Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchReginald K. Ellis et al., "Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation" (UP of Florida, 2025)
Episode 205
In 2020, Black Americans continued a centuries-long pursuit of racial equality and justice in the streets and at the polls. Arguing that this year wa…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 128
Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of farm machinery, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides are sold to farmers around the world. Althoug…
1 year, 5 months ago
Michael Rosino, "Democracy Is Awkward: Grappling with Racism Inside American Grassroots Political Organizing" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 202
In uncertain times, confronting pressing problems such as racial oppression and the environmental crisis requires everyday people to come together an…
1 year, 5 months ago
Mary Bosworth, "Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 167
In the UK’s fully outsourced “immigration detainee escorting system,” private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national…
1 year, 5 months ago
Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
Episode 1909
Wage stagnation, growing inequality, and even poverty itself have resulted from decades of neoliberal decision making, not the education system, writ…
1 year, 5 months ago
Aaron Kupchik, "Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 249
Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve t…
1 year, 5 months ago
Pandemic Power: The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy - A Liberal Critique
Episode 20
In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sat down with Muriel Blaive to talk about her new book with CEU Press, Pandemic Power: The Covid Res…
1 year, 5 months ago
What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions
Episode 261
Leaders who introduce anti-racist approaches to their organizations often face backlash. In What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Instit…
1 year, 5 months ago
Duncan Watson, "Everyone's Trash: One Man Against 1.6 Billion Pounds" (Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2024)
Episode 208
Each day, every single person in the United States, all 324 million, discards about five pounds of waste. Be it a bottle that gets placed in a recycl…
1 year, 5 months ago
Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 124
The United States is widely recognized as the quintessential consumer society, one where huge companies like Walmart and Amazon are famous for entici…
1 year, 5 months ago