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Back to SearchFrancine 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, 10 months ago
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Episode 144
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism h…
1 year, 11 months ago
Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 236
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually…
1 year, 11 months ago
Kevin Loughran, "Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 30
A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into dis…
1 year, 11 months ago
Seth A. Berkowitz, "Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Episode 186
Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice ra…
1 year, 11 months ago
Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System" (Lexington Book, 2020)
Episode 107
Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of…
1 year, 11 months ago
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 369
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.
These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but what…
1 year, 11 months ago
Maya Pagni Barak, "The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 226
Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved through immigration court. With a national backlog surpassing one million cases, court hearing…
1 year, 11 months ago
Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 371
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material resea…
1 year, 11 months ago
Angela Garcia, "The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 221
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico C…
1 year, 11 months ago