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Episode 112
International development projects supported by governments of wealthy countries, international financial institutions, and influential NGOs like the…
1 year, 4 months ago
Kevin B. Smith, "The Jailer's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Episode 24
How does a Black man in Austin get sent to prison on a 70-year sentence for stealing a tuna sandwich, likely costing Texas taxpayers roughly a millio…
1 year, 4 months ago
Lauren D. Olsen, "Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 226
Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathe…
1 year, 4 months ago
Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Episode 222
In Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP, 2024), Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay enact a dialogue between cinema, philos…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 319
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a hi…
1 year, 4 months ago
Serene Khader, "Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop" (Beacon Press, 2024)
Episode 195
After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave, is at risk of collapsing on its eroding foundation. In Faux Feminism: Why We Fal…
1 year, 4 months ago
Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 136
In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own compli…
1 year, 4 months ago
Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 242
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college ed…
1 year, 4 months ago
Nick Bernards, "Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First Century Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2024)
Episode 494
Since the global financial crisis that began in 2008, the role of the financial sector in contemporary capitalism has come under increasing scrutiny.…
1 year, 4 months ago
Whitney Kemble, "Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries As Neutral Places, 1960-2020" (Library Juice Press, 2024)
Episode 76
Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries As Neutral Places, 1960-2020 (Library Juice Press, 2024) is the first comprehensive…
1 year, 4 months ago