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Back to SearchEllen Peters, "Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 63
To many mathematicians and math enthusiasts, the word "innumeracy" brings to mind popular writing like that of John Allen Paulos. But inequities in o…
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Dina Fainberg, "Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Episode 155
In an age of mutual acrimony and closed borders, journalists were among the few individuals who crossed the Iron Curtain. Their reporting strongly in…
5 years ago
Free Tax Prep That's Never Free: A Discussion with ProPublica's Justin Elliott
Episode 5
In this episode, we are talking to ProPublica investigative journalist Justin Elliott.
Justin has been with ProPublica since 2012 and writes about bus…
5 years ago
N+1: "Like Partisan Review, but Not Dead"
Episode 4
In this episode, we are talking to Mark Krotov, the publisher and co-editor of n + 1, a magazine of politics, essays and fiction described once: “lik…
5 years ago
Climate Denialism and Propaganda with Catriona McKinnon
Season 2 Episode 46
Catriona McKinnon is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on climate ethics and environmental justice. Muc…
5 years ago
Richard Toye, "Winston Churchill: A Life in the News" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 983
Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it was…
5 years ago
Can we Disagree Online Respectfully?: A Discussion with Ian Leslie
Episode 3
In this episode, we are talking to a British writer Ian Leslie, a journalist and author of acclaimed books on human behavior. His latest book, Confli…
5 years ago
Pallavi Guha, "Hear #metoo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Episode 162
Hello Everyone, and welcome to New Books in Gender and Sexuality, a channel on the New Books Network. I’m your host, Jana Byars, and I’m here today w…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Work of Editing a Magazine: A Discussion with Chris Lehmann
Episode 2
In this episode, we are talking to writer and editor Chris Lehmann, an editor of The Baffler, a former managing editor of The New Republic and a form…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Politics of Online News in Cambodia
Episode 50
In this episode Astrid Norén-Nilsson of Lund University discusses her latest research about the Cambodian online news outlet Fresh News with Duncan M…
5 years, 1 month ago