Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTim Lenton, "Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1978
As global change escalates, we are already starting to experience damaging tipping points in the social, ecological and climate systems that we depen…
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Daniel Lomas, "The Secret History of UK Security Vetting from 1909 to the Present" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 1979
Using newly available government records, private papers, and documents obtained through Freedom of Information, The Secret History of UK Vetting fro…
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Bettina Ng′weno, "No Place Like Home in a New City: Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi" (U of California Press, 2025)
Episode 1977
Bettina Ng’weno is Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis
Nairobi, known as the Green City in the Su…
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Bench Ansfield, "Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City" (Norton, 2025)
Episode 1976
“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as f…
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Steve L. Monroe, "Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 1974
In Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World (Cornell UP, 2025), Steve L. Monroe argues that geopolitics and social c…
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Thomas Christian Bächle and Jascha Bareis eds., "The Realities of Autonomous Weapons (Bristol UP, 2025)
Episode 1975
Autonomous weapons exist in a strange territory between Pentagon procurement contracts and Hollywood blockbusters, between actual military systems an…
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Christopher R. Matthews, "Doing Good Social Science: Lessons from Immersion, Understanding Social Life and Exploring the In-Between" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 1973
Doing Good Social Science: Lessons from Immersion, Understanding Social Life and Exploring the In-Between (Routledge, 2025) takes readers on a person…
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Matthew Facciani, "Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do about It" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Episode 1972
Why are people inclined to believe misinformation? Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do about It (Columbia UP, 2025…
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Jacob F. H. Smith, "Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Episode 217
After a period of relative calm in congressional elections prior to 2006, America has experienced a series of highly competitive, volatile national e…
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Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 124
Throughout American history, lawmakers have limited the range of treatments available to patients, often with the backing of the medical establishmen…
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