Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSocialise the Series of Tubes: Toward a Democratic Internet
Episode 12
Recently a major outage took nearly a third of Canada offline. No phone, no internet… even access to 911 got shut down in some places. So why does on…
3 years, 7 months ago
Will Jawando, "My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole" (FSG, 2022)
Episode 316
Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized. As a boy growi…
3 years, 7 months ago
Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 151
This is part two of a two part interview.
Mark Solovey’s ‘Social Science for What?’ is essential reading for anyone in either the history of science p…
3 years, 7 months ago
Erica Gies, "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 123
Trouble with water – increasingly frequent, extreme floods and droughts – is one of the first obvious signs of climate change. Meanwhile, urban spraw…
3 years, 7 months ago
Paisley Currah, "Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 207
Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for se…
3 years, 7 months ago
Anthony Abraham Jack, "The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 173
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more…
3 years, 7 months ago
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedom" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 613
Freedom is often considered the cornerstone of the American political project. The 1776 revolutionaries declared it an inalienable right that could n…
3 years, 7 months ago
Michael S. Roth, "Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses" (Yale UP, 2021)
Episode 172
From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto, Safe Enough Spaces (Yale UP, 2021) on the crises confronting hi…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Grift of Meritocracy: All About Grifting (Inside and Outside of the Academy)
Episode 7
Our society is dominated by grifters. Cheats, cons, frauds: people who don’t really believe what they tell you. They’re just what they need to do to …
3 years, 7 months ago
Heejung Chung, "The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation" (Polity Press, 2022)
Episode 304
Why are we working harder? In The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation (Polity Press, 2022), Heejung Chung, a profe…
3 years, 7 months ago