Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNicholas Beuret, "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" (Verso, 2025)
Episode 2079
The push for net zero has become a new arena for class conflict, where the powerful profit and the rest suffer. Existing policies won’t limit global …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Jennifer Randles, "Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 2078
Many of us take diapers for granted. Yet diaper insecurity is a common, often hidden consequence of poverty in the US, where nearly half of American …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Lorraine Grimes, "Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain: Pregnancy, Migration and Institutionalization" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 2077
Throughout the twentieth century, many women in Ireland and Britain endured shame and institutionalisation for becoming pregnant outside of marriage.…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Jamila Michener and Mallory E. Sorelle, "Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 2076
Each year, as many as 250 million Americans face civil legal problems like eviction, debt collection, and substandard housing. These problems are dis…
7 months ago
Josh Seim, "The Welfare Assembly Line: Public Servants in the Suffering City" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 2075
Despite claims that we live in a "post-welfare society," welfare offices remain vital not only for those who depend on them for benefits but also for…
7 months ago
Joe Williams, "Inequality in the Digital Economy: The Case for a Universal Basic Income" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Episode 2073
In this episode, Joe Williams speaks with Andrew White about how the digital economy is reshaping inequality, work, and the social contract. Drawing …
7 months ago
Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 2074
Plantations have been the privileged tool of colonial rule and extraction in Mozambique for more than one hundred years despite never having delivere…
7 months ago
Erick Guerra, "Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of US Highway Construction" (Island Press, 2025)
Episode 2072
The world’s largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting ro…
7 months, 1 week ago
David Obst, "Saving Ourselves from Big Car" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)
Episode 2071
Streetwise: Saving Ourselves from Big Car (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025) exposes how “Big Car”―the complex of companies in the automobil…
7 months, 1 week ago
Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)
Episode 2070
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their …
7 months, 1 week ago