Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCode of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City with Elijah Anderson (Norton, 2026)
Episode 2128
Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal…
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In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World with Elizabeth F. S. Roberts (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 2119
Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addiction: her sister’s destructive alcoholism and dependency on prescription drugs, her m…
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Carceral Utopia: A Global History of Model Prisons with Gregory Salle (Polity, 2026)
Episode 2121
What underpins the legitimacy of the prison system in the twenty-first century? Despite numerous challenges and setbacks, there is still a widespread…
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Wound Archive with Anna Veprinksa (Gordon Hill Press/The Porcupine's Quill, 2026)
Episode 2130
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Anna Veprinksa about her book of poetry, Wound Archive (Gordon Hill Press/The Porcupine's Quill,…
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AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex with Anthony King (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 2131
Will artificial intelligence soon be fighting our wars for us? Could a machine ever command an army? Anthony King is skeptical. In AI, Automation, an…
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The Expanded Editions of Elie Wiesel with Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg and Ariel Burger
Episode 2134
In this latest Books for Better Understanding video from Notre Dame Press, Jake Kildoo facilitates a conversation between Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenbe…
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Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka with Vivian Y Choi (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 2133
In Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka (Duke UP, 2025), Vivian Y. Choi examines how the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami fostered new f…
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Bullet Holes with Norrin M Ripsman (Next Chapter, 2026)
Episode 2124
Norrin M. Ripsman (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1997) is the Monroe J. Rathbone Distinguished Professor of International Relations at Lehigh Un…
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A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity with Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche (Cornell UP, 2026)
Episode 2125
A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity (Cornell UP, 2026) focuses on the Protestant connection linking three…
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Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II with Tejasvi Nagaraja (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
Episode 2126
Tejasvi Nagaraja joins Michael Stauch to talk about Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II (U Pennsylva…
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