Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEmily Brooks, "Gotham’s War Within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 19
Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enforce partisan political power rather than focus on…
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Gerald Epstein, “What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory? A Policy Critique” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Episode 41
Since the last-but-one financial crisis abated and governments responded to better times by clawing back their stimulus packages, a once-obscure econ…
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Christopher R. Martin, "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Episode 142
Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of Amer…
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Matthew O. Jackson, "The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors" (Vintage, 2019)
Episode 62
Social networks existed and shaped our lives long before Silicon Valley startups made them virtual. For over two decades economist Matthew O. Jackson…
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Robert N. Gross, “Public vs. Private: The Early History of School Choice in America” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 434
There are numerous political debates about education policy today, but some of the most heated surround vouchers, charter schools, and other question…
2 years, 2 months ago
Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Episode 45
A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.
Animals are in trou…
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Gabriel Abend, "Words and Distinctions for the Common Good: Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 78
How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about it
Social scientists do resea…
2 years, 2 months ago
Robert R. Janes, "Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 1
Who do you turn to at the brink of the apocalypse? What might help us to mitigate the financial, commercial, political, social, and cultural collapse…
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Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)
Episode 690
Scholars Stephen Engel and Timothy Lyle have a new book that dives into the thinking around power, political and cultural progress, and the LGBTQ+ co…
2 years, 2 months ago
Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 168
Laura Briggs’s Taking Children: A History of American Terror (University of California Press 2020) is a forceful and captivating book that readers wo…
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