Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCarceral Utopia: A Global History of Model Prisons with Gregory Salle (Polity, 2026)
Episode 3757
What underpins the legitimacy of the prison system in the twenty-first century? Despite numerous challenges and setbacks, there is still a widespread…
15 hours ago
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City with Elijah Anderson (Norton, 2026)
Episode 3759
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…
15 hours ago
Shared Sacred Sites in South Asia: Negotiating Coexistence and Belonging with Christophe Jaffrelot (Hurst, 2026)
Episode 3758
What can shared sacred sites tell us about religious coexistence in South Asia? Political scientist Christophe Jaffrelot joins Shreya Urvashi to disc…
1 day, 15 hours ago
Reimagining Foreign Aid in a Changing Global Order with Mary-Collier Wilks (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 3756
What happens to foreign aid (and to women’s status) when the global development landscape shifts away from U.S. dominance? In this episode of Interna…
5 days, 15 hours ago
Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China with Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 3755
Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China (U California Press, 2026) by Dr. Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi examines t…
1 week ago
Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language with David Shuang Song (U of Minnesota Press, 2026)
Episode 3754
Who has the “right” to learn Mandarin Chinese? In Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language (U Minnesota Press, 2026), Dr. David …
1 week, 2 days ago
Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 3753
How AI is rewiring our social fabric—and how we can better shape our future.
The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth In…
1 week, 3 days ago
Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Survival with Sarah Brothers (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 3752
As overdose deaths continue to mount and debates rage over harm reduction, drug policy, and homelessness, Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Sur…
1 week, 5 days ago
Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South with Lauren Nicole Henley (LSU Press, 2026)
Episode 3751
For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Bla…
1 week, 6 days ago
How Girls Achieve
Episode 3750
How Girls Achieve points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs what Dr. …
3 weeks, 4 days ago