Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlison Ritter, "Drug Policy" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 40
Taking a multidisciplinary perspective (including public health, sociology, criminology, and political science amongst others), and using examples fr…
4 years, 3 months ago
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
Episode 562
All nations make rules -- through their constitutions, legislatures, bureaucratic practices – about who counts as a citizen. American by Birth examin…
4 years, 3 months ago
Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
Episode 268
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering our Cities (Bold Type Books, 2021) by Dr. Davarian Baldwin examines the political e…
4 years, 3 months ago
Postscript: SB-8, Dobbs, and the Politics of Abortion
Episode 10
In this Postscript, Susan Liebell and Lilly Goren review this morning’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Texas SB-8, the oral arguments in last week’s …
4 years, 3 months ago
William J. Morgan, "Sport and Moral Conflict: A Conventionalist Theory" (Temple UP, 2020)
Episode 205
Today we are joined by William J. Morgan, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California, and the author of Sport and Moral Conflict: A …
4 years, 3 months ago
James Shires, "The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East" (Hurst, 2021)
Episode 96
How has “cybersecurity” become a catch-all for everything that touches our digital world? In his new book, The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middl…
4 years, 3 months ago
Mia Bay, "Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 1114
Mobility has been central to the American identity—think of the automobile, the perceived freedom that comes with it, the open road—but Black America…
4 years, 3 months ago
Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 124
Throughout American history, lawmakers have limited the range of treatments available to patients, often with the backing of the medical establishmen…
4 years, 3 months ago
Mark Lawrence Schrad, "Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 39
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition (Oxford UP, 2021) is a unique retelling of the history of temperance and prohibition. Ra…
4 years, 3 months ago
J. Ryan Stackhouse, "Enemies of the People: Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 118
How do terror and popularity merge under a dictatorship? How did the Gestapo deal with critics of Nazism? Based on hundreds of secret police case fil…
4 years, 3 months ago