Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGhost in the Criminal Justice Machine
Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flou…
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Stephen Bezruchka, "Born Sick in the USA: Improving the Health of a Nation" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
How healthy you are is dependent on where you live. Americans suffer more cancers, heart disease, mental illness, and other chronic diseases than tho…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Tara Lohan, "Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life" (Island Press, 2025)
Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (Island Press, 2025) is not Tara’s first book, she authored one at age eight. From their sh…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Colette Einfeld and Helen Sullivan, "How to Conduct Interpretive Research: Insights for Students and Researchers" (Edward Elgar, 2025)
What happens when an academic supervisor and their former student get together to write and edit a book on researching our social world? In How to Co…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky" (Haymarket, 2020)
Episode 79
Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by such pundits as JD Vance by do…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 60
George Fisher, the Judge John Crown Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, just released his new book Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial M…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Matteo Gatti, "Corporate Power and the Politics of Change" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
In Corporate Power and the Politics of Change (Cambridge UP, 2025), Matteo Gatti examines how corporations have taken on roles traditionally reserved…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Democracy and Its Inter-Connections
Former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla joins us for a conversation on global democratic backsliding, the role of the international community, …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?
Episode 52
Mark Parrino has been involved with the delivery of health care and treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) since 1974. As the president of the Ameri…
1 month, 3 weeks ago