Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGeorge R. Boyer, "The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 473
The creation of the postwar welfare state in Great Britain did not represent the logical progression of governmental policy over a period of generati…
1 year, 10 months ago
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 61
David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the new book, The Constitution of the War on Drug…
1 year, 10 months ago
Kathryn Telling, "The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige" (Policy Press, 2023)
Episode 451
What is the future of higher education? In The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige (Policy Press, 2023), Dr …
1 year, 10 months ago
Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 148
The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Gr…
1 year, 10 months ago
Philip Mark Plotch and Jen Nelles, "Mobilizing the Metropolis: How the Port Authority Built New York" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Episode 257
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is everywhere in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1921, its portfolio includes airports, mari…
1 year, 10 months ago
Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, "America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 181
What is happening to the politics of race in America?
In America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair (U Chicago Press, 2024), Rogers Smi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Susan Partovi, "Renegade M.D.: A Doctor's Stories from the Streets" (Bookbaby, 2024)
Episode 216
Dr. Susan Partovi first experienced poverty medicine volunteering at a dump site in Tijuana during high school. There, she recognized the need for al…
1 year, 10 months ago
Guido Alfani, "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 97
This provocative and interesting book has received considerable attention. Roaring reviews and interviews include The Financial Times (UK), The Tele…
1 year, 10 months ago
Bruce O'Neill, "Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 208
Bruce O'Neill's Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, l…
1 year, 11 months ago
Ieva Jusionyte, "Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 295
American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migran…
1 year, 11 months ago