Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIn Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee
Episode 141
In the first part of our two-part conversation on Madison’s Notes, we speak with Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton U…
1 year, 6 months ago
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 170
Critics on the Left have long attacked open markets and free trade agreements for exploiting the poor and undermining labor, while those on the Right…
1 year, 6 months ago
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 382
Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology (Oxford UP, 2025) is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today's age of dig…
1 year, 6 months ago
Gary Griggs, "California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 181
California has more natural hazards per square mile than any other state, but this hasn’t deterred people from moving here. Entire California towns a…
1 year, 6 months ago
Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 250
Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education (MIT Press, 2024) is an imaginative tour of the contemporary university as it could be: a plac…
1 year, 6 months ago
Timothy P. R. Weaver, "Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City" (Temple UP, 2025)
Episode 201
Looking closely at New York City's political development since the 1970s, three "political orders"--conservativism, neoliberalism, and egalitarianism…
1 year, 7 months ago
Kelly Alexander, "Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 168
On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy ins…
1 year, 7 months ago
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
Episode 91
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Aure Schrock, an interdisciplinary technology scholar and writing coach and editor at Indelible Voice, …
1 year, 7 months ago
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
Episode 60
At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over …
1 year, 7 months ago
Yoni Appelbaum, "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of Prosperity" (Random House, 2025)
Episode 200
We take it for granted that good neighborhoods—with good schools and good housing—are inaccessible to all but the very wealthy. But, in America, this…
1 year, 7 months ago