Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLaura Frances Goffman, "Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 1940
Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia (Stanford UP, 2024) offers a social and political history of medici…
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Howard A. Husock, "The Projects: A New History of Public Housing" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 1938
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…
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Maraam A. Dwidar, "Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 1937
A vital examination of how social and economic justice organizations overcome resource disadvantages and build political power. Why do some coalition…
1 year, 3 months ago
Jonathan Tarleton, "Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons" (Beacon Press, 2025)
Episode 1936
In Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons (Beacon Press, 2025), urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton…
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Robert Chernomas, Gregory Chernomas, and Ian Hudson, "The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 1935
Biological justification for all forms of inequality has a long history, with the claim that particular groups suffer disproportionately from inherit…
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Jaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Episode 1934
The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy (Columbia University Press, 2025) explores how civil servants na…
1 year, 3 months ago
Nicholas Chesterley, "Future-Generation Government: How to Legislate for the Long Term" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
Episode 1933
Our impact on future generations has never been greater, and the challenges we face are increasingly long-term. Future-Generation Government propose…
1 year, 3 months ago
Catriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024)
Episode 1932
Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is th…
1 year, 4 months ago
Hali Lee, "The Big We" (Zando - Sweet July Books, 2025)
Episode 7
Hali Lee's The Big We (Zando, 2025) offers a compelling counterpoint to traditional billionaire-driven philanthropy (which she dubs "Big Phil"). Inst…
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Postcript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
Episode 1930
We’ve been focusing on the dynamics of democratic backsliding in the United States and beyond. In this episode of Postscript: Conversations on Politi…
1 year, 4 months ago