3 years, 9 months ago
Jeffrey S. Sutton, "Who Decides?: States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 163
Everything in law and politics, including individual rights, comes back to divisions of power and the evergreen question: Who decides? Who wins the d…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ronald Meester and Klaas Slooten, "Probability and Forensic Evidence: Theory, Philosophy, and Applications" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 74
In Probability and Forensic Evidence: Theory, Philosophy, and Applications (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ronald Meester and Klaas Slooten address the role of…
3 years, 9 months ago
John Callow, "The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 1246
On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its a…
3 years, 10 months ago
Corey Robin, "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
Episode 219
Most people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, and he almost never speaks from the bench. He…
3 years, 10 months ago