Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Garland, "Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 2020
The United States has long been an international outlier, with a powerful business class, a weak social state, and an exceptional gun culture. In Law…
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Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 2018
Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education and demands to desegregate public schools, race and class remain the most reliable predictors of educ…
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Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
Episode 215
As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rural A…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)
Episode 41
Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and s…
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Shoshana Walter, "Rehab: An American Scandal" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Episode 2015
In Rehab: An American Scandal (Simon and Schuster, 2025), Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid cri…
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David T. Beito, "FDR: A New Political Life" (Open Universe, 2025)
Episode 222
David Beito's new book brings to bear the latest historical scholarship to shed light on the life and achievements of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Prof…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Mimi Abramovitz, "Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 223
In the fourth edition of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present, drawing on important feminist conce…
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Muhammad H. Zaman, "Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World’s Most Vulnerable" (The New Press, 2025)
Episode 11
In Infected: How Power, Politics, and Privilege Use Science Against the World’s Most Vulnerable (The New Press, 2025), Professor Muhammad H. Zaman re…
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Eram Alam, "The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare" (JHU Press, 2025)
Episode 2011
For more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs, relying instead on the economically expedient option of solicit…
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Michael Maniates, "The Living-Green Myth" (Polity Press, 2025)
Episode 2010
Dr. Michael F. Maniates is a leading scholar in environmental politics and sustainability studies whose work has fundamentally reshaped how researche…
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