Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMartin Shaw, "The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza" (Agenda Publishing, 2025)
Episode 3716
The Israeli destruction of Gaza has returned the idea of genocide to the center of world politics, with sharp conflicts between the protesters an…
3 months ago
Suzy Hansen, "From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan" (FSG, 2026)
Episode 3715
From Suzy Hansen, whose previous book, Notes on a Foreign Country, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a N…
3 months ago
Caste as a Material Question with Rahul Sonpimple
Episode 3714
This episode featured a conversation with Rahul Sonpimple, founder of the All-India Independent Scheduled Castes Association. Our conversation began …
3 months ago
Khiara Bridges, "Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans" (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 3712
An unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substa…
3 months ago
Elana Resnick, "Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Episode 3713
Sustainability has become a touchstone for development worldwide, promising an antidote to environmental degradation and capitalism's excess: waste…
3 months ago
Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification" (Stanford UP 2026)
Episode 3711
We use avatars to play video games. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities. In the digital realm, ano…
3 months, 1 week ago
Recall This Book x The Caste Pod: a Crossover episode with Ajantha Subramanian
Episode 3710
In the spirit of Hannah Arendt's natality principle (that new things are always and should always be being born, each one unique and endowed with lim…
3 months, 1 week ago
Mike F. Alvarez, Warren J. Bareiss, and Jolane Flanigan eds., "Suicide in Popular Media and Culture: Studies in Framing a Social Catastrophe" (Bristol University Press, 2026)
Episode 3709
NB: This episode contains a discussion of suicide and may not be appropriate for all listeners. If you are thinking about hurting yourself, help is…
3 months, 1 week ago
Doubled Up: Shared Households and the Precarious Lives of Families
Episode 3708
More than eleven million children in the US live in doubled-up households, sharing space with extended family or friends. These households are even m…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Nicholas Freudenberg, "Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice Since The 1960s" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Episode 3707
Today I'm speaking with Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Health at the CUNY School of Public Health. We are discussin…
3 months, 2 weeks ago