Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRyan Reft, "Heroin and Chocolate City: Black Community Responses to Drug Addiction in the Nation’s Capital, 1967-1973" (2024)
Episode 62
Ryan Reft is a historian in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, where he oversees collections pertaining to 20th and 21st century dom…
2 years, 4 months ago
Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 150
In his latest book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W. W. Norton, 2024), Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz rethinks the nature o…
2 years, 4 months ago
Elise Andaya, "Pregnant at Work: Low-Wage Workers, Power, and Temporal Injustice" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 359
The low-wage service industry is one of the fastest-growing employment sectors in the US economy. Its workers disproportionately tend to be low-incom…
2 years, 4 months ago
Matthew Berland and Antero Garcia, "The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 56
Educational analytics tend toward aggregation, asking what a “normative” learner does. In The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice…
2 years, 4 months ago
Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 149
Forest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging question: have we lost our capacity to act on the future? Dr. Liliana Doganova’s book Dis…
2 years, 4 months ago
Maria Cristina Garcia, "State of Disaster: The Failure of U. S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 110
Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political an…
2 years, 4 months ago
Alissa Quart, "Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream" (Ecco Press, 2023)
Episode 186
The promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to the story of the American Dream. It's the belief that if you work hard a…
2 years, 4 months ago
Book Banning: A Discussion with Christine Emeran of the National Coalition Against Censorship
Episode 213
Book bans and book challenges are both on the rise. And they are increasing at unprecedented rates. But why is this happening? Dr. Christine Emeran o…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ariana Mangual Figueroa, "Knowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 230
Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their schooling.
There is a persistent assumption in the field of education that chi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Matilda Bickers, "Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex" (PM Press, 2023)
Episode 41
Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex (PM Press, 2023) is an intimate portrait of the lives o…
2 years, 4 months ago