Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAilbhe O'Loughlin, "Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 224
In Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation (Oxford UP, 2024), Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin considers the controversial an…
1 year, 8 months ago
Felicia Arriaga, "Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 23
In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigration--what many ha…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider, "The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual" (The New Press, 2024)
Episode 233
A perfectly timed book for the educational resistance—those of us who believe in public schools Culture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist gro…
1 year, 8 months ago
Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)
Episode 720
Amy Schiller, who spent a number of years working in both political and major gift fundraising, has a new book detailing some of the fundamental prob…
1 year, 8 months ago
Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston, "The Political Development of American Debt Relief" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 184
A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizin…
1 year, 8 months ago
Stephanie DeGooyer, "Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Episode 56
How can the novel be a way to understand the development of nation-state borders? An important work in the intersections of law, literature, history,…
1 year, 8 months ago
Postscript: The Supreme Court’s Decisions on Bump Stocks and Mifepristone
Episode 24
In this episode of our occasional series, Postscript, we focus on the Supreme Court’s recently published decisions in two cases, about guns and abort…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jorge Almazán et al., "Emergent Tokyo:: Designing the Spontaneous City" (Oro Editions, 2024)
Episode 28
If ancient Kyoto stands for orderly elegance, then Tokyo, within the world’s most populated metropolitan area, calls to mind–– jam-packed chaos. But …
1 year, 8 months ago
Rhodri Davies, "What Is Philanthropy For?" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 222
In recent years, philanthropy, the use of private assets for the public good, has come under renewed scrutiny. Do elite philanthropists wield too muc…
1 year, 8 months ago
Dasha Kiper, "Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain" (Random House, 2023)
Episode 44
If you’ve ever worked with dementia patients before, you know how unique and bizarre the experience can be, and how little the stereotypes actually h…
1 year, 9 months ago