Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchStephen Vladeck, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic" (Basic Books, 2023)
Episode 661
Many people are familiar with the United States Supreme Court’s merit docket. Each case follows detailed and professional proceedings that include fo…
2 years, 8 months ago
Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
Episode 186
“Only recently have scholars outside the historical profession identified progressivism for what it was and continues to be: a fundamental rupture wi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Erik Kojola, "Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 298
On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in …
2 years, 8 months ago
Ngaire Naffine, "Criminal Law and the Man Problem" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 190
Men have always dominated the most basic precepts of the criminal legal world – its norms, its priorities and its character. Men have been the regula…
2 years, 8 months ago
Postscript: Politics, Identity, and the US Supreme Court
Episode 17
Postscript invites authors to react to contemporary political events that engage their scholarship. Since the Supreme Court is wrapping up their term…
2 years, 8 months ago
Catherine Carstairs, "The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Episode 201
As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, a…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Ascendance of Social Conservatism in the Public Square
Episode 78
Within political discussions on the Right, social conservatism is on the rise. Why did the Right have a libertarian phase, and why is it leaving it b…
2 years, 9 months ago
John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 129
Today I talked to John L. Rudolph about his book Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) (Oxford UP, 2023).
Few people question the importance of sci…
2 years, 9 months ago
David A. Banks, "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 297
The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America (U California Press, 2023) is the first book to explore how our cities gentrify by…
2 years, 9 months ago
Deborah Stevenson, "Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Value, Work and the Social" (Edward Elgar, 2023)
Episode 385
What is the future for cultural policy? In Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Work, Value, and the Social (Edward Elgar, 2023), Deborah Stevenson, …
2 years, 9 months ago