Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPierre Minn, "Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 184
Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initi…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Future of Multiculturalism: A Discussion with Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint
Episode 40
What is the best way to achieve societal harmony in a place in which groups of people with different identities are living together. Should minority …
3 years, 6 months ago
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, "Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Episode 157
Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (w…
3 years, 6 months ago
Eric MacGilvray, "Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 166
The liberalism that is defended here is therefore itself an object of political contestation, and not just the background against which such contesta…
3 years, 6 months ago
Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
Episode 206
There's a strong chance that chair you are sitting on was made from stolen lumber. In Tree Thieves: Crime And Survival In North America's Woods (Litt…
3 years, 6 months ago
Psyche A. Williams-Forson, "Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 145
In Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America (UNC Press, 2022), Psyche A. Williams-Forson offers her knowledge and experience to illuminat…
3 years, 6 months ago
Sarah Dauncey, "Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 10
In Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture (Cambridge UP, 2022), Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration…
3 years, 6 months ago
Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 330
In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was--and is--a …
3 years, 6 months ago
The Future of Data Control: A Discussion with Sarah Lamdan
Episode 39
A few big companies are selling information about us to governments and companies. But beyond a general sense of unease, what do we need to know abou…
3 years, 6 months ago
Megan Asaka, "Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Episode 112
Seattle has a reputation as a city of Progressive values, but as Megan Asaka argues in Seattle From the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making o…
3 years, 6 months ago