Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTake Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda
Episode 138
Midcentury America was governed from the center, a bipartisan consensus of politicians and public opinion that supported government spending on educa…
2 years, 7 months ago
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 56
Benjamin Y. Fong is author of the new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, which was just released in July,…
2 years, 7 months ago
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
Episode 56
Katie Wells, a Postdoctoral Fritz Fellow with Georgetown University's Tech and Society Initiative, and Kafui Attoh, Associate Professor of Urban Stud…
2 years, 7 months ago
Keith A. Mayes, "The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 207
The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education (U Minnesota Press, 2023) examines the overrepresentation of Black s…
2 years, 7 months ago
Michell D. Jones and Elisabeth A. Nelson, "Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920" (New Press, 2023)
Episode 205
What if prisoners were to write the history of their own prison? What might that tell them--and all of us--about the roots of the system that incarce…
2 years, 7 months ago
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 194
Why do we protect free speech? What values does it serve? How has the Supreme Court interpreted the First Amendment? What has the Court gotten right …
2 years, 7 months ago
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
Episode 19
Postscript invites scholars to react to contemporary political events and today’s podcast welcomes an expert on domestic violence and firearms law to…
2 years, 7 months ago
Flora Samuel, "Housing for Hope and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 157
Housing and neighborhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. Housing for Hope and Wellb…
2 years, 7 months ago
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran, "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy" ((Harvard Education Press, 2023)
Episode 206
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran propose that, even as events of this decade have exposed stress points in existing top-down, closed systems within…
2 years, 7 months ago
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, "Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 156
An intimate account of rural New England families living on the edge of homelessness, as well as the practices and policies of care that fail them. F…
2 years, 7 months ago