Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRyan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 207
The influence of partisan news is presumed to be powerful, but evidence for its effects on political elites is limited, often based more on anecdotes…
10 months ago
Patrick Condon, "Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis" (U British Columbia Press, 2024)
Episode 48
How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that lan…
10 months, 1 week ago
Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 412
In My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America (Princeton University Press, 2025), Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in whi…
10 months, 1 week 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, 1 week ago
"I have not Finished...": Rokahya Diallo on being Black, Muslim, and frequently interrupted (Emilie Diouf, JP)
Emilie Diouf of Brandeis English, whose monograph on genocide and trauma is forthcoming, joins John to speak with the celebrated French journalist an…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Claudia Rowe, "Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care" (Abrams Press, 2025)
Episode 203
Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care (Abrams Press, 2025) is compelling exploration of the broken American foster care system,…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 767
In today's post-Roe v. Wade world, U.S. maternal mortality is on the rise and laws regarding contraception, involuntary sterilization, access to repr…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)
Episode 500
What would happen if policing disappeared? Would we be safe? This book imagines a world without police.
It's evident that policing is a problem. But w…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Saleem H. Ali, "Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 29
The growing concern about global environmental change and human impacts on the planet has led to the emergence of a broad field of study on the 'sust…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Reginald K. Ellis et al., "Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation" (UP of Florida, 2025)
Episode 205
In 2020, Black Americans continued a centuries-long pursuit of racial equality and justice in the streets and at the polls. Arguing that this year wa…
10 months, 3 weeks ago