Steven Higashide, "Better Buses, Better Cities ...
Higashide shows us what a successful bus system looks like with real-world stories of reform—such as Houston redrawing its bus network overnight,
46 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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Daniel Skinner, "Medical Necessity: Health Care...
Skinner constructs a comprehensive understanding of the politics of defining medical necessity...
29 min
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Steve Suitts, "Overturning Brown: The Segregati...
Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist practices and the modern school choice movement...
28 min
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Virginia Eubanks, "Automating Inequality: How H...
Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America...
Bruce explores how various legal graffiti scenes across the United States, Mexico, and Europe provide diverse ways for artists to navigate their changing relationships with publics, institutions, and commercial entities...
62 min
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Robert Frank, "Under the Influence: Putting Pee...
Frank describes how the strongest predictor of our willingness to support climate-friendly policies, install solar panels, or buy an electric car is the number of people we know who have already done so...
26 min
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Jodie Adams Kirshner, "Broke: Hardship and Resi...
Kirshner tells the story of the people of Detroit before, during, and after its bankruptcy, offering lessons about urban governance, post-industrial economics, development, and the usefulness of bankruptcy itself as a tool to aid U.S. cities...
25 min
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Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title...
"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed
60 min
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T. Mose "The Playdate" (NYU Press, 2016) and L....
In this episode we consider vital role of play, and what it does to expand a child’s creativity and resilience...
28 min
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David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe, "Obstacle Cour...
It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access to necessary health care...
34 min
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Russell A. Newman, "The Paradoxes of Network Ne...
Newman sets out to provide an explication of the debates surrounding network neutrality...
39 min
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SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer o...
In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...
75 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Michael Menser, "We Decide!: Theories and Cases...
Menser a comprehensive treatment of participatory democracy, in which he delves into the history of democracy and offers an optimistic vision of the future of democratic participation in various forms and at different scales...
Daniel Denvir, "All-American Nativism: How the ...
The profound forces of all-American nativism have, in fact, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that, for many people,..
40 min
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Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politi...
Over the last several years, overdose prevention has become the unlikely object of a social movement, powered by the miracle drug naloxone...
37 min
1294
Ian Wray, "No Little Plans: How Government Buil...
Wray’s book goes in search of an America shaped by government, plans and bureaucrats, not by businesses, bankers and shareholders. He demonstrates that government plans did not damage American wealth. On the contrary, they built it, and in the most profound ways...
51 min
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Nicci Gerrard, "The Last Ocean: A Journey Throu...
Dementia provokes profound moral questions about our society and the meaning of life itself...
33 min
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Ben Green, "The Smart Enough City: Putting Tech...
The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has capture the imaginations of policymakers, scholars, and urban-dweller. But what are the possible drawbacks of living in an environment that is constantly collecting data?
31 min
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Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and ...
Dimova-Cookson offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and negative freedom building on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin...
38 min
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Wendy Bottero, "A Sense of Inequality" (Roman a...
Bottero offers a detailed and challenging new approach to how we conceive of, how we study, and how we might challenge, social inequality...
37 min
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Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: America...
How did the modern, American body come into being?
47 min
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Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller, "The Po...
Blocher and Miller insist that the Second Amendment is widely recognized but fundamentally misunderstood by the public and public officials. Misconceptions about what the amendment allows, forbids, and how it function as law distort American debates and public policy.