Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence
Episode 2099
Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they’ve sworn to protect and serve. While some cases, like George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’s, capt…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Thorsten Gromes, "Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases" (Springer, 2026)
Episode 2098
Sustaining Peace After Civil War: Insights from 48 Recent Cases (Springer, 2026) examines one of the most important questions in peace research: Wha…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Tim Cresswell, "The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Episode 2097
An expansive treatise on the power relations that govern our movement The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility (U Minnesota Press, 2026) …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Amelia Frank-Vitale, "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 2096
The consequences of U.S. border policies through the experiences of Honduran migrants. Hondurans have been at the heart of some of the most visible m…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Lee Ann S. Wang, "The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women" (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 2095
The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women (Duke UP, 2026) examines U.S. laws designed to rescue immigrant survi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
David Ost, "Red Pill Politics: Demystifying Today's Far Right" (New Press, 2026)
Episode 2094
Around the globe, far-right political parties and movements are on the march, winning popular support, legislative seats, and presidencies--and stoki…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Mark Hlavacik, "Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 2093
How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education.
On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to add…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Sarah James, "The Politics of Failed Policies" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 2092
The Politics of Failed Policies (Oxford UP, 2025) examines how the interplay of politics and data affects when failed policies get recognized. It sho…
6 months ago
The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America
Episode 2090
Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions—and …
6 months ago
Maya L. Kornberg, "Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress" (JHU Press, 2026)
Episode 2091
Why fifty years of changemaking and reform haven't fixed Congress—and what that reveals about American democracy. Congress, the central democratic in…
6 months ago