New Books in Public Policy

Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber, "Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story Behind Zobrest V. Catalina Foothills School District" (U Illinois Press, 2020)

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpr...

Josh Chin and Liza Lin, "Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As we build the AI-powered digital economy, how far do we want to go? Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control ...

Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality (U Minnesota Press, 2022) investigates the exclusion of and discrimination against disabled peo...

Eric A. Posner, "How Antitrust Failed Workers" (Oxford UP, 2021)

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Eric Posner about his book How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford UP, 2021). When anti-trust cases are brought forward, typically t...

Kate Mangino, "Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home" (St. Martin’s Press, 2022)

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From gender expert and professional facilitator Kate Mangino comes Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home (St. Martin’s Press, 2022), a...

Survival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics?

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can genetics play a role in crafting left social policy? Or should we not touch those ideas ever again–even with a 10 foot pole? Paige Harden’s bo...

Phillip B. Levine, "A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students—and Universities" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

According to A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students—and Universities (U Chicago Press, 2022) a college education ...

Decoteau Irby, "Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

An incisive case study of changemaking in action, Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership (Harvard Education Press, 2021) analyzes the...

Justin Grimmer et al., "Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences" (Princeton UP, 2022)

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the...

Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis, "Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing" (Regnery, 2022)

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

According to political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson and journalist Alexandra DeSantis, abortion harms everything it touches. It is an act of lethal vi...

The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Before Remdesivir and Hydroxycloroquin there was Tamiflu. To prepare for Swine Flu and Bird Flu, governments spent billions stockpiling this drug call...

Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speech, hate speech, disinformation, propaganda campaigns, incitement of...

The Heroin Clinic

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This...

Howard Yaruss, "Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know" (Prometheus Books, 2022)

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Incomes are stagnating, middle-class jobs are disappearing, economic growth is slowing, and the meager gains are mostly going to those who are already...

Jillian Peterson and James Densley, "The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic" (Harry N. Abrams, 2021)

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Using data from the writers' groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence...

This is Your Brain on Trial

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine reading or watching The Minority Report and thinking of that as a model for the criminal justice system. Well, plenty of forensic types are ...

John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins, "Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Wartime military service is held up as a marker of civic duty and patriotism, yet the rewards of veteran status have never been equally distributed. C...

Pathological: The Work of Dr. Charles Smith

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Charles Smith performed autopsies at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, ON. The cops kept turning to him with new corpses, and he kept cla...

Merlin Chowkwanyun, "All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health" (UNC Press, 2022)

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Health care is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation ...

Derailed: The Crisis of Forensic Expertise

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to complex social problems, us “sensible” types turn to the experts, but what if they don’t actually know what they’re talking a...

Mélissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1960s and 1970s, the exposure of Big Tobacco’s aggressive lobbying and internal efforts to obscure science showcasing the harmful effects of ...

Addressing Hunger, Food Insecurity--Local Solutions to a Global Problem

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We live in a time of food paradox. In a world of historically unprecedented abundance, many don’t have enough to eat. Life-limiting obesity coexists...

John A. List, "The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale" (Currency, 2022)

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to John List about his book The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale (Currency, 2022). Want to go on an...

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Before 1973's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, abortion in California was illegal for both doctors performing and women seeking the procedure. In From ...

Mathew Lawrence and Adrienne Buller, "Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis" (Verso, 2022)

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adrienne Buller (The Value of a Whale) and Mathew Lawrence (Planet on Fire) have penned a radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic...

Postscript: How the Supreme Court Overturned a Century-Old Gun Law…and Changed American Jurisprudence

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s Postscript (a special series that allows scholars to comment on pressing contemporary issues) focuses on the US Supreme Court and the Seco...

The Poison Paradigm: What a Toxic Chemical Tells us about the Politics of Science

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals daily. This is no accident; it is by design. They are everywhere – coating our consumer products, in ...

Rochelle DuFord, "Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory" (Stanford UP, 2022)

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Of all the concepts that form the constellation of modern political thought, surely “solidarity” is a strong candidate for the most challenging. A...

Samuel Evan Milner, "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America" (Yale UP, 2021)

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Concentrated market power and the weakened sway of corporate stakeholders over management have emerged as leading concerns of American political econo...

Paris Marx, "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation" (Verso, 2022)

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Verso, 2022), Paris Marx identifies two convergent forces in...

Max Foran, "The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife: Failures of Principle and Policy" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for a...

The Future of Net Zero: A Discussion with Eric Lonergan

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There is no shortage of words written about climate change and the goal of reaching net zero - but there is a shortage of practical suggestions about ...

Plague Robbers--Nothing Spreads Like Greed: The Pandemic Profiteers Who Made the Crisis Worse

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Has the pandemic taught us anything? As we look forward and imagine what the future might look like, we like to think ‘next time will be different.’...

Christopher Witko, "Hijacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021)

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do competing interests shape public policy? Why are the economic interests and priorities of lower-, working-, and middle-class Americans often ne...

Roselyn Hsueh, "Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Roselyn Hsueh’s Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism (Cambridge, 2022) presents a new framework for understanding how developing countrie...

Lindy S. F. Hern, "Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement (Palgrave Ma...

Jamie Ducharme, "Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul" (Henry Holt, 2021)

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It began with a smoke break. James Monsees and Adam Bowen were two ambitious graduate students at Stanford, and in between puffs after class they drea...

Eviatar Zerubavel, "Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology" (Oxford UP, 2020)

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Defying the conventional split between “theory” and “methodology,” Eviatar Zerubavel's Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven So...

Susan C. Boyd, "Heroin: An Illustrated History" (Fernwood, 2022)

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Susan Boyd is a scholar/activist and Distinguished Professor emerita at the University of Victoria. Her research examines a variety of topics rela...

Jeffrey S. Sutton, "Who Decides?: States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation" (Oxford UP, 2021)

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Everything in law and politics, including individual rights, comes back to divisions of power and the evergreen question: Who decides? Who wins the di...

Ronald Meester and Klaas Slooten, "Probability and Forensic Evidence: Theory, Philosophy, and Applications" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Probability and Forensic Evidence: Theory, Philosophy, and Applications (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ronald Meester and Klaas Slooten address the role ...

The Future of Political Anger: A Conversation with Mark Blyth

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Trump’s voters. The yellow jackets in France. Putin’s base in Russia. The Brexiteers. One thing all these groups have in common is anger – anger...

Nasar Meer, "The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice" (Policy Press, 2022)

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Rac...

American Chernobyl, Part 2: The Most Poisonous Place in the USA

05 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. In our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant's largely-forgotten history--how it poisoned the...

America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Cited: What it means to live in a place where your home can give you cancer. Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up ...

Nick Huntington-Klein, "The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality" (CRC Press, 2021)

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inference...

Charlie Jeffries, "Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Utilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Charlie Jeffries' Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S....

Ethan W. Ris, "Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, E...

Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism ...

Socialise the Series of Tubes: Toward a Democratic Internet

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Recently a major outage took nearly a third of Canada offline. No phone, no internet… even access to 911 got shut down in some places. So why does o...

Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is part two of a two part interview. Mark Solovey’s ‘Social Science for What?’ is essential reading for anyone in either the history of sc...

Will Jawando, "My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole" (FSG, 2022)

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized. As a boy growin...

Erica Gies, "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Trouble with water – increasingly frequent, extreme floods and droughts – is one of the first obvious signs of climate change. Meanwhile, urban sp...

Paisley Currah, "Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex...

Anthony Abraham Jack, "The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students" (Harvard UP, 2019)

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a m...

Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedom" (Duke UP, 2022)

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Freedom is often considered the cornerstone of the American political project. The 1776 revolutionaries declared it an inalienable right that could ne...

Michael S. Roth, "Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses" (Yale UP, 2021)

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto, Safe Enough Spaces (Yale UP, 2021) on the crises confronting ...

Heejung Chung, "The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation" (Polity Press, 2022)

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why are we working harder? In The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation (Polity Press, 2022), Heejung Chung, a pr...

The Grift of Meritocracy: All About Grifting (Inside and Outside of the Academy)

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our society is dominated by grifters. Cheats, cons, frauds: people who don’t really believe what they tell you. They’re just what they need to do ...

Effective Altruism: What it is, What it Does, and How You Can Help

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

80,000 Hours provides research and support to help students and graduates switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing pro...

Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What?: Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is part one of a two part interview. "The social sciences have prospered best in the federal government where they have been included under broad...

Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner, "The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" (MIT Press, 2022)

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be (MIT Press, 2022), Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth in...

Exiled in America: About the Lives of Registered Sex Offenders

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Before Darts and Letters there was a documentary series called Cited. This is one of those documentaries. This episode is about the lives of sex offen...

Prison Notebooks: Thinking (and Writing) about Incarceration

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I can point you to mountains of research about prisons. I can also recommend at least a dozen Netflix documentaries, and highlight a handful of radica...

Marc F. Bellemare, "Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t" (MIT Press, 2022)

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Graduate students and newly-minted economists often find that while their time in graduate school taught them a lot about great research of the past a...

Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson, "The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, immigration has been one of the most divisive, contentious topics in American politics. And for decades, urgent calls for its policy refo...

Jonna Perrillo, "Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands (U Chicago Press, 2022) begins with the 144 children of Nazi scientists ...

Asim Qureshi, "I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security" (Manchester UP, 2020)

15 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more co...

Vivian Jing Zhan, "China's Contained Resource Curse: How Minerals Shape State Capital Labor Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Contrary to intuition, many countries have found that having abundant natural resources such as petroleum or diamonds may be a curse as much as a bles...

Colin Copus, "In Defence of Councillors" (Manchester UP, 2021)

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Defence of Councillors (Manchester UP, 2021) is an unashamed defence of local representative democracy and of those elected to serve as councillo...

Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century (Pegasus Books, 2022) ...

Scott Gehlbach, "Formal Models of Domestic Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Formal mathematical models have provided tremendous insights into politics in recent decades. Formal Models of Domestic Politics (Cambridge UP, 2021...

Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky, "Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power" (MIT Press, 2022)

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emergi...

Claire L. Wendland, "Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twenty-f...

The Future of Philanthropy: A Conversation with Emma Saunders-Hastings

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Philanthropists are praise for their generosity but does their desire to keep control of what happens to their donations mean they exercise power in w...

Does Financial Repression Work?

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Pettis is Professor of Finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. He started his career in banking in 1987 just in time f...

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, "Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation" (Verso, 2022)

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three decades, Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation (Verso, 2022) presents her si...

Joni Schwartz and John R. Chaney, "Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience" (Lexington Books, 2022)

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

While in no way supporting the systemic injustices and disparities of mass incarceration, in Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Exp...

Elizabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With me on today’s show is Professor Elizabeth Anker, whose most recent book, Ugly Freedoms (Duke UP, 2022), works to understand how the idea of f...

Alan Lane, "The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir" (Salamander Street, 2022)

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What happened to arts organisations during the pandemic? In The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir (Salamander Street, 2022), Alan Lane, A...

Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when...

HouseMate: Lessons from Singapore on How to Provide Universal Cheap Homeownership

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

While Australia prides itself on being an egalitarian society, and owning a detached house on fenced block of land plays a much-revered role in the Gr...

Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the United States, systemic racism is embedded in policies and practices, thereby structuring American society to perpetuate inequality and all of ...

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

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town (Beacon Press, 2022) paints an intimate portrait of the ...

Max Holleran, "Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing" (Princeton UP, 2022)

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A gro...

Shelly Oria and Kirstin Valdez Quade, "I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom" (McSweeney’s Books, 2022)

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shelly Oria has just produced an anthology of writings on reproductive freedom that is available now from McSweeney’s Books, in partnership with The...

Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022)

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Plan S: the open access initiative that changed the face of global research.  Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells's book Plan S for Shock: Science. S...

Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe: An American Story" (W. W. Norton, 2021)

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fra...

Mikaela Rabinowitz, "Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice" (Routledge, 2021)

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mikaela Rabinowitz’s Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice (Routledge, 20...

Judah Schept, "Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia" (NYU Press, 2022)

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. Mor...

James J. Connolly et al., "Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities" (Cornell UP, 2022)

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities (Cornell UP, 2022) examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United Sta...

David L. Sloss, "Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare" (Stanford UP, 2022)

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram were first introduced to the public, their mission was simple: they were designed to help people become...

Jennifer Natalya Fink, "All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship" (Beacon Press, 2022)

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Disability is often described as a tragedy, a crisis, or an aberration, though 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability. Why is this common human exp...

Rizwaan Sabir, "Shadows of Suspicion: Counterterrorism, Muslims and the British Security State" (Pluto Press, 2022)

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What impact has two decades' worth of policing and counterterrorism had on the state of mind of Muslims in Britain? In The Suspect: Counterterrorism,...

Lydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Guns hold a complex place in American culture. Over 30,000 Americans die each year from gun violence, and guns are intimately connected to issues of p...

Michael Munger, "The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises" (Duke UP, 2021)

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Transactions have always taken place. For hundreds of years that 'place' was a market or, more recently, a shopping mall. But in the past two decades ...

Nadia Y. Kim, "Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA" (Stanford UP, 2021)

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The air in Los Angeles can be lethal, and nobody knows this better than the city’s Latinx and Asian immigrants, argues Dr. Nadia Kim in Refusing De...

A Discussion with Lynn Pasquerella, President of the American Association of Colleges & Universities

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode features a wide-ranging discussion with Dr. Lynn Pasquerella, the President of the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&...

R. John Aitken, "The Infertility Trap: Why Life Choices Impact your Fertility and Why We Must Act Now" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A potential crisis in human fertility is brewing. As societies become more affluent, they experience changes that have a dramatic impact on reproducti...

Danya Glabau, "Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A detailed exploration of parents' fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy The su...