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Back to SearchPeter Newell, "States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
What is the role of the state in supporting transitions and deeper transformations towards a more sustainable world?
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3 months ago
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 234
The City and the Hospital (Chicago 2023) focuses on an urban paradox: American hospitals are imagined as sites of healing and care, and yet the peopl…
3 months, 1 week ago
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 658
In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Thomas Princen, "Fire and Flood: Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future" (MIT Press, 2025)
Thomas Princen explores issues of social and ecological sustainability at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michig…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 29
Policing is a source of perennial conflict and philosophical disagreement. Current political developments in the United States have only increased th…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 196
The aging of America will reshape how we live and will transform nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Renowned life course sociologist Debora…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Can America Still Lead? Foreign Policy in an Age of Division with Joel Rubin
What happens when America loses its foreign-policy playbook? RBI acting director Eli Karetny talks with veteran diplomat and policy strategist Joel R…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change
In Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change, scholars and practitioners who have worked together in various capacities acro…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventio…
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Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025)
Americans have always fought over the meaning of freedom and equality. What is not commonly recognized is that the battles most pivotal in defining o…
3 months, 3 weeks ago