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Back to SearchRonald Meester and Klaas Slooten, "Probability and Forensic Evidence: Theory, Philosophy, and Applications" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 74
In Probability and Forensic Evidence: Theory, Philosophy, and Applications (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ronald Meester and Klaas Slooten address the role of…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Future of Political Anger: A Conversation with Mark Blyth
Episode 25
Trump’s voters. The yellow jackets in France. Putin’s base in Russia. The Brexiteers. One thing all these groups have in common is anger – anger at b…
3 years, 9 months ago
Nasar Meer, "The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice" (Policy Press, 2022)
Episode 307
Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Race, …
3 years, 9 months ago
American Chernobyl, Part 2: The Most Poisonous Place in the USA
Episode 15
Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. In our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant's largely-forgotten history--how it poisoned th…
3 years, 10 months ago
Nick Huntington-Klein, "The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality" (CRC Press, 2021)
Episode 112
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inference…
3 years, 10 months ago
America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
Episode 14
In this episode of Cited: What it means to live in a place where your home can give you cancer.
Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up …
3 years, 10 months ago
Ethan W. Ris, "Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 175
For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, …
3 years, 10 months ago
Charlie Jeffries, "Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Episode 124
Utilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Charlie Jeffries' Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S.…
3 years, 10 months ago
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Episode 144
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism h…
3 years, 10 months ago
Socialise 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, 10 months ago