Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTeresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 180
The issue of the future of Social Security, on which millions of Americans depend, produced great political theater at the State of the Union address…
1 year, 11 months ago
José Tenorio, "School Food Politics in Mexico: The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 150
For decades now, we’ve all heard the refrain – we are in a war against obesity, with perhaps the most important battle being fought over the health o…
1 year, 11 months ago
India’s Waste Problem: A Discussion with Pamela Das
Episode 216
How is India tackling its persistent wage management problems? And, are new infrastructural solutions the way forward? In this episode, Kenneth Bo Ni…
1 year, 11 months ago
Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 363
Our privacy is besieged by tech companies.
Companies can do this because our laws are built on outdated ideas that trap lawmakers, regulators, and cou…
1 year, 11 months ago
Neil Gong, "Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 347
Sociologist Neil M. Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between.
In 2022…
1 year, 11 months ago
Why, How, and Who to Marry: A Conversation with Brad Wilcox *01
Episode 101
University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox *01 delves into some of the popular wisdom surrounding marriage and tells us what the data has to say:…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jeffrey Benson, "Hacking School Discipline Together" (Times Ten Publications, 2024)
Episode 229
Jeffrey Benson’s Hacking School Discipline Together (Times Ten Publications, 2024) follows in footsteps first hacked out by Weinstein and Maynard in …
1 year, 11 months ago
Karl Widerquist, "Universal Basic Income" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 179
Karl Widerquist's Universal Basic Income (MIT Press, 2024) is an accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income…
1 year, 11 months ago
Alke Jenss, "Selective Security in the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 210
Paramilitaries, crime, and tens of thousands of disappeared persons—the so-called war on drugs has perpetuated violence in Latin America, at times pr…
2 years ago
Ali Bhagat, "Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 709
Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism (Cornell UP, 2024) answers a straightforward question: how are refugees governed u…
2 years ago