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Social Sciences
1451
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
1452
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
1453
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
1454
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
1455
Russell A. Newman, "The Paradoxes of Network Ne...
Newman sets out to provide an explication of the debates surrounding network neutrality...
39 min
1456
SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer o...
In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...
75 min
1457
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
1458
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...
48 min
1459
Leah Stokes, "Short Circuiting Policy: Interest...
44 min
1460
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
1461
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
1462
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
1463
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
1465
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
1466
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
1467
Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: America...
How did the modern, American body come into being?
47 min
1468
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.
46 min
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Alice Hill, "Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How...
Hill and Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on climate change issues...
41 min
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Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration E...
Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States...
40 min
1471
Matt Grossmann, "Red State Blues: How the Conse...
Grossmann finds that, overall, the size of state governments was not reduced under conservative leadership...
32 min
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David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: D...
Pettinicchio offers a history of the political development of disability rights in the United States...
22 min
1473
Darius Sollohub, "Millennials in Architecture: ...
Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth...
48 min
1474
David Brooks, "The Second Mountain: The Quest f...
There is a growing mismatch between the culture of many campuses, and the challenges young people will face in their careers, politics and personal live...
29 min
1475
Taylor Pendergrass, "Six by Ten: Stories from S...
Long-term solitary confinement meets the legal definition of torture, and yet solitary confinement is used in every state in the United States...
74 min