New Books in Public Policy

Interviews with Scholars of Public Policy about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
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Arlie Loughnan, "Self, Others and the State: Re...
Loughnan questions assumptions about the rise and prominence of criminal responsibility from the late colonial period until recent times...
58 min
1252
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Carl Suddler, "Presumed Criminal: Black Youth a...
Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely...
62 min
1254
Simon Bowmaker, "When the President Calls: Conv...
What is it like to sit in the Oval Office and discuss policy with the president?
21 min
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Govind Gopakumar, "Installing Automobility: Eme...
Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South...
53 min
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Howard Friedman, "Ultimate Price: The Value We ...
What is the price of a life?
43 min
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Paul M. Renfro, "Stranger Danger: Family Values...
Renfro narrates how the bereaved parents of missing and slain children turned their grief into a mass movement and, alongside journalists and policymakers from both major political parties, propelled a moral panic...
31 min
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Patrick M. Condon, "Five Rules for Tomorrow’s C...
How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet...
54 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Great Books: Melissa Schwartzberg on Rousseau's...
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
57 min
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Lloyd B. Minor, "Discovering Precision Health" ...
Our conversation covers innovative progress underway in replacing reactive medicine with precision and prevention...
55 min
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K. Aronoff, et al., "A Planet to Win: Why We Ne...
In early 2019, freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Ed Markey proposed a bold new piece of legislation, now very well known as the Green New Deal.,,
102 min
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Kristian Ly Serena, "Age-Inclusive Public Space...
Public spaces tend to over-represent facilities and spatial design for the young and the middle-aged, whereas elderly citizens are all too often neglected by contemporary urban design practice....
45 min
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Travis Lupick, "Fighting for Space: How a Group...
Lupick explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city’s response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens...
50 min
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Jonathan Barnett, "Designing the Megaregion: Me...
Barnett describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment,..
60 min
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Anna Arstein-Kerslake, "Restoring Voice to Peop...
Arstein-Kerslake discusses situations where people with cognitive impairments are unjustifiably denied the right to make their own choices...
52 min
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
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Andrew Leigh, "Randomistas: How Radical Researc...
Randomized control trials, called RCT’s, have a logic so simple that anyone can understand how they work and even run them themselves...
38 min
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Sara Hughes, "Repowering Cities: Governing Clim...
Hughes creatively combines the literature on cities with a comparative case study of three American cities to explore how New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto moved from making commitments to fulfilling them...
50 min
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Elizabeth A. Wheeler, "HandiLand: The Crippest ...
Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how far American society has progressed toward social justice and how much remains to be done...
56 min
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Diane Jones Allen, "Lost in the Transit Desert:...
Jones Allen investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected...
44 min
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Josh Seim, "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulanc...
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city?
58 min
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Sandro Galea, "Well: What We Need to Talk About...
Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health...
24 min
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Jennifer E. Gaddis, "The Labor of Lunch: Why We...
Gaddis aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed...
57 min
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Lana Dee Povitz, ​"Stirrings: How Activist New ...
Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net...
35 min