Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSeeing Truth in Museums
Episode 57
Feeling down about museums? We have so many reasons to, but Chris Newell, Tribal Community Member-in-Residence at UConn and Director of Education at …
3 years, 1 month ago
Sheri Brenden, "Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 235
In Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), Sheri Brenden examines how two teenage girls i…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
Episode 130
Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare. …
3 years, 1 month ago
The History of Temp Work
Episode 16
Historian Louis Hyman, professor and director of the Institute of Workplace Studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations,…
3 years, 1 month ago
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Episode 210
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the te…
3 years, 1 month ago
Liran Einav et al., "Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 129
Why is dental insurance so crummy? Why is pet insurance so expensive? Why does your auto insurer ask for your credit score? The answer to these quest…
3 years, 1 month ago
Steffen Mau, "Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century" (Polity Press, 2022)
Episode 350
It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. In Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of …
3 years, 2 months ago
Shifting Blame: What Should You "Own" and What Shouldn't You?
Episode 17
We claim to judge people for what they intentionally do, but accidents often influence our judgments. In our justice systems, people can be harshly a…
3 years, 2 months ago
How Did the Pandemic Transform Workers and Work?
Episode 108
The pandemic brought to the fore a group of workers deemed “essential” – frontline healthcare workers, restaurant employees, slaughterhouse workers, …
3 years, 2 months ago
Eternity Now: Talking about Mysticism with the Apostle to the Gangs of LA
Season 1 Episode 17
Jesuit Father Greg Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in East LA, the world’s largest and most successful gang intervention and rehabilitatio…
3 years, 2 months ago