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Back to SearchLyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
Episode 164
In Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods (Little, Brown Spark, 2022), Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the il…
3 years, 2 months ago
Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization
Episode 57
Economist, historian, and author Marc Levinson talks about his book, Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas …
3 years, 2 months ago
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
Episode 159
Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relativel…
3 years, 2 months ago
Renyi Hong, "Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 209
In Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life (Duke UP, 2022), Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being "passionate about your work" as an affect…
3 years, 2 months ago
Indra’s Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
Episode 143
We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding …
3 years, 2 months ago
Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World
Episode 141
America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities--Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others--increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutt…
3 years, 2 months ago
Vinod Thomas, "Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Episode 165
Vinod Thomas' book Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) presents essential insights on the interaction between…
3 years, 2 months ago
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
Episode 56
Katie Wells, a Postdoctoral Fritz Fellow with Georgetown University's Tech and Society Initiative, and Kafui Attoh, Associate Professor of Urban Stud…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
Episode 73
How much of US power is underground? We hear a lot about the US military assets used on land, on the sea, and in the air - but not much about what’s …
3 years, 2 months ago
Keren Winterford et al., "Reframing Aid: A Strengths-Based Approach for International Development" (Practical Action, 2023)
Episode 139
The practice of international development continues to change as more is understood about what works. A shift from a deficit or problem-solving appro…
3 years, 2 months ago