Podcast Episodes

Milton E. Clarke, "The Community College Reform Movement: Contentions and Ideological Origins" (Routledge, 2025)

In his new book, The Community College Reform Movement: Contentions and Ideological Origins (Routledge, 2025), political scientist Milton Clarke crit…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Claire Pierson, "Women's Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland" (Manchester University Press, 2025)

How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of contemporary four…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Atinuke O. Adediran, "Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

The 2020 murder of George Floyd sparked mass protests that challenged many institutions, including large for-profit companies, to reflect on how to a…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Laura Frances Goffman, "Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia" (Stanford UP, 2024)

Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia (Stanford UP, 2024) offers a social and political history of medici…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Howard A. Husock, "The Projects: A New History of Public Housing" (NYU Press, 2025)

How housing policy failed the people it was designed to help -- and how to fix it

As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Amer…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Maraam A. Dwidar, "Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)

A vital examination of how social and economic justice organizations overcome resource disadvantages and build political power. Why do some coalition…

9 months ago

Jonathan Tarleton, "Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons" (Beacon Press, 2025)

In Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons (Beacon Press, 2025), urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton…

9 months, 1 week ago

Robert Chernomas, Gregory Chernomas, and Ian Hudson, "The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines" (Routledge, 2025)

Biological justification for all forms of inequality has a long history, with the claim that particular groups suffer disproportionately from inherit…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Jaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025)

The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy (Columbia University Press, 2025) explores how civil servants na…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Nicholas Chesterley, "Future-Generation Government: How to Legislate for the Long Term" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)

Our impact on future generations has never been greater, and the challenges we face are increasingly long-term. Future-Generation Government propose…

9 months, 2 weeks ago