Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVerity Harding, "AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 92
Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what--and who--thi…
2 years, 6 months ago
Carly Goodman, "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 112
In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to b…
2 years, 7 months ago
Alissa Quart and David Wallis, "Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country" (Haymarket, 2023)
Episode 145
Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of…
2 years, 7 months ago
Calla Hummel, "Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 706
Informal workers make up over two billion workers or about 50 percent of the global workforce, and yet scholarly understandings of informal workers’ …
2 years, 7 months ago
What Does It Mean to Govern a Multilingual Society Well?
Episode 8
Hanna Torsh speaks with Alexandra Grey about good governance in linguistically diverse cities.
Linguistic diversity is often seen through a deficit le…
2 years, 7 months ago
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
Episode 202
Today’s book is: Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2024), by Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein, a …
2 years, 7 months ago
Allyson Mower, "Developing Authorship and Copyright Ownership Policies: Best Practices" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
Episode 45
Authorship represents a new area of policy-related work within higher education research administration, funding agencies, and scholarly journal publ…
2 years, 7 months ago
Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023)
Episode 285
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was ni…
2 years, 7 months ago
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 340
An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically distressed and, counterintuitively, medically u…
2 years, 7 months ago
Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
Episode 120
In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner s…
2 years, 7 months ago