Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmbient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
Episode 132
The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, lar…
2 years, 7 months ago
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, "Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 246
Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America (UNC Press, 2023) examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbe…
2 years, 7 months ago
Olivier Burtin, "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Episode 230
In examining how the veterans' movement inscribed martial citizenship onto American law, politics, and culture, A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenshi…
2 years, 7 months ago
Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 155
A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. The US …
2 years, 7 months ago
Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh
Episode 55
Richard Hirsh, Professor of History at Virginia Tech, talks about his book, Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification …
2 years, 7 months ago
Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 346
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a ma…
2 years, 7 months ago
When Did We See You a Stranger and Welcome You? (with Ben Metcalf)
Episode 64
The poor have always been with us, even in a rich country and a prosperous time. I ask Ben Metcalf, former Secretary of Housing and Community Develop…
2 years, 7 months ago
Postscript: Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?
Episode 18
The Supreme Court recently wrapped up their term – and announced that they will hear a very controversial case about domestic abuse, the power of Con…
2 years, 7 months ago
Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 396
For centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. B…
2 years, 8 months ago
Brendan O'Brien, "Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It" (Chicago Review Press, 2023)
Episode 154
Nobody who sits in traffic on Sedona, Arizona's main stretch or stands shoulder-to-shoulder in its many souvenir shops would call it a ghost town. Ne…
2 years, 8 months ago