Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
Episode 410
Despite progressive policy strides in health care reform, immigrant communities continue to experience stark disparities across the United States. In…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Mara Mills et al., "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic" (NYU Press, 2025)
How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic is the first book to document the experiences of those hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City—disable…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco" (U Nevada Press, 2025)
Episode 202
Those who recognize Mayor George Moscone's name may think of him as the career politician who was assassinated along with Harvey Milk, but there was …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Amy Adamczyk, "Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 759
Most people think about abortion in the context of the country they live in. In the U.S., abortion fuels debate, elections, and legislation. In China…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Jason Schupbach and Rana Amirtahmasebi, "The Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 46
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning (Routledge, 2024) provides a manual for planning for arts and culture in cities, featuring chapters…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
Episode 142
This week on Madison’s Notes, we continue our discussion with Stephen Macedo, co-author of In COVID’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us (Princeton UP,…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024)
Episode 203
Economist Bryan Caplan has written—and artist Ady Branzei has illustrated—this new graphic novel about housing regulation (if ‘novel’ can be applied …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Gregor Craigie, "Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis" (Random House Canada, 2024)
Episode 46
Canada is experiencing a housing shortage. Although house prices in major Canadian cities appeared to have topped out, new housing isn’t coming onto …
1 year ago
Mark Neocleous, "Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police" (Verso, 2025)
Episode 125
Today I talked to Mark Neocleous about his new book Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police (Verso, 2025).
For more than two decades, Neocleo…
1 year ago
Carolyn Whitzman, "Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis" (On Point Press, 2024)
Episode 45
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians exist on the edge. Renters fear eviction, homeowners feel trapped, and both are vulnerable to becoming homeless wi…
1 year ago