Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)
An expansive policy blueprint for meaningfully expanding the middle class for the first time in a century The US middle class was a product of state …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Zeke Hernandez, "The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States―and everywhere else. Pundits, politicians, and the public usually depict imm…
2 months ago
Jose Eos Trinidad, "Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
In Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education (Oxford UP, 2025), Jose Eos Trinidad reveals how organizations outside schools have create…
2 months ago
Jamie Rowen, "Worthy of Justice: The Politics of Veterans Treatment Courts in Practice" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Over the past three decades, jurisdictions across the United States have developed alternatives to traditional criminal procedures and punishments fo…
2 months ago
Stephen Skowronek, "The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Has American democracy outstripped its constitutional accommodations? Faith in the resilience and adaptability of the US Constitution rests on a long…
2 months ago
J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 25
In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as a…
2 months, 1 week ago
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 196
Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare …
2 months, 1 week ago
Arseli Dokumaci, "Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 22
For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or…
2 months, 1 week ago
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 198
Was the use of violence on January 6th Capitol attacks legitimate? Is the use of violence morally justified by members of Extinction Rebellion or Jus…
2 months, 1 week ago
Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)
Episode 146
Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking s…
2 months, 2 weeks ago