Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJuliet Schor, "After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 205
When the "sharing economy" launched a decade ago, proponents claimed that it would transform the experience of work--giving earners flexibility, auto…
2 years, 8 months ago
Stephen Bright and James Kwak, "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts" (The New Press, 2023)
Episode 389
Glenn Ford, a Black man, spent thirty years on Louisiana’s death row for a crime he did not commit. He was released in 2014—and given twenty dollars—…
2 years, 8 months ago
Sofya Aptekar, "Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 228
While the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country, the reality is that nearly 5 percent of all first-tim…
2 years, 8 months ago
Nour Halabi, "Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Episode 393
How should we understand contemporary migration policy? In Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration (Rutgers UP, 2022), Nour Hala…
2 years, 8 months ago
J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 25
In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as a…
2 years, 8 months ago
Methadone and Covid-19
Episode 54
Helen Redmond is a Harlem-based documentary filmmaker, journalist, licensed clinical social worker, and professor at NYU. As senior editor and a mult…
2 years, 8 months ago
Morgan L. W. Hazelton and Rachael K. Hinkle, "Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making" (UP Kansas, 2022)
Episode 665
Each June in the United States, scholars, journalists, law makers, law enforcers, lawyers, and members of the public wait for the announcement of maj…
2 years, 8 months ago
Tina Shrestha, "Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 238
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navig…
2 years, 8 months ago
Brent Cebul, "Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Episode 1336
Today, the word "neoliberal" is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neol…
2 years, 8 months ago
Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 204
Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people? To answer this question, Keisha Ray's book Black Health: The Soc…
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