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Back to SearchPremal Dharia et al., "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change" (FSG Originals, 2024)
Episode 185
In recent years, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define America’s criminal system. Th…
1 year, 11 months ago
Laura Robson, "Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 100
When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they think of charitable efforts to help people displace…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jessie Abrahams, "Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 75
Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds rem…
1 year, 11 months ago
Ailbhe 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…
2 years ago