Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDerailed: The Crisis of Forensic Expertise
Episode 31
When it comes to complex social problems, us “sensible” types turn to the experts, but what if they don’t actually know what they’re talking about? T…
3 years, 6 months ago
Mélissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
Episode 106
In the 1960s and 1970s, the exposure of Big Tobacco’s aggressive lobbying and internal efforts to obscure science showcasing the harmful effects of s…
3 years, 6 months ago
Addressing Hunger, Food Insecurity--Local Solutions to a Global Problem
Episode 80
We live in a time of food paradox. In a world of historically unprecedented abundance, many don’t have enough to eat.
Life-limiting obesity coexists w…
3 years, 6 months ago
John A. List, "The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale" (Currency, 2022)
Episode 114
Today I talked to John List about his book The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale (Currency, 2022).
Want to go on an e…
3 years, 6 months ago
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Episode 105
Before 1973's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, abortion in California was illegal for both doctors performing and women seeking the procedure. In From …
3 years, 6 months ago
Mathew Lawrence and Adrienne Buller, "Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 126
Adrienne Buller (The Value of a Whale) and Mathew Lawrence (Planet on Fire) have penned a radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic p…
3 years, 6 months ago
Postscript: How the Supreme Court Overturned a Century-Old Gun Law…and Changed American Jurisprudence
Episode 14
Today’s Postscript (a special series that allows scholars to comment on pressing contemporary issues) focuses on the US Supreme Court and the Second …
3 years, 6 months ago
The Poison Paradigm: What a Toxic Chemical Tells us about the Politics of Science
Episode 25
We are exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals daily. This is no accident; it is by design. They are everywhere – coating our consumer products, in o…
3 years, 6 months ago
Rochelle DuFord, "Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 153
Of all the concepts that form the constellation of modern political thought, surely “solidarity” is a strong candidate for the most challenging. At o…
3 years, 6 months ago
Samuel Evan Milner, "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America" (Yale UP, 2021)
Episode 38
Concentrated market power and the weakened sway of corporate stakeholders over management have emerged as leading concerns of American political econ…
3 years, 7 months ago