Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Ost, "Red Pill Politics: Demystifying Today's Far Right" (New Press, 2026)
Around the globe, far-right political parties and movements are on the march, winning popular support, legislative seats, and presidencies--and stoki…
2 months, 1 week ago
Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education.
On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to add…
2 months, 1 week ago
Sarah James, "The Politics of Failed Policies" (Oxford UP, 2025)
The Politics of Failed Policies (Oxford UP, 2025) examines how the interplay of politics and data affects when failed policies get recognized. It sho…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America
Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions—and …
2 months, 1 week ago
Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress" (JHU Press, 2026)
Why fifty years of changemaking and reform haven't fixed Congress—and what that reveals about American democracy. Congress, the central democratic in…
2 months, 1 week ago
Doug Crandell, "Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages" (Cornell UP, 2022)
In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages (Cornell UP, 2022), Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh reality …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Sunmin Kim, "The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
What happens when theories of racial hierarchies interact with reality? How are they contested, refuted and changed in light of that encounter? What …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health
A powerful blend of deeply human stories and rigorous research, The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health (Beacon Press, 20…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, "The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late" (Verso Books, 2025)
A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster, by the bestselling authors of Overshoot
The world is crossing the 1.…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Courtney Humphries, "Climate Change and the Future of Boston" (Anthem Press, 2026)
Like many of the world’s iconic coastal cities, Boston faces potentially severe impacts from climate change. Depending on global emissions, Boston co…
2 months, 3 weeks ago