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Back to SearchJustin Marceau, "Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 30
For all the diversity of views within the animal protection movement, there is a surprising consensus about the need for more severe criminal justice…
2 years, 2 months ago
David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 2
We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and opioid abuse. Today I talked with historian David Co…
2 years, 2 months ago
Milton Gaither, "Homeschool: An American History" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Episode 76
With around two million children currently enrolled in home schools in the USA, no-one can doubt that the subject of Milton Gaither’s new book is tim…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Future of Migration: A Discussion with Hein de Haas
Episode 92
Immigration has become one of the biggest issues in all western democracies. And the debate is so charged it's hard to know who to believe. Which is …
2 years, 2 months ago
Emily Horowitz, "From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 207
In her book From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), Emily Horowitz shows how current se…
2 years, 3 months ago
Daniel Campo, "Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Episode 169
A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campus of concrete grain elevators in Buffalo. Two monume…
2 years, 3 months ago
Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen
Episode 92
What (and why) can and can't we say? What do empirical examples both at home and abroad tell us about how we should protect freedom of speech? How do…
2 years, 3 months ago
Chetan Choithani, "Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 330
Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines the role of migration as a livelihood strategy in i…
2 years, 3 months ago
Stephen Boucher et al., "The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 695
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance (Routledge, 2023) explores the concepts, methodologies, and implicatio…
2 years, 3 months ago
Nettrice R. Gaskins, "Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 271
Today I talked to Nettrice R. Gaskins about Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classro…
2 years, 3 months ago