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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…
2 years, 5 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…
2 years, 5 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…
2 years, 5 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…
2 years, 5 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…
2 years, 5 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…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jessica C. Robbins, "Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Episode 207
How embedded are the dignity and personhood of the elderly in the collective memory of their nation? In Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Seth D. Kaplan, "Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
Episode 118
The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we know, what resources and opportunities we have access to, the qu…
2 years, 5 months ago
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice" (FSG, 2021)
Episode 215
Raj Patel, the renowned political economist and New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with the physician Rupa Marya to …
2 years, 5 months ago
Margaret Price, "Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 41
In Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024), Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, …
2 years, 5 months ago