Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 530
Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many m…
1 year, 7 months ago
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 268
Has fascism arrived in America?
In Fascism in America: Past and Present (Cambridge UP, 2023), Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered exper…
1 year, 8 months ago
Arie Perliger, "American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Episode 73
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks or…
1 year, 8 months ago
Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 471
The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the…
1 year, 8 months ago
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
Episode 68
Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from t…
1 year, 8 months ago
Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 236
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually…
1 year, 8 months ago
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
Episode 223
Today’s book is: Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit (U Chicago Press, 2024), by Dr. Robin Bernstein, whi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 336
Fatima, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad, has an interesting legacy, one that is often shaped by sectarian differences and tensions. The sermon of Fa…
1 year, 8 months ago
Michael Willrich, "American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2023)
Episode 266
In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or pr…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System" (Lexington Book, 2020)
Episode 107
Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of…
1 year, 8 months ago