Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Lyon, "Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Surveillance is everywhere today, generating data about our purchasing, political, and personal preferences. Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction …
1 year, 5 months ago
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Episode 9
As police racism unsettles Britain's tolerant self-image, Black Resistance to British Policing (Manchester UP, 2021) details the activism that made m…
1 year, 5 months ago
Devin Fergus, “Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 116
Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality – a loss of working c…
1 year, 5 months ago
Shannon Mattern, "A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 38
Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies …
1 year, 5 months ago
Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024)
Episode 503
After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, these new pla…
1 year, 5 months ago
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 111
How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democratic.
The power to create money is foundational to the state. In the United States, th…
1 year, 5 months ago
Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 501
In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy?
This is the urgent…
1 year, 5 months ago
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023)
Episode 165
The recent retreat from globalization has been triggered by a perception that increased competition from global trade is not fair and leads to increa…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ulises Ali Mejias and Nick Couldry, "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 378
In the present day, Big Tech is extracting resources from us, transferring and centralizing resources from people to companies. These companies are g…
1 year, 5 months ago
Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, "Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 199
American democracy is in trouble. At the heart of the contemporary crisis is a mismatch between America's Constitution and today's nationalized, part…
1 year, 5 months ago