New Books in Public Policy
Episodes
Anita Hannig, “Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Anita Hannig‘s first book, Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital (University of Chicago Press, 2017) is an in-depth...
Melvin R. Adams, “Atomic Geography: A Personal History of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation” (Washington State University Press, 2016)
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In May, a tunnel filled with radioactive waste collapsed at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state, making international news. This incid...
Daniel P. Keating, “Born Anxious: The Lifelong Impact of Early Life Adversity” (St. Martin’s Press, 2017)
03 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Anxiety has become a social epidemic. People feel anxious all the time about nearly everything: their work, families, and even survival. However, rese...
“Latino City Part II: An Interview with Llana Barber.”
27 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) Dr. Llana Barber explore...
Jordan Lacey, “Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
15 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design (Bloomsbury 2016) by Jordan Lacey offers a practice-led alternative approach to urba...
Tom Adam Davies, “Mainstreaming Black Power” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
14 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is Black Power? Does it still exist in the so-called post-racial 21st Century? How does Black Power relate to similar movements, like Black Lives...
Oscar Fernandez, “The Calculus of Happiness” (Princeton UP, 2017)
11 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The book discussed here is entitled The Calculus of Happiness: How a Mathematical Approach to Life Adds Up to Health, Wealth, and Love (Princeton Univ...
Peter John Chen, “Animal Welfare in Australia: Politics and Policy” (Sydney UP, 2016)
11 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Animal Welfare in Australia: Politics and Policy (Sydney University Press, 2016), Peter John Chen, a senior lecturer in political science at the Un...
Mary E. Adkins, “Making Modern Florida: How the Spirit of Reform Shaped a New State Constitution” (University Press of Florida, 2016)
31 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mary E. Adkins has written Making Modern Florida: How the Spirit of Reform Shaped a New State Constitution (University Press of Florida, 2016), an acc...
Christopher Mele, “Race and the Politics of Deception: The Making of an American City” (NYU Press, 2017)
27 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Urban sociologists typically use a few grand narratives to explain the path of the American city through the twentieth century and into the twenty-fir...
Lee Trepanier, ed. “Why the Humanities Matter Today: In Defense of Liberal Education” (Lexington Books, 2017)
26 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Trepanier, Professor of Political Science at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan, edited this important analysis of why the humanities mat...
David Garland, “The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction” (Oxford UP, 2016)
15 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is a welfare state? What is it for? Does the U.S. have one? Does it work at cross-purposes to a free-market economy or is it, in fact, essential ...
B. Harrison and M. Michelson, “Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights” (Oxford UP, 2017)
04 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brian F. Harrison and Melissa R. Michelson‘s, Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017) is ...
Lotta Bjorklund Larsen,”Shaping Taxpayers: Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency” (Berghahn Books, 2017)
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How do you make taxpayers comply? Lotta Bjorklund Larsen‘s ethnography, Shaping Taxpayers: Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency (Berghahn Boo...
Stafanie Deluca, et.al. “Coming of Age in the Other America” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2016)
26 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Do you think that what poor people most need to escape poverty is grit? Join us as we speak with Stefanie Deluca, co-author, along with Susan Clampet-...
Rosemary Corbett, “Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Controversy” (Stanford UP, 2016)
23 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Among the most powerful and equally insidious aspects of the new global politics of religion is the discourse of religious moderation that seeks to pr...
John Hudak, “Marijuana: A Short History” (Brookings, 2016)
15 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
John Hudak‘s book Marijuana: A Short History (Brookings Institutions Press, 2016) is an accessible and informative dive into marijuana on a number o...
Benjamin Hale, “The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature” (MIT Press, 2016)
15 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Many environmentalists approach the problem of motivating environmentally friendly behavior from the perspective that nature is good and that we ought...
Timothy D. Walker, “Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms” (W. W. Norton, 2017)
12 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Tim Walker, the author of Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017)....
Eugene Raikhel, “Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic” (Cornell UP, 2016)
11 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Alcoholism is a strange thing. That it exists, no one seriously doubts. But it’s not entirely clear (diagnostically speaking) what it is, who has it...
Michael Diamond, “Discovering Organizational Identity: Dynamics of Relational Attachment” (U. of Missouri, 2016)
10 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Psychological and psychoanalytic principles are often associated with individuals and therapist-client pairs, though they have plenty to bear on under...
Michael A. McCarthy, “Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal” (Cornell UP, 2017)
07 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Over half of Americans approaching retirement age report having no money saved for retirement, but how did we get here as a nation? In his book, Disma...
Cristina Bicchieri, “Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms” (Oxford UP, 2017)
01 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Humans engage in a wide variety of collective behaviors, ranging from simple customs like wearing a heavy coat in winter to more complex group actions...
Michaela DeSoucey, “Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food” (Princeton UP, 2016)
25 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A heritage food in France, and a high-priced obscurity in the United States. But in both countries, foie gras, the specially fattened liver of a duck ...
Pat Farenga on John Holt’s “Freedom and Beyond” (HoltGWS LLC, 2017)
21 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Pat Farenga about the new edition of John Holt’s Freedom and Beyond (HoltGWS LLC, 2017). This book offers a broad crit...
Daniel Immerwahr, “Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development” (Harvard UP, 2015)
17 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Modernization dominates development’s historiography. Historians characterize moments in development’s history–from the Tennessee Valley Authori...
Joan Maya Mazelis, “Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor” (NYU Press, 2017)
16 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A number of recent events (the Great Recession, Occupy Wall Street, the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign) have brought inequality and poverty into...
Travis Linnemann, “Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power” (NYU Press, 2016)
15 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If all you knew about methamphetamines came from popular culture (“Breaking Bad”) or government anti-drug campaigns (“Faces of Meth”), then yo...
Veronica Herrera, “Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico” (U. Michigan Press, 2017)
06 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Veronica Herrera has written Water & Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Herrera is assistant profe...
Randy Stoecker, “Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement” (Temple UP, 2016)
03 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s common for colleges in the U.S. to have service learning programs of one kind or another. These are sometimes criticized as being liberal or ev...
Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy” (The New Press, 2017)
27 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How might we account for the rapid rise of for-profit educational institutions over the past few decades, who are the students who attend them, how ca...
Amy Brown, “A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School (U. Minnesota Press, 2015)
23 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There has been much talk in the news recently about funding for public education, the emergence of charter schools, and the potential of school vouche...
Kathleen Dolan, “When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections” (Oxford UP, 2014)
21 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Does sex play a determinative role in political contests? Recognising the dual political realities of voters holding gender stereotypes and female can...
Harris Beider, “White Working-Class Voices: Multiculturalism, Community-Building, and Change” (Policy Press, 2015)
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Harris Beider is the author of White Working-Class Voices: Multiculturalism, Community-Building, and Change (Policy Press, 2015). Beider is chair in C...
Mical Raz, “What’s Wrong with the Poor: Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty” (UNC Press, 2016)
17 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In What’s Wrong with the Poor: Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), Mical Raz offers a deep dive int...
Ellen Hazelkorn, “The Civic University: The Policy and Leadership Challenges” (Edward Elgar, 2016)
15 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen Hazelkorn, Policy Advisor to the Higher Education Authority (HEA), and Director, Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Dublin Institute...
Justin Parkhurst, “The Politics of Evidence: From Evidence-Based Policy to the Good Governance of Evidence” (Routledge, 2016)
30 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is the role of evidence in the policy process? In The Politics of Evidence: From Evidence-Based Policy to the Good Governance of Evidence (Routle...
Karen J. Greenberg, “Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State” (Crown Publishers, 2016)
27 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The 9/11 attacks revealed a breakdown in American intelligence and there was a demand for individuals and institutions to find out what went wrong, co...
K. Sabeel Rahman, “Democracy Against Domination” (Oxford UP, 2016)
23 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sabeel Rahman is the author of Democracy Against Domination (Oxford University Press, 2016). Rahman is assistant professor of law at Brooklyn Law Scho...
Andrew Scull, “Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity” (Princeton UP, 2015)
20 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The wish to understand mental suffering is universal and requires an appreciation for its history. Since Biblical times, humans have understood madnes...
Alan J. Levinovitz, “The Limits of Religious Tolerance” (Amherst College Press, 2016)
14 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Pope said that Donald Trump wasn’t much of a Christian if all he can think about is building walls. Trump replied that it was “disgraceful” ...
Joshua Howe, “Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming” (U. Washington Press, 2016)
10 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The year 2016 was the hottest year on record, and in recent months, drought and searing heat have fanned wildfires in Fort McMurray Alberta and in Gat...
Rebecca S. Natow, “Higher Education Rulemaking: The Politics of Creating Regulatory Policy” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
04 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca S. Natow, Senior Research Associate with the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, joins New Books Netwo...
Jen Manion, “Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America” (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
19 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jen Manion is an associate professor of history at Amherst College. Her book Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (University of P...
Marc Sageman, “Misunderstanding Terrorism” (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
14 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Misunderstanding Terrorism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) Marc Sageman provides an important reassessment of the global neojihadi threat ...
Paul Benneworth et al., “The Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research” (Palgrave, 2016)
13 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future for Arts and Humanities in Europe? The podcast discusses these questions with Paul Benneworth, one of the authors, along with Magnu...
Jessica van Horssen, “A Town Called Asbestos” (UBC Press, 2016)
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 2012, Canada stopped mining and exporting asbestos. Once considered a miracle mineral for its fireproof qualities, asbestos came to be better known...
Jean-Germain Gros, “Healthcare Policy in Africa” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
02 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Healthcare Policy In Africa: Institutions and Politics from Colonialism to the Present (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), Jean-Germain Gros argues tha...
Karen Tani, “States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights and American Governance, 1935-1972” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
28 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What new can there be to say about the New Deal? Perhaps more than you think. Join us as Karen Tani talks about her new book, States of Dependency: We...
Vicki Lens, “Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in Court” (Oxford UP, 2015)
21 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been said that for poor and low-income Americans, the law is all over. Join us for a conversation with Vicki Lens, who, in Poor Justice: How th...
Christopher Faricy, “Welfare for the Wealthy: Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the United States” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
12 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Faricy makes a return visit to New Books Network for Part II of a conversation about Welfare for the Wealthy: Parties, Social Spending, an...
Daniel Hatcher, “The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens” (NYU Press, 2016)
08 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
American social welfare programs are rife with fraud — but its not the kind of fraud most people think of. Daniel Hatcher, Professor of Law at the U...
Susan Greenbaum, “Blaming the Poor: The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty” (Rutgers UP, 2015)
06 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Moynihan’s Report on the Negro Family was a seminal document in Great Society-era racial politics and public policy. Join us as we talk with...
Heather Ann Thompson, “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy” (Pantheon, 2016)
01 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 1971, prisoners took over Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. The uprising followed a wave of protests in prisons and jails across th...
Kate Merkel-Hess, “The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
01 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Merkel-Hess‘s new book looks closely at a loose group of rural reformers in 1920s and 1930s China who were trying to create a rural alternative...
James D. Boys, “Hillary Rising: The Politics, Persona, and Policies of a New American Dynasty” (Biteback Publishing, 2016)
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
James D. Boys is the author of Hillary Rising: The Politics, Persona, and Policies of a New American Dynasty (Biteback Publishing, 2016). Boys is an a...
Suja A. Thomas, “The Missing American Jury: Restoring the Fundamental Constitutional Role of the Criminal, Civil, and Grand Juries” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Suja A. Thomas, a professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law, has written The Missing American Jury: Restoring the Fundamental Cons...
Michael Copperman, “Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta” (U. Press of Mississippi, 2016)
27 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who has spent time in a school as an adult probably knows how hard it is for teachers to leave their work when they come home every night. Ther...
Jonathan Todres and Sarah Higinbotham, “Human Rights in Children’s Literature: Imagination and the Narrative of the Law” (Oxford UP, 2016)
18 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others? In Human Rights in Children’s Literature: Imagination and t...
Nicholson Baker, “Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids” (Blue Rider Press, 2016)
18 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Parents often wonder what their children do at school all day. How different is it from what they remember years ago? Teachers often hear similar ques...
Patricia Strach, “Hiding Politics in Plain Sight: Cause Marketing, Corporate Influence, and Breast Cancer Policymaking” (Oxford UP, 2016)
17 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we hear from Patricia Strach, the author of Hiding Politics in Plain Sight: Cause Marketing, Corporate Influence, a...
Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore, “Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2015)
11 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How do new policies move from one city or country to another, and is there something distinct about how those transfers work in our perpetually accele...
John Owens, “Confessions of a Bad Teacher: The Shocking Truth from the Frontline of American Public Education” (Sourcebooks, 2013)
10 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As you spend more time working in one role, organization, or field, it can become easy to lose perspective on how your work is similar or different fr...
Adam Benforado, “Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice” (Penguin Random House, 2016)
08 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Why is our criminal justice system so unfair? How do innocent men and women end up serving long sentences while the guilty roam free? According to law...
Daniel Amsterdam, “Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State” (Penn Press, 2016)
03 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On the podcast this week is Daniel Amsterdam, author of Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State (Penn Press, 2016). He ...
Milton Chen, “Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools” (Jossey Bass, 2012)
26 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It feels like schools are in the midst of unprecedented change — sometimes more in different places and sometimes more in different ways. Many peopl...
James Waller, “Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide” (Oxford UP, 2016)
21 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today is the third of our occasional series on the question of how to respond to mass atrocities. Earlier this summer I talked with Scott Straus and B...
Katherine Turk, “Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
19 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Turk is assistant professor of history at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her book Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Mo...
Megan Tompkins Stange, “Policy Patrons: Philanthropy, Education Reform, and the Politics of Influence” (Harvard Education Press, 2016)
19 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Tompkins-Stange is the author of Policy Patrons: Philanthropy, Education Reform, and the Politics of Influence (Harvard Education Press, 2016). ...
Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth, “America Abroad: The United States’ Role in the 21st Century” (Oxford UP, 2016)
16 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A decade and a half of exhausting wars, punishing economic setbacks, and fast-rising rivals has called into question America’s fundamental position ...
Barbara Hahn and Bruce Baker, “The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans” (Oxford UP, 2015)
16 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
With the recent economic collapse and rising income inequality, lessons drawn from turn-of-the century capitalism have become frequent. Pundits, polic...
Holly Allen, “Forgotten Men and Fallen Women: The Cultural Politics of New Deal Narratives” (Cornell UP, 2015)
14 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Forgotten Men and Fallen Women: The Cultural Politics of New Deal Narratives (Cornell University Press, 2015), Holly Allen offers a fascinating ana...
Darian M. Parker, “Sartre and New Child Left Behind: An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling” (Lexington, 2015)
12 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Darian M. Parker joins the New Books Network to discuss his recently published book, Sartre and No Child Left Behind: An Existential Psychoanalytic An...
Donald Kettl, “Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Competence” (Brookings Press, 2016)
12 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Kettl is the author of Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Competence (Brookings Press, 2016). Kettl is professor of ...
Sam Quinones, “Dreamland: The True Tale of American’s Opiate Epidemic” (Bloomsbury Press, 2015)
08 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 2000s, the press–at least in Boston, where I was living at the time–was full of shrill stories about drug-crazed addicts breaking int...
Prerna Singh, “How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
07 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Prerna Singh has written How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Singh is...
Nicole Nguyen, “A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public Schools” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
07 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It can be tempting to generalize certain attributes of schools as either being good or bad. Magnet and charter schools are often characterized as bein...
Grant Lichtman, “#EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education” (Jossey-Bass, 2014)
29 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Whatever your role — teacher, principal, or superintendent — when you work in a school system, you experience tensions between your reasons for go...
Matt Renwick, “Digital Student Portfolios: A Whole School Approach to Connected Learning and Continuous Assessment” (Theory and Practice, 2014)
26 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Most of the time, school performance is not like performance in other arenas. In music, we want people to play something for us. In sports, we want pe...
Campbell F. Scribner, “The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy” (Cornell UP, 2016)
25 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Battles over school politics from curriculum to funding to voucher systems are key and contentious features of the political landscape today. Many of ...
Samantha Barbas, “Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America” (Stanford Law Books, 2016)
25 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America (Stanford Law Books, 2016), Samantha Barbas provides a history of Americans’ use of...
Ron Berger, et. al. “Learning that Lasts: Challenging, Engaging, and Empowering Students with Deeper Instruction” (Jossey-Bass, 2016)
24 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The school structures we present to teachers can sometimes resemble two extremes. In the first set of circumstances, teachers have enormous autonomy o...
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, “Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol” (UC Press, 2010)
23 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As evidenced by many of the conversations featured on this podcast, scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands composes a significant and influential ...
Jason Stahl, “Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945” (U. of North Carolina Press, 2016)
15 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Stahl is the author of Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 20...
Zachary Roth, “The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy” (Crown, 2016)
10 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we feature two new books on the podcast, both about corporate power. First, Zachary Roth has written The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, C...
Ingrid Piller, “Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics” (Oxford UP, 2016)
03 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
According to the blurb, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics (Oxford University Press, 2016) “explor...
Eric Schickler, “Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965” (Princeton UP, 2016)
01 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Schickler is the author of Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965 (Princeton University Press, 2016). Schickler...
John Mollenkopf and Manuel Pastor, eds. “Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration” (Cornell UP, 2016)
27 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
John Mollenkopf and Manuel Pastor are the editors of Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration (Cornell...
Robert Boatright, ed. “The Deregulatory Moment? A Comparative Perspective on Changing Campaign Finance Laws” (U. of Michigan Press, 2015)
11 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Boatright, associate professor of political science at Clark University, is the editor of The Deregulatory Moment? A Comparative Perspective on...
William Resh, “Rethinking the Administrative Presidency: Trust, Intellectual Capital, and Appointee-Careerist Relations in the George W. Bush Administration” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
04 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
William Resh is the author of Rethinking the Administrative Presidency: Trust, Intellectual Capital, and Appointee-Careerist Relations in the George W...
Lance deHaven-Smith, “Conspiracy Theory in America” (U of Texas Press, 2014)
01 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Lance deHaven-Smith‘s Conspiracy Theory in America (University of Texas Press, 2014) investigates how the Founders’ hard-nosed realism about the l...
Mark Navin, “Values and Vaccine Refusal: Hard Questions in Epistemology, Ethics, and Health Care” (Routledge, 2016)
01 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Communities of parents who refuse, delay, or selectively decline to vaccinate their children pose familiar moral and political questions concerning pu...
Emily Schmitt and Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, “Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency”
06 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The application of behavioral science inside government has gained steam over the past few years with the creation of so-called “Nudge units” popp...
Roger Daniels, “Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939” (U Illinois Press, 2015)
02 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For all that has been written about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, many misconceptions about the man and his achievements continue to persist. Roger Danie...
Daniel E. Dawes, “150 Years of ObamaCare” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
30 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel E. Dawes has written 150 Years of ObamaCare (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016). Dawes is the executive director of health policy and extern...
Katie Gentile, ed., “The Business of Being Made” (Routledge, 2015)
28 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Dr. Katie Gentile discusses the research, writing and creative thinking about compulsory parenthood and Assisted Reproductive Techn...
Ira Lit, “The Bus Kids: Children’s Experiences with Voluntary Desegregation” (Yale UP, 2009)
18 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us are familiar with the court-mandated bussing programs created in an effort to achieve school desegregation in the 1960s and 1970s. Far fewe...
Nicole Rudolph, “At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort” (Berghahn Books, 2015)
17 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Rudolph‘s At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort (Berghahn Books, 2015) contributes to a growing body of sch...
Bernard Harcourt, “Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age” (Harvard UP, 2015)
17 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The landscape described in Bernard Harcourt‘s new book is a dystopia saturated by pleasure. We do not live in a drab Orwellian world, he writes. We ...
Malcolm James, “Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Transformations in a Global City” (Palgrave, 2015)
16 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How is youth culture changing in a globalised city? In Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Transformations in a Global City Malcolm James, a lectu...