Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElizabeth Shakman Hurd, "Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 1959
Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, “Heaven has a wall,” activists shout back, “Jesus…
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Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
Episode 42
Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative journalist whose best-selling 2019 book Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest …
1 year, 2 months ago
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 610
In the United States, systemic racism is embedded in policies and practices, thereby structuring American society to perpetuate inequality and all of…
1 year, 2 months ago
Phyu Phyu Oo, "Conflict-related Sexual Violence in Myanmar: The Role of the State" (De Gruyter, 2025)
Episode 1956
Systemic sexual violence by the Myanmar army and proxies began to be widely reported in the 2010s, in the course of genocidal violence against Rohing…
1 year, 2 months ago
Cat Dawson, "Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 1955
For centuries, monuments have telegraphed the values and origin myths of dominant culture in public space and on massive scale. They have signaled bo…
1 year, 2 months ago
Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 1954
For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious cha…
1 year, 2 months ago
David S. Wall, "Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age" (Polity, 2024)
Episode 148
How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional crimina…
1 year, 2 months ago
Seeing China’s Belt and Road with Ed Schatz and Rachel Silvey
Episode 1952
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What becomes visible when you shift the lens away from Beijing to how China’s Belt and Road projects unfold on the ground? Seeing Ch…
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Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, Robert A. McLeman, "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1951
This book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key conc…
1 year, 2 months ago
Margaret Cook Andersen, "Fertile Expectations: The Politics of Involuntary Childlessness in Twentieth-Century France" (Manchester UP, 2025)
Episode 1950
An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, Fertile expectations: The politics of involuntary childle…
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