New Books in Public Policy
Episodes
Matthew Ricketson and Patrick Mullins, "Who Needs the ABC?: How Digital Disruption and Political Dysfunction Threaten the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Existence" (Scribe, 2022)
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hello media fans - The ABC is Australia's public broadcaster, for TV, digital and radio. Think BBC and CBC and NPR. Who Needs the ABC?: How Digital...
Ioana Florea et al., "Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) provides a comparative study of housing contenti...
Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner, "Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics" (U California Press, 2022)
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cannabis "legalization" hasn't lived up to the hype. Across North America, investors are reeling, tax collections are below projections, and people ar...
David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2010 it has been possible to determine a person's genetic makeup in a matter of days at an accessible cost for many millions of people. Along wi...
Richard Chataway, "The Behaviour Business: How to Apply Behavioural Science for Business Success" (Harriman House, 2020)
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Richard Chataway about his book The Behaviour Business: How to Apply Behavioural Science for Business Success (Harriman House, 2...
Stephen M. Wheeler and Christina D. Rosan, "Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities" (U California Press, 2021)
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What would it take to make urban places greener, more affordable, more equitable, and healthier for everyone? In recent years, cities have stepped up ...
Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs, 2022), Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan reveal the true story of im...
Colleen Wessel-McCoy, "Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign" (Fortress Academic, 2021)
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. looked over into the promised land and tried to discern how we would get there, he called the poor to le...
Steven G. Epstein, "The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since the 1970s, health professionals, researchers, governments, advocacy groups, and commercial interests have invested in the pursuit of something c...
Sean J. Drake, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2022)
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb (U California Press, 2022), sociologist Sean J. Drake addresses...
Farah Nayeri, "Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age" (Astra Publishing, 2022)
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon—kings, popes, and one-party states decided what was considered obscene, blasphemous, or...
The Future of Neoliberalism: A Conversation with Gary Gerstle
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The word neoliberalism is often used more as an insult than a description of a set of beliefs. And people can be rather hazy about the beliefs it refe...
Ellen Schrecker, "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked Am...
Christopher W. Wells, "Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader" (U Washington Press, 2018)
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence—but these developm...
Kennan Ferguson, ed., "The Big No" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Big No (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is an edited volume, assembled and overseen by political theorist Kennan Ferguson, who also provides the Introdu...
Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success" (Public Affairs, 2022)
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social discourse—yet, in most cases, the things we belie...
Heba Gowayed, "Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential" (Princeton UP, 2022)
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the world confronts the largest refugee crisis since World War II, wealthy countries are being called upon to open their doors to the displaced, wi...
Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned cognitive psychologist Stephen Kosslyn about h...
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick et al., "Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice" (Oxford UP, 2022)
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being, minimize suffering. Sounds simple, right...
Donald A. Barclay, "Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Does the idea of a world in which facts mean nothing cause anxiety? Fear? Maybe even paranoia? Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Po...
Maha Hilal, "Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11 published in 2022 with Broadleaf Books, Maha...
Mark Neocleous, "The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies" (Verso, 2022)
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how ...
Postscript: Post-Roe Politics
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Postscript uniquely engages abortion politics by addressing structural political issues (voter suppression, gerrymandering, dilutions of m...
Postscript: Post-Roe Politics
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Postscript uniquely engages abortion politics by addressing structural political issues (voter suppression, gerrymandering, dilutions of m...
Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to John Tregoning, Imperial College respiratory infections...
Eve Ng, "Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eve Ng’s new book Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), examines the phenomenon of "cancel culture" from a critical medi...
Mark V. Tushnet, "The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark V. Tushnet's book The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 (Cambridge UP, 2022) describes the closing of one era in con...
The Problem with Museums: A Conversation with Georgina Adam and Nizan Shaked
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the past few years, museums of contemporary art have come under a fair deal of scrutiny. Pressures from groups such as Decoloinise This Space or ...
The Future of Opinion Polls: A Conversation with Mark Pack
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the culture wars intensify, it seems that all sources of neutral authority get challenged and that includes opinion polls. Accusations about bias a...
LaGina Gause, "The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Does protest influence political representation? If so, which groups are most likely to benefit from collective action? The Advantage of Disadvantage...
Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan E. Kallman, "Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world—from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments—s...
Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to bestselling author and University of Oxford law profess...
John Zerilli, "A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2022)
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracke...
K. Grabska and C. R. Clark-Kazak, "Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscu...
The Future of Statues: A Conversation with Alex Von Tunzelmann
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are the rights and wrongs of toppling statues? Sometimes everyone agrees it’s a good idea. After the second world war, for example, the defeat ...
Kim Kelly, "Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor" (Atria, 2022)
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights ...
Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned UC San Diego neurophilosopher Patricia Churchl...
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support, a...
Florence Ashley, "Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis" (U British Columbia Press, 2022)
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NB: This interview contains explicit language. In Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis (U British Columbia Press, 2...
The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Race is the subject of passionate and increasingly angry debate. But amidst all the talk of unconscious bias it’s an area into which many fear to tr...
Barry Eichengreen et al., "In Defense of Public Debt" (Oxford UP, 2021)
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Th...
Sidney G. Tarrow, "Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are th...
Kristin Henning, "The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth" (Pantheon Books, 2021)
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.'s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America's i...
Megan Birk, "The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but forgo...
Nina M. Yancy, "How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America (Oxford UP, 2022) explores the connection between prejudice and place i...
M. Bianet Castellanos, "Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtness in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2020)
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal hous...
Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory. Effective democratization can always be measured by this essential crite...
Zarak Khan and Laurel Newman, "Building Behavioral Science in an Organization" (Action Design Press, 2021)
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Zarak Khan and Laurel Newman about their book Building Behavioral Science in an Organization (Action Design Press, 2021). As an a...
Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2021), Deborah Gordon shows that no two oils or gases a...
Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. ...
Jennifer Delfino, "Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children" (Lexington Book, 2020)
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children (Lexington Books, 2020), Jennifer Delfino explores the lingui...
Kelly Bauer, "Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The 1980s and '90s saw Latin American governments recognizing the property rights of Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities as part of a broader t...
Ruchika Tulshyan, "Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work" (MIT Press, 2022)
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Few would disagree that inclusion is both the right thing to do and good for business. Then why are we so terrible at it? If we believe in the moralit...
Lindsey Krinks, "Praying with Our Feet: Pursuing Justice and Healing on the Streets" (Brazos, 2021)
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Praying with Our Feet: Pursuing Justice and Healing on the Streets (Brazos Press, 2021), written by Lindsey Krinks was published by Baker Publishing ...
Maia Szalavitz, "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction" (Hachette, 2021)
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction (Hachette Go, 2021) tells a long-running, but largely unknown, story o...
Matt Sheedy, "Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility " (Routledge, 2021)
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility (Routledge, 2021), Matt Sheedy, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Unive...
A Conversation with Autumn Wilke about Disability in Higher Education
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Autumn Wilke of Grinnell College about her book (co-authored with Nancy J. Evans, Ellen M. Broido, and Kirsten R. Brown) Disab...
Jennifer Petersen, "How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech" (Duke UP, 2022)
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech (Duke University Press, 2022), Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of h...
John A. List, "The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale" (Currency, 2022)
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most economists would argue that policies and business strategies are most likely to succeed if they are evidence-based, with their efficacy demonstra...
Pandemic Perspectives 6: COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned University of Cambridge political theorist Joh...
Laura J. Martin, "Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration" (Harvard UP, 2022)
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Environmental restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern. Governments, nonprofits, private corporations, and other institutions spe...
Erin Metz McDonnell, "Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States" (Princeton UP, 2020)
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly ...
The Future of Life Expectancy: A Discussion with Angus Deaton
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, Professor Angus Deaton of Princeton University and his wife Professor Anne Case published a paper highlighting the rising mortality rate amon...
Vicki Squire, "Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2020...
Elisabeth Anderson, "Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State" (Princeton UP, 2021)
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers’ efforts to appeal to ...
R. Douglas Arnold, "Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age" (Princeton UP, 2022)
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement. Yet demographic trends—longer lifespans and decli...
Hanna Hilbrandt, "Housing in the Margins: Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens" (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Housing in the Margins: Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens (John Wiley & Sons, 2021) offers a theoretically informed and em...
Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost, "The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America" (NYU Press, 2015)
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate―five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the ...
Michele Acuto, "How to Build a Global City: Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination" (Cornell UP, 2022)
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In How to Build a Global City: Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination (Cornell University Press, 2022), Michele Acuto conside...
Pandemic Perspectives 5: Necessarily Global--How the Pandemic Forces Us To Think Bigger
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Andy Hoffman, the dynamic and innovative business profes...
Karl Kitching, "Childhood, Religion and School Injustice" (Cork UP, 2020)
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Childhood, Religion, and School Injustice (Cork University Press, 2020), Dr. Karl Kitching examines how debates about religion and education inte...
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, "Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left ...
Zeynep Pamuk, "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" (Princeton UP, 2021)
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our ability to act on some of the most pressing issues of our time, from pandemics and climate change to artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons, ...
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro, "The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It" (Harvard UP, 2020)
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is an age of crisis. That much we can agree on. But a crisis of what? And how do we get out of it? Many on the right call for tax cuts and deregu...
Richard K. Rein, "American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life" (Island Press, 2022)
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On an otherwise normal weekday in the 1980s, commuters on busy Route 1 in central New Jersey noticed an alarming sight: a man in a suit and tie dashin...
Paige Sweet, "The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath" (U California Press, 2021)
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For women who have experienced domestic violence, proving that you are a “good victim” is no longer enough. Victims must also show that they are r...
Erin L. Thompson, "Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments" (Norton, 2022)
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, the national debate over public monuments often frames the removal of statutes as a revision of history. But Dr. Thompson sugg...
Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rura...
Kate Guthrie, "The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain" (U California Press, 2021)
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC Proms to Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, initiatives to promote classical music have been a pervasive feature of twentieth-century m...
Eve Worth, "The Welfare State Generation: Women, Agency and Class in Britain Since 1945" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand the history of post-war Britain? In The Welfare State Generation Women, Agency and Class in Britain since 1945 (Bloomsbury,...
Jan-Werner Müller, "Democracy Rules" (FSG, 2021)
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Jan-Werner Müller, author of the widely translated and acclai...
Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla, "Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication" (NYU Press, 2021)
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scholars Heather Hlavka (Marquette University) and Sameena Mulla (Emory University) have written a new book that examines and interrogates the place a...
Pandemic Perspectives 3: A Conversation with Samuel Moyn
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence a...
Rob Percival, "The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat" (Pegasus, 2022)
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies, by geopolitical tensions, and the evolution of cultural pre...
Ian Tyrrell, "American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Tyrrell's American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea (UChicago Press, 2021) is a powerful dissection of a core American myth. The id...
Howard Burton, "Pandemic Perspectives: A Filmmaker's Journey in 10 Essays" (Open Agenda, 2022)
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Howard Burton has been talking to very wise people for decades--scientists, historians, political thinkers, philosophers, etc. When Covid "hit" he was...
Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021)
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our s...
Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor, "Waiting for Gonski: How Australia Failed Its Schools" (UNSW Press, 2022)
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone interested in how education policy is made and unmade, in school funding models, their historical and contemporary development and their effect...
Andrew Rudalevige, "By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power" (Princeton UP, 2021)
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Rudalevige, the Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government at Bowdoin College, has a new book that examines the processes that transpires in...
Carl Erik Fisher, "The Urge: Our History of Addiction" (Penguin, 2022)
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best way to treat i...
Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell, "Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, tech...
Bruce Wydick, "Shrewd Samaritan: Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving Our Global Neighbor" (Thomas Nelson, 2019)
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we each do our part to reduce inequality and help the poor, not just in our own communities but around the world? As a devout Christian, Bruce...
Susan Oman, "Understanding Well-being Data: Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we understand well-being? In Understanding Well-being Data: Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research (Palgrave Macmillan,...
Sarah Brayne, "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing" (Oxford UP, 2020)
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Police use of advanced data collection and analysis technologies—or, "big data policing"—continues to receive both positive and negative attention...
76 Land-Grab Universities with Robert Lee (Jerome Tharaud, JP)
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John and new Brandeis host Jerome Tharaud (author of Apocalyptic Geographies) learn exactly how the growth of America's public universities relied...
Susan J. Dunlap, "Shelter Theology: The Religious Lives of People without Homes" (Fortress Press, 2021)
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Shelter Theology: The Religious Lives of People without Homes (Fortress Press, 2021), Susan J. Dunlap offers the theological fruits of time spent...
Piers Gooding, "A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This book cuts new ground by applying a human rights lens of analysis to domestic mental health laws. It makes a timely contribution into the discours...
Carl Rhodes, "Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy" (Policy Press, 2021)
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Carl Rhodes about his book Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy (Policy Press, 2021). When Milton Frie...
Gaye T. Lansdell et al., "Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021) delves into an under-researche...
David Boarder Giles, "A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities" (Duke UP, 2021)
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities (Duke UP, 2021), David Boarder Giles explores the way...