Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnthony Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Episode 317
It’s no secret that the United States has the most expansive prison system of any nation in the world. And the US carceral system overwhelmingly and …
3 years, 10 months ago
Fiona De Londras, "The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 156
The attacks of 9/11 changed the course of the global counter-terrorism order which has entrenched a system of global governance. This institutional c…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
Episode 10
Race is the subject of passionate and increasingly angry debate. But amidst all the talk of unconscious bias it’s an area into which many fear to tre…
3 years, 10 months ago
Rachel Hall Sternberg, "The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Episode 6
Although the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European humane d…
3 years, 10 months ago
Florence Ashley, "Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis" (U British Columbia Press, 2022)
Episode 28
NB: This interview contains explicit language.In Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis (U British Columbia Press, 202…
3 years, 10 months ago
Suzanne E. Scoggins, "Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 598
China has the reputation for being a strong security state. After the pro-democracy Tiananmen protests, the Chinese government moved to increase stab…
3 years, 10 months ago
David P. Forsythe, "Advanced Introduction to the Politics of International Human Rights" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
Episode 27
“Human rights in public policy are constructed by diplomats and politicians in an international legislative process, not discovered amongst the cloud…
3 years, 10 months ago
Charles Alistair McCrary, "Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 236
"Sincerely held religious belief" is now a common phrase in discussions of American religious freedom, from opinions handed down by the US Supreme Co…
3 years, 10 months ago
Michael L. Walker, "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 2
Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have …
3 years, 10 months ago
Clayton Howard, "The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac: The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Episode 94
"I don't care what people do in their bedroom, but do they need to flaunt it?" This sentiment is a common refrain in American culture and politics wh…
3 years, 10 months ago