New Books in Public Policy
Episodes
Kathryn J. Edin et al., "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America" (Mariner Books, 2023)
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in ...
Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Coleman, an historian at Texas State University, is the author of an important and topical book about immigration policy in the United States. ...
Hava Rachel Gordon, "This Is Our School!: Race and Community Resistance to School Reform" (NYU Press, 2021)
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Parents, educators, and activists are passionately fighting to improve public schools around the country. In This Is Our School!: Race and Community ...
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of...
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 18...
Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023)
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The “war on cancer” was launched during the Nixon Administration in 1971, but the term was part of the national dialog on cancer at least early as...
Asad L. Asad, "Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life" (Princeton UP, 2023)
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Because immigration is such a recurring-and divisive-topic in the United States, it is easy to assume that we understand what it means for an immigran...
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare...
Marisa Holmes, "Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wal...
Elly Fishman, "Refugee High: Coming of Age in America" (The New Press, 2021)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lit Hub's Most Anticipated of 2021. Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award. A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the high...
Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, "Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
26 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. In Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader ...
Jamie Rife and Donald W. Burnes, "Journeys Out of Homelessness: The Voices of Lived Experience" (Lynne Rienner, 2020)
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do individuals move from being homeless to finding safe, stable, and secure places to live? Can we recreate the conditions that helped them most? ...
Erica O. Turner, "Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At th...
Smita A. Rahman et al., "Globalizing Political Theory" (Routledge, 2022)
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Three political theorists, Smita A. Rahman (DePauw University), Katherine A. Gordy (San Francisco State University), and Shirin S. Deylami (Western Wa...
Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack. With declining enrollment and diminished trust in pub...
Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring, "Disability, Care and Family Law" (Routledge, 2021)
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Disability, Care and Family Law (Routledge 2021) examines the issues at the intersection of disability, care and family law. Professors Beverley Clo...
Postscript: Guns, Violence, and the Law: How Federal Courts are Trying to Figure Out the Second Amendment
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two blockbuster cases came down in June of 2022. The Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen...
Erin Raffety, "From Inclusion to Justice: Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership" (Baylor UP, 2022)
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
American Christianity tends to view disabled persons as problems to be solved rather than people with experiences and gifts that enrich the church. Ch...
Christopher C. Sellers, "Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis (U Georgia Press, 2023) turns an envi...
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively...
Ian Convery et al., "Routledge Handbook of Rewilding" (Routledge, 2022)
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Routledge Handbook of Rewilding (Routledge, 2022) provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and current practices of ‘rewilding’....
Jennifer Keys Adair and Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, "Segregation by Experience: Agency, Racism, and Learning in the Early Grades" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Early childhood can be a time of rich discovery, a period when educators have an opportunity to harness their students’ fascination to create unique...
The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We will not find “exposure to burning coal” listed as the cause of death on a single death certificate, but tens of thousands of deaths from asthm...
Sharada Sugirtharajah, "Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sharada Sugirtharajah's edited volume Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives on Happiness and Wellbeing (Routledge, 2022) explores the theme of ha...
Lauren S. Foley, "On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies" (NYU Press, 2023)
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Diversity in higher education is under attack as the Supreme Court limits the use of race-conscious admissions practices at American colleges and uni...
Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In P...
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Y. Fong is author of the new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, which was just released in July,...
Take Back the Center: Progressive Taxation for a New Progressive Agenda
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Midcentury America was governed from the center, a bipartisan consensus of politicians and public opinion that supported government spending on educat...
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Wells, a Postdoctoral Fritz Fellow with Georgetown University's Tech and Society Initiative, and Kafui Attoh, Associate Professor of Urban Studi...
Keith A. Mayes, "The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education (U Minnesota Press, 2023) examines the overrepresentation of Black s...
Michell D. Jones and Elisabeth A. Nelson, "Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920" (New Press, 2023)
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if prisoners were to write the history of their own prison? What might that tell them--and all of us--about the roots of the system that incarcer...
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we protect free speech? What values does it serve? How has the Supreme Court interpreted the First Amendment? What has the Court gotten right a...
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Postscript invites scholars to react to contemporary political events and today’s podcast welcomes an expert on domestic violence and firearms law ...
Flora Samuel, "Housing for Hope and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Housing and neighborhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. Housing for Hope and Wellb...
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran, "The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy" ((Harvard Education Press, 2023)
06 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Landon Mascareñaz and Doannie Tran propose that, even as events of this decade have exposed stress points in existing top-down, closed systems within...
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, "Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England" (MIT Press, 2023)
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An intimate account of rural New England families living on the edge of homelessness, as well as the practices and policies of care that fail them. F...
Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, larg...
Olivier Burtin, "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In examining how the veterans' movement inscribed martial citizenship onto American law, politics, and culture, A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizensh...
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, "Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America" (UNC Press, 2023)
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America (UNC Press, 2023) examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbe...
Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. The US g...
Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Hirsh, Professor of History at Virginia Tech, talks about his book, Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification ...
Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a m...
When Did We See You a Stranger and Welcome You? (with Ben Metcalf)
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The poor have always been with us, even in a rich country and a prosperous time. I ask Ben Metcalf, former Secretary of Housing and Community Developm...
Postscript: Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court recently wrapped up their term – and announced that they will hear a very controversial case about domestic abuse, the power of Co...
Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. Bu...
Brendan O'Brien, "Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It" (Chicago Review Press, 2023)
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nobody who sits in traffic on Sedona, Arizona's main stretch or stands shoulder-to-shoulder in its many souvenir shops would call it a ghost town. Nei...
Juliet Schor, "After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back" (U California Press, 2021)
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the "sharing economy" launched a decade ago, proponents claimed that it would transform the experience of work--giving earners flexibility, auton...
Stephen Bright and James Kwak, "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts" (The New Press, 2023)
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Ford, a Black man, spent thirty years on Louisiana’s death row for a crime he did not commit. He was released in 2014—and given twenty dolla...
Sofya Aptekar, "Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat" (MIT Press, 2023)
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country, the reality is that nearly 5 percent of all first-time...
Nour Halabi, "Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand contemporary migration policy? In Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration (Rutgers UP, 2022), Nour Ha...
Methadone and Covid-19
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Redmond is a Harlem-based documentary filmmaker, journalist, licensed clinical social worker, and professor at NYU. As senior editor and a multi...
J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as ac...
Morgan L. W. Hazelton and Rachael K. Hinkle, "Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making" (UP Kansas, 2022)
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Each June in the United States, scholars, journalists, law makers, law enforcers, lawyers, and members of the public wait for the announcement of majo...
Tina Shrestha, "Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York" (U Washington Press, 2023)
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are naviga...
Brent Cebul, "Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, the word "neoliberal" is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neoli...
Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people? To answer this question, Keisha Ray's book Black Health: The Soc...
Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can we build a better social and political settlement? In Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality (Policy Pr...
Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox, "Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold chang...
Apostolos Andrikopoulos, "Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In rapidly changing and highly precarious contexts, unauthorized African migrants turn to kinship in search of security, stability, and predictability...
The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It has been a momentous few weeks for the Supreme Court. What better time to discuss the Court's history and future? We are therefore launching our "S...
G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For nearly two decades the renowned legal historian G. Edward White has been writing a multi-volume history of law in America. In his third and conc...
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and the Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, ha...
Eileen V. Wallis, "California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eileen V. Wallis' book California and the Politics of Disability, 1850–1970 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) explores the political, legal, medical, and...
Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire, "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School" (The New Press, 2023)
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Across the U.S., state legislatures-often under the cover of darkness, and usually in spite of public opposition-are passing bills that channel public...
Sara Salman, "The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need" (NYU Press, 2023)
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need (NYU Press, 2023) argues that Americans have been abandoned by a government that has relinqui...
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation t...
Stephen Vladeck, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic" (Basic Books, 2023)
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many people are familiar with the United States Supreme Court’s merit docket. Each case follows detailed and professional proceedings that include f...
Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Only recently have scholars outside the historical profession identified progressivism for what it was and continues to be: a fundamental rupture w...
Erik Kojola, "Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range" (NYU Press, 2023)
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in t...
Postscript: Politics, Identity, and the US Supreme Court
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Postscript invites authors to react to contemporary political events that engage their scholarship. Since the Supreme Court is wrapping up their term,...
Ngaire Naffine, "Criminal Law and the Man Problem" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Men have always dominated the most basic precepts of the criminal legal world – its norms, its priorities and its character. Men have been the regul...
Catherine Carstairs, "The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, an...
John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to John L. Rudolph about his book Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should) (Oxford UP, 2023). Few people question the importance of ...
The Ascendance of Social Conservatism in the Public Square
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Within political discussions on the Right, social conservatism is on the rise. Why did the Right have a libertarian phase, and why is it leaving it be...
David A. Banks, "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America" (U California Press, 2023)
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America (U California Press, 2023) is the first book to explore how our cities gentrify b...
Deborah Stevenson, "Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Value, Work and the Social" (Edward Elgar, 2023)
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future for cultural policy? In Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Work, Value, and the Social (Edward Elgar, 2023), Deborah Stevenso...
Housing Insecurity and Homelessness: A Nonprofit Approach
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The problem of housing insecurity and homelessness consumes the resources of many of the world’s major cities. Homelessness undermines urban culture...
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2023)
13 Jun 2023
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...
Patrick J. Charles, "Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, gun control is one of the most polarizing topics in American politics. However, before the 1960s, positions on firearms rights did not necessar...
Tessa Farmer, "Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid co...
Mark R. Warren, "Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (Oxford UP, 2021)
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline...
Arseli Dokumaci, "Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" (Duke UP, 2023)
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or ...
Amanda Apgar, "The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in ...
J. T. Roane, "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place" (NYU Press, 2023)
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. Roane shows how working-class Black communitie...
Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Poor Black women who benefit from social welfare are marginalized in a number of ways by interlocking systemic racism, sexism, and classism. The media...
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters...
Orly Lobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The fear of algorithmic decision-making and surveillance capitalism dominate today's tech policy discussions. But instead of simply criticizing big da...
Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss, "The 'Third' United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think" (Oxford UP, 2021)
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss' book The "Third" United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think (Oxford UP, 2021) is about the T...
Assessing Affirmative Action: A Conversation with Jason Riley
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the Supreme Court poised to potentially outlaw race-conscious admissions, Affirmative Action may soon be on the chopping block. What will be the ...
Scott Timcke, "The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune: Prospects for Prosperity in Our Times" (Bristol UP, 2023)
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Luck greatly influences a person's quality of life. Yet little of our politics looks at how institutions can amplify good or bad luck that widens soci...
May Hara and Annalee G. Good, "Teachers as Policy Advocates: Strategies for Collaboration and Change" (Teachers College Press, 2023)
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
May Hara and Annalee G. Good's Teachers as Policy Advocates: Strategies for Collaboration and Change (Teachers College Press, 2023) argues that teac...
Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoe Meleo Erwin, "Decolonize Self-Care" (OR Books, 2022)
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For twentieth-century feminists, it was a rallying cry for bodily autonomy and political power. For influencers and lifestyle brands, it’s buying fa...
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021 (Cambridge UP, 2022), assistant professor of history at Missouri St...
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (U Nebraska Press, 2020), Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history ...
Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, discusses the ways in which infrastructure deter...
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a majo...
Rob Verchick, "The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience" (Columbia UP, 2023)
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One morning in Miami Beach, an unexpected guest showed up in a luxury condominium complex’s parking garage: an octopus. The image quickly went viral...
Farah Godrej, "Freedom Inside?: Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are meditation and yoga offered to prisoners merely to have them acquiesce to being incarcerated and degraded? Or can they help prisoners interrogate ...
Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. For some, freedom meant the provision of life's necessities, those basic condi...
Eugene Lipov and Jamie Mustard, "The Invisible Machine: The Startling Truth About Trauma and the Scientific Breakthrough That Can Transform Your Life" (BenBella Books, 2023)
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Eugene Lipov about his new book (co-authored with Jamie Mustard), The Invisible Machine: The Startling Truth About Trauma and the ...