Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Politics of Bicycling
Episode 39
Zack Furness, an associate professor of communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny, talks about his 2010 book, One Less Car: Bicycling and the Po…
3 years, 1 month ago
The History of Student Loans in the United States
Season 2 Episode 37
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, talks about her book, Indentured Students: How Government-Gu…
3 years, 1 month ago
How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?
Episode 52
Mark Parrino has been involved with the delivery of health care and treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) since 1974. As the president of the Ameri…
3 years, 1 month ago
Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility: A Conversation with Arthur Caplan
Episode 18
For this episode we welcome Dr. Arthur Caplan, who is currently the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Di…
3 years, 1 month ago
Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy
Episode 35
Aaron Gordon, Senior Writer at Motherboard, Vice’s science and technology website, talks about his co-authored article, “‘The Least Safe Day’: Rollou…
3 years, 1 month ago
ALICE and Economic Hardship in the United States
Episode 34
Stephanie Hoopes, National Director of United for ALICE, a research center founded at United Way of Northern New Jersey, talks about the ALICE progra…
3 years, 1 month ago
Max Bazerman, "Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 126
Today I talked to Max Bazerman about his book Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop (Princeton UP, 2022).
Remember Saturday Night Liv…
3 years, 1 month ago
We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States
Episode 150
Today’s book is: We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States. The “Dreamer narrative” celebrates the e…
3 years, 1 month ago
Energy Costs, Poverty, and Race
Episode 32
Destenie Nock, an assistant professor in the Engineering and Public Policy and Civil and Environmental Engineering Departments at Carnegie Mellon Uni…
3 years, 1 month ago
Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione, "Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 85
A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services. The majority of the world’…
3 years, 1 month ago