Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDaniel S. Goldberg, "Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Law, Ethics, and Public Health" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Episode 749
Football is the national game in the United States – and many families and friends bond over their love of the sport. While few people play professio…
1 year, 3 months ago
Elizabeth Garner Masarik, "The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Episode 1504
With The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State (University of Georgia Press, 2024), Dr. Elizabeth Garner Masarik s…
1 year, 3 months ago
Kevin B. Smith, "The Jailer's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Episode 24
How does a Black man in Austin get sent to prison on a 70-year sentence for stealing a tuna sandwich, likely costing Texas taxpayers roughly a millio…
1 year, 3 months ago
Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie (with David Cunningham)
Episode 138
Welcome to the final episode of What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 elec…
1 year, 3 months ago
An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)
Episode 138
Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing t…
1 year, 3 months ago
Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales
Episode 240
Today’s book is: Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States (U California Press, 2024), a which explores …
1 year, 3 months ago
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 748
An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of col…
1 year, 3 months ago
Muhammad H. Zaman, "We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 225
Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are di…
1 year, 3 months ago
Domingo Morel, "Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 195
Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institu…
1 year, 3 months ago
Vishaan Chakrabarti, "The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 92
From one of today's most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenge…
1 year, 4 months ago