Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 74
Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren …
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Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)
Episode 464
How do unequal societies function? In Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net (Portfolio, 2024), Jesscia Calarco, an Associate Pro…
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Lydia Walker, "States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 96
Dr. Lydia Walker's deeply researched and carefully narrated debut monograph, States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization (Cambrid…
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Christopher William England, "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 213
Henry George’s Progress and Poverty was one of the best-selling books of the 19th century, and his ideas were taken up by by powerful figures as dive…
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Nivedita Menon, "Secularism As Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 463
In this episode, we speak to Nivedita Menon about her new book, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South (Duke University P…
1 year, 9 months ago
Critical Muslim Studies: Decoloniality
Season 1 Episode 2
An interview with Salman Sayyid about decoloniality and its place in Critical Muslim Studies.
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1 year, 9 months ago
Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)
Episode 68
Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture, yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants ra…
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Mark Stoll, "Profit: An Environmental History" (Polity Press, 2022)
Episode 462
Profit ― getting more out of something than you put into it ― is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in…
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Margaret A. Hagerman, "Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 365
Kids are at the center of today's "culture wars"--pundits, politicians, and parents alike are debating which books they should be allowed to read, wh…
1 year, 9 months ago
Jean Petrucelli et al., "Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 231
Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2022) joins luminaries in contemporary psychoanalysis with pioneers of femini…
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