Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAndrew S. Rosenberg, "Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 628
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 officially ended the explicit prejudice in American immigration policy that began with the 1790 restricti…
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Mikkael A. Sekeres, "Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 176
How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer drug …
3 years, 4 months ago
Christopher Stuart Taylor, "Flying Fish in the Great White North: The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians" (Fernwood, 2016)
Episode 330
Canadians are proud of their multicultural image both at home and abroad. But that image isn t grounded in historical facts. As recently as the 1960s…
3 years, 4 months ago
Richard V. Reeves, "Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It" (Brookings Institution, 2022)
Episode 119
Today I talked to Richard Reeves about his important new book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do abou…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Future of Money Laundering: A Discussion with Oliver Bullough
Episode 37
How can you hide and spend billions of dollars? Many people hoping to do that go to London which is today considered the money laundering capital of …
3 years, 4 months ago
Max H. Bazerman, "Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 50
It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about …
3 years, 4 months ago
Robert Gottlieb, "Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 177
This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitable care-centered world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic r…
3 years, 4 months ago
Elizabeth Drame et al., "The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism" (Peter Lang, 2020)
Episode 329
The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism (Peter Lang, 2020) presents nuanced perspectives in the for…
3 years, 4 months ago
Observations about the Hard-Won Wisdom of Old Age
Episode 101
The world's population has just passed the 8 billion mark and an increasing proportion of those people are old, including increasingly the so-called …
3 years, 4 months ago
Darts Transit Commission: Silicon Valley’s Car Culture
Episode 44
Paris Marx is one of the sharpest modern writers on Silicon Valley and transit. We have been talking a lot lately about the idea of techno-utopian th…
3 years, 4 months ago