Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMark Solovey, "Social Science for What?: Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 150
This is part one of a two part interview.
"The social sciences have prospered best in the federal government where they have been included under broad…
3 years, 7 months ago
Effective Altruism: What it is, What it Does, and How You Can Help
Episode 73
80,000 Hours provides research and support to help students and graduates switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing probl…
3 years, 7 months ago
Exiled in America: About the Lives of Registered Sex Offenders
Episode 5
Before Darts and Letters there was a documentary series called Cited. This is one of those documentaries.
This episode is about the lives of sex offen…
3 years, 7 months ago
Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner, "The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 52
For The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be (MIT Press, 2022), Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth int…
3 years, 7 months ago
Marc F. Bellemare, "Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 111
Graduate students and newly-minted economists often find that while their time in graduate school taught them a lot about great research of the past …
3 years, 7 months ago
Prison Notebooks: Thinking (and Writing) about Incarceration
Episode 4
I can point you to mountains of research about prisons. I can also recommend at least a dozen Netflix documentaries, and highlight a handful of radic…
3 years, 7 months ago
Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson, "The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 110
For decades, immigration has been one of the most divisive, contentious topics in American politics. And for decades, urgent calls for its policy ref…
3 years, 7 months ago
Jonna Perrillo, "Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 1238
Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands (U Chicago Press, 2022) begins with the 144 children of Nazi scientists …
3 years, 7 months ago
Asim Qureshi, "I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Episode 276
In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more c…
3 years, 8 months ago
Vivian Jing Zhan, "China's Contained Resource Curse: How Minerals Shape State Capital Labor Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 109
Contrary to intuition, many countries have found that having abundant natural resources such as petroleum or diamonds may be a curse as much as a ble…
3 years, 8 months ago