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Back to SearchKetaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne, "Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 355
Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies (Routledge, 2024) edited By Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne examines, for perhaps the first time…
2 years, 4 months ago
John J. Berger, "Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth" (Seven Stories Press, 2023)
Episode 186
Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth (Seven Stories Press, 2023) is a hopeful and critical resource that mak…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Contagion of Covid Policy: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Freedom of Speech
Episode 105
After a storied career as a health policy expert, Stanford Medicine's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya's work became a political focal point during the COVID-19 …
2 years, 4 months ago
Justin O’Connor, "Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 353
According to Dr. Justin O’Connor, culture is at the heart of what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded a…
2 years, 4 months ago
Allison Schrager, "An Economist Walks Into A Brothel And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk" (Portfolio, 2019)
Episode 88
Whether you are a commuter weighing options of taking the bus vs walking to get you to work on time or a military general leading troops into war, ri…
2 years, 4 months ago
Adia Harvey Wingfield, "Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It" (Amistad Press, 2023)
Episode 352
Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work—from getting a job to workplace norms to ad…
2 years, 4 months ago
George 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…
2 years, 5 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…
2 years, 5 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 …
2 years, 5 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…
2 years, 5 months ago