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S4E4 In Defense of Bad Science and the Philosophy of Being
42 mins; September 04, 2024
Jonathan Gienapp, "Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique" (Yale UP, 2024)
81 hours 26 mins; September 03, 2024
Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
79 hours 2 mins; September 03, 2024
Karyne E. Messina, "The Power of Community: A 45 Day Action Plan to Stop Trump from Turning Our Democracy into His Autocracy" (PI Press, 2024)
54 mins; September 01, 2024
Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
20 mins; August 31, 2024
Radio Reorient Season 11: A Wrap Up and Round Up
43 mins; August 29, 2024
The Human Advantage: A Conversation with Jay Richards
54 mins; August 28, 2024
Hope Bohanec, "The Humane Hoax: Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs" (Lantern Publishing, 2023)
74 hours 9 mins; August 26, 2024
Damaging Rationality: Exxon-Funded Legal Research and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
73 hours 50 mins; August 25, 2024
Claire Carter et al., "Contemporary Vulnerabilities: Reflections on Social Justice Methodologies" (U Alberta Press, 2024)
81 hours 25 mins; August 23, 2024
Peter Allen, “The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
41 mins; August 20, 2024
Raj Jayadev, "Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration" (New Press, 2023)
32 mins; August 18, 2024
12 Angry Alaskans: Re-Examining the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Case
72 hours 30 mins; August 16, 2024
Matthew Archer, "Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability" (NYU Press, 2024)
42 mins; August 16, 2024
Policing and White Power with Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham (JP, EF)
39 mins; August 15, 2024
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
55 mins; August 15, 2024
Decoloniality
41 mins; August 15, 2024
Is Islamophobia Racism?
25 mins; August 14, 2024
Miguel Montalva Barba, "White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space" (Policy Press, 2024)
53 mins; August 14, 2024
Craig Gent, "Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work" (Verso, 2024)
56 mins; August 13, 2024
Aimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
45 mins; August 12, 2024
Benjamin C. Waterhouse on "One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America"
85 hours 35 mins; August 12, 2024
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 2
54 mins; August 09, 2024
Daniel Kahneman’s Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research
65 hours 15 mins; August 09, 2024
Jason Blakely, "Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
40 mins; August 06, 2024
Emily Cousens, "Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
46 mins; August 06, 2024
Thomas A. Kerns and Kathleen Dean Moore, "Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change" (Oregon State UP, 2021)
51 mins; August 06, 2024
Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
51 mins; August 05, 2024
Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)
86 hours 14 mins; August 04, 2024
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
46 mins; August 03, 2024
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 1
53 mins; August 02, 2024
Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
55 mins; August 01, 2024
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
72 hours 28 mins; July 31, 2024
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
39 mins; July 28, 2024
Postscript: Changing Dynamics in the Presidential Race, 2024
55 mins; July 25, 2024
Anne Applebaum, "Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
45 mins; July 23, 2024
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
38 mins; July 22, 2024
Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023)
72 hours 46 mins; July 21, 2024
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
58 mins; July 21, 2024
Krista E. Hughes et al., "Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World" (Penn State UP, 2019)
87 hours 27 mins; July 20, 2024
Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
39 mins; July 20, 2024
Hamilton Nolan, "The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor" (Hachette Books, 2024)
54 mins; July 19, 2024
Seth A. Berkowitz, "Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
28 mins; July 18, 2024
Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
74 hours 48 mins; July 17, 2024
Mónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024)
87 hours 14 mins; July 14, 2024
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
41 mins; July 14, 2024
Maya Wind, "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom" (Verso, 2024)
48 mins; July 12, 2024
Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
52 mins; July 11, 2024
Wendy Matsumura, "Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
59 mins; July 11, 2024
Kellie Carter Jackson, "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance" (Seal Press, 2024)
57 mins; July 10, 2024
Premal Dharia et al., "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change" (FSG Originals, 2024)
31 mins; July 09, 2024
Dmitri Alperovitch, "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
48 mins; July 06, 2024
Jessie Abrahams, "Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class" (Bristol UP, 2024)
55 mins; July 06, 2024
Samira Mehta, "The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging" (Beacon Press, 2023)
57 mins; July 05, 2024
Daniel Susskind, "Growth: A History and a Reckoning" (Harvard UP, 2024)
66 hours 23 mins; July 03, 2024
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
47 mins; July 02, 2024
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
69 hours 12 mins; July 01, 2024
Kehbuma Langmia, "Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga" (Anthem Press, 2024)
44 mins; July 01, 2024
Felicia Arriaga, "Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America" (UNC Press, 2023)
60 hours 51 mins; June 30, 2024
Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider, "The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual" (The New Press, 2024)
31 mins; June 27, 2024
Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)
48 mins; June 27, 2024
Postscript: Unpacking the 2024 U.S. Presidential Debate, Conventions, and Polling
45 mins; June 24, 2024
Andreas Fulda, "Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security" (Bloombury, 2024)
59 mins; June 22, 2024
Johanna Oksala, "Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology" (Northwestern UP, 2023)
82 hours 10 mins; June 20, 2024
Postscript: Previewing the 2024 Presidential Race
55 mins; June 17, 2024
Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)
46 mins; June 15, 2024
More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
47 mins; June 13, 2024
Nivedita Menon, "Secularism As Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South" (Duke UP, 2024)
69 hours 14 mins; June 13, 2024
What and Why are Political Beliefs? A Conversation with Oliver Traldi
55 mins; June 12, 2024
Timothy Morton, "Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology" (Columbia UP, 2024)
67 hours 1 min; June 12, 2024
Laura GĂłmez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)
63 hours 24 mins; June 11, 2024
Jason Read, "The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work" (Verso, 2024)
72 hours 9 mins; June 08, 2024
Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
64 hours 10 mins; June 08, 2024
Mark Robert Rank, "The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us" (U California Press, 2024)
37 mins; June 04, 2024
Emma Heaney, "Feminism Against Cisness" (Duke UP, 2024)
46 mins; June 04, 2024
We Should Not Take the UN For Granted: A Discussion with Abiodun Williams
33 mins; June 04, 2024
Ronald R. Sundstrom, "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 45 mins; June 01, 2024
Anne Kim, "Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor" (The New Press, 2024)
28 mins; May 30, 2024
Benjamin A. Schupmann, "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
41 mins; May 30, 2024
Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan, "1/6, The Graphic Novel: What if the Attack on the U.S. Capitol had Succeeded?" (Sun Print Solutions, 2023)
57 mins; May 26, 2024
Tad Delay, "Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change" (Verso, 2024)
65 hours 45 mins; May 26, 2024
Premilla Nadasen, "Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" (Haymarket Books, 2023)
70 hours 19 mins; May 25, 2024
Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton, "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison" (Routledge, 2023)
36 mins; May 24, 2024
American Innovation, American Vitality: A Conversation with Chris Buskirk
61 hours 9 mins; May 22, 2024
Sunaura Taylor, "Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert" (U California Press, 2024)
77 hours 2 mins; May 21, 2024
Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)
42 mins; May 20, 2024
Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, "Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2024)
57 mins; May 19, 2024
Mona Simion, "Resistance to Evidence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
57 mins; May 19, 2024
Todd Mcgowan, "Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves" (Repeater, 2024)
57 mins; May 18, 2024
M. Steven Fish, "Comeback: Routing Trumpism, Reclaiming the Nation, and Restoring Democracy's Edge" (Rivertowns Books, 2024)
113 hours 33 mins; May 14, 2024
Can the Constitution Still Unite Us?: A Conversation with Yuval Levin
53 mins; May 14, 2024
Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)
38 mins; May 13, 2024
Maria Cristina Garcia, "State of Disaster: The Failure of U. S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change" (UNC Press, 2022)
50 mins; May 12, 2024
Alissa Quart, "Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream" (Ecco Press, 2023)
63 hours 29 mins; May 11, 2024
Kate Maclean, "Cash, Clothes, and Construction: Rethinking Value in Bolivia's Pluri-economy" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
61 hours 22 mins; May 11, 2024
Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere, "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power" (MIT Press, 2024)
39 mins; May 10, 2024
Book Banning: A Discussion with Christine Emeran of the National Coalition Against Censorship
45 mins; May 09, 2024
Battlefield to Big Sky: A Conversation with Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy
29 mins; May 08, 2024
Sami Hermez, "My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine" (Redwood Press, 2024)
49 mins; May 07, 2024
Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
46 mins; May 05, 2024
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