Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVishaan 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
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, "What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Episode 131
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman's book What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice (St. Martin's Press, 2024) presents a modern argument, gro…
1 year, 4 months ago
Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 746
The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and d…
1 year, 4 months ago
Paul M. Renfro, "The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 194
In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan Wh…
1 year, 4 months ago
Todd Stern, "Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 195
From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 20…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ethel Tungohan, "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 331
Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Press, 2023) challenges the stereotype of downtrodden…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ethel Tungohan, "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 331
Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Press, 2023) challenges the stereotype of downtrodden…
1 year, 4 months ago
Gareth Millward, "Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 141
Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State (Oxford UP, 2022) is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medica…
1 year, 4 months ago
Emiliana Vegas, "Let's Change the World: How to Work within International Development Organizations to Make a Difference" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Episode 162
So many talented young people receive a great education and set out to make a difference in the world. Yet, they often find the global institutions o…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sanaullah Khan, "Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Episode 64
Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditi…
1 year, 4 months ago