Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThomas Princen, "Fire and Flood: Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 2029
Thomas Princen explores issues of social and ecological sustainability at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michig…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 196
The aging of America will reshape how we live and will transform nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Renowned life course sociologist Debora…
10 months ago
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 29
Policing is a source of perennial conflict and philosophical disagreement. Current political developments in the United States have only increased th…
10 months ago
Can America Still Lead? Foreign Policy in an Age of Division with Joel Rubin
Episode 2026
What happens when America loses its foreign-policy playbook? RBI acting director Eli Karetny talks with veteran diplomat and policy strategist Joel R…
10 months, 1 week ago
Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change
Episode 2025
In Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change, scholars and practitioners who have worked together in various capacities acro…
10 months, 1 week ago
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 2024
In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventio…
10 months, 1 week ago
On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore
Episode 2023
Today I’m speaking with Hélène Landemore, Professor of Political Science at Yale University, about Democracy and Bullshit, with a special focus on he…
10 months, 1 week ago
Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025)
Episode 2022
Americans have always fought over the meaning of freedom and equality. What is not commonly recognized is that the battles most pivotal in defining o…
10 months, 1 week ago
Ethan W. Ris, "Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 175
For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, …
10 months, 1 week ago
Miranda S. Spivack, "Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back" (The New Press, 2025)
Episode 2019
Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize
A groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against their local and state governments to …
10 months, 2 weeks ago