Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 45
In a world awash in “fake news,” where public figures make unfounded assertions as a matter of course, a preeminent legal theorist ranges across the …
3 years ago
Jane Lasonder, "Red Alert: The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking" (Scholten Uitgeverij BV, 2016)
Episode 32
We love the tradition of the Amsterdam red light district, where many women stand in the windows in their underwear. Busloads of tourists and school …
3 years ago
David Bond, "Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 143
So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies: Fossi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Leila Jancovich and David Stevenson, "Failures in Cultural Participation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 132
For the past two decades, the arts and cultural establishment in the UK has been trying to engage a broader set of audiences in their work. Countless…
3 years, 1 month ago
Joseph Plaster, "Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 48
In Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin (Duke UP, 2023), Joseph Plaster explores the informal support network…
3 years, 1 month ago
Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Episode 180
Professor Jonathan Herring makes an argument that suicidal people have a right to be protected from committing suicide, and that the state should be …
3 years, 1 month ago
Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 180
"Why do we think about some practices as work, and not others? Why do we classify certain capacities as economically valuable skills, and others as i…
3 years, 1 month ago
Robyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott, "Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 101
How can cultural heritage give us the methodological tools and source material to confront climate change? How can the cultural heritage sector lead …
3 years, 1 month ago
Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Episode 65
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Henry Holt, 2023) is the inside story of a worldwide investig…
3 years, 1 month ago
Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 190
Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines (U California Press, 2023) takes readers into the struggle over a medical …
3 years, 1 month ago