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Back to SearchSean J. Drake, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 298
In Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb (U California Press, 2022), sociologist Sean J. Drake addresses …
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The Future of Neoliberalism: A Conversation with Gary Gerstle
Episode 14
The word neoliberalism is often used more as an insult than a description of a set of beliefs. And people can be rather hazy about the beliefs it ref…
3 years, 9 months ago
Farah Nayeri, "Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age" (Astra Publishing, 2022)
Episode 101
For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon—kings, popes, and one-party states decided what was considered obscene, blasphemous, or …
3 years, 9 months ago
Ellen Schrecker, "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 1204
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked Amer…
3 years, 9 months ago
Christopher W. Wells, "Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader" (U Washington Press, 2018)
Episode 108
In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence—but these developme…
3 years, 9 months ago
Kennan Ferguson, ed., "The Big No" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 602
The Big No (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is an edited volume, assembled and overseen by political theorist Kennan Ferguson, who also provides the Introdu…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success" (Public Affairs, 2022)
Episode 103
Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social discourse—yet, in most cases, the things we believ…
3 years, 9 months ago
Heba Gowayed, "Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 43
As the world confronts the largest refugee crisis since World War II, wealthy countries are being called upon to open their doors to the displaced, w…
3 years, 9 months ago
Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning
Episode 119
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned cognitive psychologist Stephen Kosslyn about h…
3 years, 9 months ago
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick et al., "Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 137
The ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being, minimize suffering. Sounds simple, righ…
3 years, 9 months ago