Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoni Schwartz and John R. Chaney, "Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Episode 8
While in no way supporting the systemic injustices and disparities of mass incarceration, in Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Exp…
3 years, 8 months ago
Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Episode 173
Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when …
3 years, 8 months ago
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 610
In the United States, systemic racism is embedded in policies and practices, thereby structuring American society to perpetuate inequality and all of…
3 years, 8 months ago
Susan Hartman, "City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Episode 140
City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town (Beacon Press, 2022) paints an intimate portrait of the n…
3 years, 8 months ago
HouseMate: Lessons from Singapore on How to Provide Universal Cheap Homeownership
Episode 59
While Australia prides itself on being an egalitarian society, and owning a detached house on fenced block of land plays a much-revered role in the G…
3 years, 8 months ago
Max Holleran, "Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 139
The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A gr…
3 years, 8 months ago
Shelly Oria and Kirstin Valdez Quade, "I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom" (McSweeney’s Books, 2022)
Episode 44
Shelly Oria has just produced an anthology of writings on reproductive freedom that is available now from McSweeney’s Books, in partnership with The …
3 years, 8 months ago
Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022)
Episode 123
Plan S: the open access initiative that changed the face of global research. Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells's book Plan S for Shock: Science. Sho…
3 years, 8 months ago
Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe: An American Story" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Episode 188
Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fr…
3 years, 8 months ago
Judah Schept, "Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 5
As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. Mo…
3 years, 9 months ago