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Marisa Holmes, "Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

47 mins; August 26, 2023

Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, "Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

29 mins; August 26, 2023

Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)

73 hours 23 mins; August 26, 2023

Jamie Rife and Donald W. Burnes, "Journeys Out of Homelessness: The Voices of Lived Experience" (Lynne Rienner, 2020)

98 hours 9 mins; August 25, 2023

Erica O. Turner, "Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

45 mins; August 25, 2023

Smita A. Rahman et al., "Globalizing Political Theory" (Routledge, 2022)

49 mins; August 24, 2023

Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring, "Disability, Care and Family Law" (Routledge, 2021)

66 hours 57 mins; August 23, 2023

Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)

35 mins; August 23, 2023

Postscript: Guns, Violence, and the Law: How Federal Courts are Trying to Figure Out the Second Amendment

52 mins; August 22, 2023

Erin Raffety, "From Inclusion to Justice: Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership" (Baylor UP, 2022)

41 mins; August 22, 2023

Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)

56 mins; August 21, 2023

Christopher C. Sellers, "Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

66 hours 6 mins; August 21, 2023

Ian Convery et al., "Routledge Handbook of Rewilding" (Routledge, 2022)

35 mins; August 20, 2023

The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health

14 mins; August 18, 2023

Jennifer Keys Adair and Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, "Segregation by Experience: Agency, Racism, and Learning in the Early Grades" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

35 mins; August 18, 2023

Sharada Sugirtharajah, "Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)

41 mins; August 17, 2023

Lauren S. Foley, "On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies" (NYU Press, 2023)

35 mins; August 16, 2023

Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

22 mins; August 16, 2023

Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda

18 mins; August 15, 2023

Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)

45 mins; August 15, 2023

How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh

80 hours 4 mins; August 14, 2023

Keith A. Mayes, "The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

58 mins; August 13, 2023

Michell D. Jones and Elisabeth A. Nelson, "Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920" (New Press, 2023)

64 hours 24 mins; August 09, 2023

Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

69 hours 30 mins; August 09, 2023

Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court

46 mins; August 07, 2023

Flora Samuel, "Housing for Hope and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)

59 mins; August 07, 2023

Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran, "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy" ((Harvard Education Press, 2023)

35 mins; August 06, 2023

Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, "Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England" (MIT Press, 2023)

36 mins; August 04, 2023

Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

16 mins; August 04, 2023

Thurka Sangaramoorthy, "Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America" (UNC Press, 2023)

57 mins; August 03, 2023

Olivier Burtin, "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

43 mins; August 03, 2023

Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)

40 mins; August 02, 2023

Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh

73 hours 59 mins; July 31, 2023

Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)

37 mins; July 30, 2023

When Did We See You a Stranger and Welcome You? (with Ben Metcalf)

52 mins; July 27, 2023

Postscript: Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?

54 mins; July 24, 2023

Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)

58 mins; July 18, 2023

Brendan O'Brien, "Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It" (Chicago Review Press, 2023)

37 mins; July 18, 2023

Juliet Schor, "After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back" (U California Press, 2021)

57 mins; July 17, 2023

Stephen Bright and James Kwak, "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts" (The New Press, 2023)

46 mins; July 15, 2023

Sofya Aptekar, "Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat" (MIT Press, 2023)

64 hours 11 mins; July 14, 2023

Nour Halabi, "Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

39 mins; July 13, 2023

J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)

57 mins; July 12, 2023

Methadone and Covid-19

56 mins; July 12, 2023

Morgan L. W. Hazelton and Rachael K. Hinkle, "Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making" (UP Kansas, 2022)

55 mins; July 10, 2023

Tina Shrestha, "Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York" (U Washington Press, 2023)

101 hours 0 mins; July 09, 2023

Brent Cebul, "Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

77 hours 37 mins; July 09, 2023

Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)

38 mins; July 08, 2023

Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)

43 mins; July 08, 2023

Apostolos Andrikopoulos, "Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

47 mins; July 05, 2023

Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox, "Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)

54 mins; July 05, 2023

The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo

53 mins; July 03, 2023

G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)

72 hours 53 mins; July 02, 2023

Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

55 mins; June 29, 2023

Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire, "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School" (The New Press, 2023)

44 mins; June 28, 2023

Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

59 mins; June 28, 2023

Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

36 mins; June 27, 2023

Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)

57 mins; June 27, 2023

Stephen Vladeck, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic" (Basic Books, 2023)

62 hours 59 mins; June 26, 2023

Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)

82 hours 18 mins; June 25, 2023

Erik Kojola, "Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range" (NYU Press, 2023)

31 mins; June 23, 2023

Ngaire Naffine, "Criminal Law and the Man Problem" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

33 mins; June 23, 2023

Postscript: Politics, Identity, and the US Supreme Court

59 mins; June 23, 2023

Catherine Carstairs, "The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

71 hours 25 mins; June 22, 2023

The Ascendance of Social Conservatism in the Public Square

55 mins; June 20, 2023

John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)

36 mins; June 20, 2023

David A. Banks, "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America" (U California Press, 2023)

51 mins; June 19, 2023

Deborah Stevenson, "Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Value, Work and the Social" (Edward Elgar, 2023)

44 mins; June 16, 2023

Housing Insecurity and Homelessness: A Nonprofit Approach

30 mins; June 14, 2023

Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2023)

58 mins; June 13, 2023

Patrick J. Charles, "Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)

42 mins; June 10, 2023

Tessa Farmer, "Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

42 mins; June 08, 2023

Mark R. Warren, "Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (Oxford UP, 2021)

37 mins; June 07, 2023

Arseli Dokumaci, "Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" (Duke UP, 2023)

74 hours 38 mins; June 07, 2023

Amanda Apgar, "The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

39 mins; June 06, 2023

J. T. Roane, "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place" (NYU Press, 2023)

66 hours 13 mins; June 04, 2023

Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)

90 hours 34 mins; June 04, 2023

Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)

38 mins; June 01, 2023

Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss, "The 'Third' United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think" (Oxford UP, 2021)

39 mins; May 31, 2023

Orly Lobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" (PublicAffairs, 2022)

55 mins; May 31, 2023

Assessing Affirmative Action: A Conversation with Jason Riley

42 mins; May 29, 2023

Scott Timcke, "The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune: Prospects for Prosperity in Our Times" (Bristol UP, 2023)

36 mins; May 25, 2023

May Hara and Annalee G. Good, "Teachers as Policy Advocates: Strategies for Collaboration and Change" (Teachers College Press, 2023)

36 mins; May 24, 2023

Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoe Meleo Erwin, "Decolonize Self-Care" (OR Books, 2022)

48 mins; May 24, 2023

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

66 hours 0 mins; May 24, 2023

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

55 mins; May 21, 2023

Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)

43 mins; May 20, 2023

Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

48 mins; May 20, 2023

Rob Verchick, "The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience" (Columbia UP, 2023)

75 hours 12 mins; May 19, 2023

Eugene Lipov and Jamie Mustard, "The Invisible Machine: The Startling Truth About Trauma and the Scientific Breakthrough That Can Transform Your Life" (BenBella Books, 2023)

41 mins; May 18, 2023

Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

53 mins; May 18, 2023

Farah Godrej, "Freedom Inside?: Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State" (Oxford UP, 2022)

65 hours 52 mins; May 18, 2023

Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein, "The Incommunicados" (Center for Study of Responsive Law, 2023)

26 mins; May 18, 2023

Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

44 mins; May 17, 2023

America & Democracy Ep. 2: Jonathan M. Berman on Anti-Vaxxers

39 mins; May 17, 2023

America & Democracy Ep. 1: Robert I. Rotberg on Corruption

33 mins; May 16, 2023

Michelle Smirnova, "The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain" (Duke UP, 2023)

64 hours 7 mins; May 14, 2023

Justine Ellis, "The Politics of Religious Literacy: Education and Emotion in a Secular Age" (Brill, 2022)

66 hours 53 mins; May 14, 2023

Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt, "Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)

28 mins; May 13, 2023

Jacqueline Mondros and Joan Minieri, "Organizing for Power and Empowerment: The Fight for Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2023)

35 mins; May 11, 2023

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