Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBradley 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago
Housing Insecurity and Homelessness: A Nonprofit Approach
Episode 98
The problem of housing insecurity and homelessness consumes the resources of many of the world’s major cities. Homelessness undermines urban cultures…
3 years ago