Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)
Episode 138
Guns hold a complex place in American culture. Over 30,000 Americans die each year from gun violence, and guns are intimately connected to issues of …
3 years, 8 months ago
Steven K. Green, "Separating Church and State: A History" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 1218
In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson distilled a leading idea in the early American republic and wrote of a wall of separation between church and stat…
3 years, 9 months ago
Gian Maria Campedelli, "Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 6
Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads (Routledge, 2022) reviews the roots of the intersection between machine learni…
3 years, 9 months ago
Menachem Kaiser, "Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure" (Mariner Books, 2021)
Episode 295
Menachem Kaiser's book Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure (Mariner Books, 2021) is set in motion when the author takes up his Hol…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ralph Hope, "The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present" (Oneworld, 2021)
Episode 128
By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. For forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in …
3 years, 9 months ago
Risa Brooks et al., "Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 607
Most existing literature regarding civil-military relations in the United States references either the Cold War or post-Cold War era, leaving a signi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner, "Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 104
Cannabis "legalization" hasn't lived up to the hype. Across North America, investors are reeling, tax collections are below projections, and people a…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mario Daniels and John Krige, "Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 1213
Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press, 2022) is the first historical study of export control reg…
3 years, 9 months ago
Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 37
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge U…
3 years, 9 months ago
Audrey L. Comstock, "Committed to Rights: UN Human Rights Treaties and Legal Paths for Commitment and Compliance" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 609
International treaties are the primary means for codifying global human rights standards. However, nation-states are able to make their own choices i…
3 years, 9 months ago