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The Everyday Feminist with Latanya Mapp Frett

46 mins; May 11, 2023

Karin Chenoweth, "Districts That Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)

47 mins; May 09, 2023

Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)

45 mins; May 09, 2023

Stephen G. Post, "Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

53 mins; May 08, 2023

Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi, "The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism" (Princeton UP, 2023)

82 hours 10 mins; May 07, 2023

Carceral Capitalism

24 mins; May 05, 2023

Reece Jones, "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall" (Beacon Press, 2021)

61 hours 43 mins; May 04, 2023

Brian Palmer-Rubin, "Evading the Patronage Trap: Interest Representation in Mexico" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

52 mins; May 04, 2023

Susan Hartman, "City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town" (Beacon Press, 2022)

43 mins; May 02, 2023

Brian Domitrovic, "The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

43 mins; May 01, 2023

The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy

62 hours 1 min; April 28, 2023

Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

48 mins; April 27, 2023

Rachael Gabriel, "How Education Policy Shapes Literacy Instruction" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

47 mins; April 26, 2023

Brett Christophers, "Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World" (Verso, 2023)

74 hours 56 mins; April 25, 2023

Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston, "The Transgender Studies Reader Remix" (Routledge, 2022)

59 mins; April 24, 2023

Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

63 hours 30 mins; April 24, 2023

Kerri Lynn Stone, "Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

47 mins; April 21, 2023

Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller, "Inequality across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

50 mins; April 16, 2023

Freddy Foks, "Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain" (U California Press, 2023)

71 hours 15 mins; April 14, 2023

Abortion and the Law

109 hours 59 mins; April 12, 2023

Rajesh Veeraraghavan, "Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Reform in India" (Oxford UP, 2022)

68 hours 9 mins; April 11, 2023

The Cooperative Extension System

21 mins; April 10, 2023

Howard Gillette, Jr., "The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

60 hours 58 mins; April 09, 2023

Antero Garcia, "All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

50 mins; April 06, 2023

Solving Public Problems with Beth Noveck

45 mins; April 03, 2023

Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)

57 mins; April 02, 2023

Eli Elinoff, "Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)

43 mins; April 01, 2023

Administrative State 101: A Conversation with Adam J. White

49 mins; March 30, 2023

Mark Robert Rank, "The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity" (Oxford UP, 2023)

33 mins; March 29, 2023

Woodrow Hartzog, "Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" (Harvard UP, 2018)

26 mins; March 28, 2023

The Future of Political Time and Space: A Discussion with Jan Zielonka

47 mins; March 28, 2023

Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)

51 mins; March 27, 2023

Kristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)

64 hours 26 mins; March 26, 2023

Derek Hanley, "Photos from the Front Lines: A Year on the Streets of Alameda County" (2022)

52 mins; March 25, 2023

Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S Jacobs, "Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor" (U California Press, 2023)

64 hours 37 mins; March 25, 2023

Adam Sowards, "Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

52 mins; March 24, 2023

The Future of Genes and Equality: A Discussion with Kathryn Paige Harden

40 mins; March 22, 2023

Leigh Goodmark, "Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism" (U California Press, 2023)

59 mins; March 22, 2023

Erin Raffety, "Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

43 mins; March 21, 2023

Daniel L. Hatcher, "Injustice, Inc.: How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor" (U California Press, 2023)

63 hours 52 mins; March 21, 2023

Liz Curran, "Better Law for a Better World: New Approaches to Law Practice and Education" (Routledge, 2021)

70 hours 43 mins; March 20, 2023

Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson, "Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions" (Routledge, 2020)

30 mins; March 20, 2023

Felicity Hwee-Hwa Chan, "Tensions in Diversity: Spaces for Collective Life in Los Angeles" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

68 hours 55 mins; March 18, 2023

Mareike Schomerus, "Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

71 hours 44 mins; March 15, 2023

Roger Biles and Mark H. Rose, "A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945" (Temple UP, 2022)

64 hours 48 mins; March 15, 2023

Rosalynn A. Vega, "Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine" (U Texas Press, 2023)

55 mins; March 15, 2023

Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left" (Hurst, 2023)

76 hours 23 mins; March 12, 2023

Aya Homei, "Science for Governing Japan's Population" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

53 mins; March 10, 2023

Measure for Measure Episode 6: IQ

25 mins; March 07, 2023

Raina Lipsitz, "The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics" (Verso, 2022)

38 mins; March 05, 2023

Jovan Scott Lewis, "Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa" (Duke UP, 2022)

55 mins; March 05, 2023

Nicola Rollock, "The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival" (Penguin, 2022)

44 mins; March 05, 2023

Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

66 hours 12 mins; March 03, 2023

Rebecca Gayle Howell et al., "What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

30 mins; March 02, 2023

Ronald L. Trosper, "Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands" (U Arizona Press, 2022)

49 mins; March 01, 2023

Richard McGahey, "Unequal Cities: Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)

33 mins; March 01, 2023

Frances Howard, "Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs: How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference" (Policy Press, 2022)

41 mins; February 27, 2023

Mary Crossley, "Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

66 hours 54 mins; February 26, 2023

Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)

55 mins; February 23, 2023

Jane Lasonder, "Red Alert: The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking" (Scholten Uitgeverij BV, 2016)

62 hours 39 mins; February 22, 2023

David Bond, "Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment" (U California Press, 2022)

68 hours 0 mins; February 21, 2023

Leila Jancovich and David Stevenson, "Failures in Cultural Participation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

67 hours 38 mins; February 20, 2023

Joseph Plaster, "Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin" (Duke UP, 2023)

65 hours 37 mins; February 20, 2023

Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)

63 hours 33 mins; February 19, 2023

Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)

88 hours 29 mins; February 19, 2023

Robyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott, "Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2022)

74 hours 3 mins; February 18, 2023

Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)

30 mins; February 18, 2023

Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)

54 mins; February 17, 2023

John Peters and Don Wells, "Canadian Labour Policy and Politics" (UBC Press, 2022)

57 mins; February 17, 2023

The Politics of Bicycling

91 hours 3 mins; February 16, 2023

The History of Student Loans in the United States

66 hours 53 mins; February 14, 2023

How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?

56 mins; February 13, 2023

Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility: A Conversation with Arthur Caplan

60 hours 33 mins; February 13, 2023

Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy

86 hours 9 mins; February 12, 2023

ALICE and Economic Hardship in the United States

61 hours 27 mins; February 11, 2023

Max Bazerman, "Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop" (Princeton UP, 2022)

26 mins; February 09, 2023

We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States

54 mins; February 09, 2023

Energy Costs, Poverty, and Race

59 mins; February 09, 2023

Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione, "Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities" (MIT Press, 2022)

60 hours 13 mins; February 08, 2023

Michael Murawski, "Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)

49 mins; February 07, 2023

The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”

84 hours 4 mins; February 04, 2023

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, "Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

48 mins; February 03, 2023

Iza Ding, "The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)

45 mins; February 03, 2023

Border Lines: Refugees and the International Order

24 mins; February 02, 2023

Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch, "How Cities Can Transform Democracy" (Polity Press, 2022)

69 hours 53 mins; February 01, 2023

Derrick Darby, "A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight" (Oxford UP, 2022)

78 hours 1 min; February 01, 2023

Alexandre I. R. White, "Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease" (Stanford UP, 2023)

103 hours 13 mins; January 30, 2023

Peter Jones and Kristel van Ael, "Design Journeys Through Complex Systems" (Bis Publishers, 2022)

62 hours 40 mins; January 29, 2023

Virtually Violent: Are Online Attacks "Violence?"

23 mins; January 26, 2023

Seeing Truth in Museums

46 mins; January 26, 2023

Sheri Brenden, "Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

48 mins; January 25, 2023

Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)

52 mins; January 24, 2023

The History of Temp Work

71 hours 52 mins; January 24, 2023

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)

76 hours 29 mins; January 24, 2023

Liran Einav et al., "Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It" (Yale UP, 2023)

69 hours 57 mins; January 21, 2023

Steffen Mau, "Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century" (Polity Press, 2022)

42 mins; January 18, 2023

Shifting Blame: What Should You "Own" and What Shouldn't You?

27 mins; January 18, 2023

How Did the Pandemic Transform Workers and Work?

37 mins; January 16, 2023

Eternity Now: Talking about Mysticism with the Apostle to the Gangs of LA

49 mins; January 14, 2023

The Future of Inequality: A Discussion with Mike Savage

42 mins; January 13, 2023

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