Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
Benjamin Y. Fong is author of the new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, whi... Read more
15 Aug 2023
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45mins
Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda
Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda
Midcentury America was governed from the center, a bipartisan consensus of politicians and public opinion that supported... Read more
15 Aug 2023
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18mins
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
Katie Wells, a Postdoctoral Fritz Fellow with Georgetown University's Tech and Society Initiative, and Kafui Attoh, Asso... Read more
14 Aug 2023
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1hr 20mins
Keith A. Mayes, "The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Keith A. Mayes, "The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education (U Minnesota Press, 2023) examines the ... Read more
13 Aug 2023
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58mins
Michell D. Jones and Elisabeth A. Nelson, "Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920" (New Press, 2023)
Michell D. Jones and Elisabeth A. Nelson, "Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920" (New Press, 2023)
What if prisoners were to write the history of their own prison? What might that tell them--and all of us--about the roo... Read more
9 Aug 2023
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1hr 4mins
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Why do we protect free speech? What values does it serve? How has the Supreme Court interpreted the First Amendment? Wha... Read more
9 Aug 2023
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1hr 9mins
Flora Samuel, "Housing for Hope and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
Flora Samuel, "Housing for Hope and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
Housing and neighborhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the worl... Read more
7 Aug 2023
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59mins
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
Postscript invites scholars to react to contemporary political events and today’s podcast welcomes an expert on domestic... Read more
7 Aug 2023
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46mins
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran, "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy" ((Harvard Education Press, 2023)
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran, "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy" ((Harvard Education Press, 2023)
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran propose that, even as events of this decade have exposed stress points in existing to... Read more
6 Aug 2023
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35mins
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, "Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England" (MIT Press, 2023)
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, "Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England" (MIT Press, 2023)
An intimate account of rural New England families living on the edge of homelessness, as well as the practices and polic... Read more
4 Aug 2023
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36mins