Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchArif Hasan, "The Search for Shelter: Writings on Land and Housing" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 91
The Search for Shelter: Writings on Land and Housing (Oxford UP, 2022) sheds light on the global population living in slums, which has increased from…
1 year, 7 months ago
Daniel Kahneman’s Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research
Episode 68
After the unprecedented Exxon Valdez oil spill, a jury of ordinary Alaskans decided that Exxon had to be punished. However, Exxon fought back against…
1 year, 7 months ago
Laura Zurowski et al., "City Steps of Pittsburgh: A History & Guide" (History Press, 2024)
Episode 114
In Pittsburgh, the elevation varies wildly, fluctuating 660 feet from highest to lowest points throughout the area and making it one of the hilliest …
1 year, 7 months ago
Katherine Hempstead, "Uncovered: The Story of Insurance in America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 106
Historically, the insurance industry in America has been fragmented. As a result, there have been debates and conflicts over the proper roles of fede…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jessica S. Henry, "Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 57
Jessica Henry's Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened (U California Press, 2021) explores a shocking but all-too-c…
1 year, 7 months ago
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 228
The U.S. government's decades-long "war on drugs" is increasingly recognized as a moral travesty as well as a policy failure. The criminalization of …
1 year, 7 months ago
Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg and Hélène Tigroudja, "Women’s Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016)
Episode 4
Despite global undertakings to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights, culture, traditional practices and religion are widely used to discrimin…
1 year, 7 months ago
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, "Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 6
Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria cont…
1 year, 7 months ago
Patrick McKelvey, "Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 47
In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project al…
1 year, 7 months ago
Francine Banner, "Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 227
Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Francine Banner is a fascinating cultural…
1 year, 7 months ago