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Back to SearchLauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
Episode 95
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Lauren Bridges, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, about her work on t…
1 year, 6 months ago
Saleem H. Ali, "Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 29
The growing concern about global environmental change and human impacts on the planet has led to the emergence of a broad field of study on the 'sust…
1 year, 6 months ago
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 128
Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of farm machinery, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides are sold to farmers around the world. Althoug…
1 year, 6 months ago
China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the West
Episode 10
Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones analyze the global fallout after Donald Trump plunged America and the world into a trade war with China.…
1 year, 6 months ago
Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts
Episode 262
In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragme…
1 year, 6 months ago
Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 170
The secret insights of economics, translated for the rest of us. Should I buy or rent? Do I ask for a promotion? Should I tell people I’m pregnant? W…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ståle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 522
In Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World (Verso, 2024), Ståle Holgersen develops a conceptualization of 'crisis' that moves beyo…
1 year, 6 months ago
John Kay, "The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong" (Yale UP, 2025)
Episode 172
John Kay's The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong (Yale UP, 2025) is an accessible and ente…
1 year, 6 months ago
Populism, Power, and the Crisis of Globalism: A Conversation with Wolfgang Streeck
Episode 166
What explains the growing divide between elites and the broader public in democracies across Europe and the United States? In this episode of Interna…
1 year, 6 months ago
Walls, Warnings, and the War on Fentanyl: Peter Andreas on Trump’s Border Politics
Episode 165
In this episode of International Horizons, Peter Andreas, John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University and author of Border Games:…
1 year, 7 months ago