Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMarcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)
Episode 392
How can we build a better social and political settlement? In Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality (Policy Pres…
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Apostolos Andrikopoulos, "Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 67
In rapidly changing and highly precarious contexts, unauthorized African migrants turn to kinship in search of security, stability, and predictabilit…
2 years, 8 months ago
Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox, "Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 174
Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold chan…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo
Episode 79
It has been a momentous few weeks for the Supreme Court. What better time to discuss the Court's history and future? We are therefore launching our "…
2 years, 8 months ago
G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 191
For nearly two decades the renowned legal historian G. Edward White has been writing a multi-volume history of law in America. In his third and concl…
2 years, 8 months ago
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 663
Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and the Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, h…
2 years, 8 months ago
Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire, "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School" (The New Press, 2023)
Episode 201
Across the U.S., state legislatures-often under the cover of darkness, and usually in spite of public opposition-are passing bills that channel publi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Episode 24
Eileen V. Wallis' book California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) explores the political, legal, medical, and so…
2 years, 8 months ago
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 14
Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation …
2 years, 8 months ago
Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 153
The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need (NYU Press, 2023) argues that Americans have been abandoned by a government that has relinqui…
2 years, 8 months ago