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Critical Theory
Interviews with scholars of critical theory about their new books.
September 19, 2024
Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
Today’s book is: Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions (Columbia UP, 2024), by Ernesto Castaneda and Carina Cione, which is a pract…
September 19, 2024
Survival Is a Promise
We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-ce…
September 17, 2024
Power to the People
Power to the People: Use Your Voice, Change the World (Headline Press, 2024) is Danny Sriskandarajah‘s radical manifesto for change designed to inspir…
September 16, 2024
Capital
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Th…
September 11, 2024
Decolonial Muslim Political Activism and Thought in Britain
Hizer Mir in conversation with Yahya Birt who speaks on decolonial Muslim political activism and thought in Britain. This episode was originally publ…
September 11, 2024
Polished
Why do people go to college? In Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility (U Chicago Press, 2024), Melissa Osborne, an associate pr…
September 10, 2024
Are We Experiencing a Crisis of Culture?
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey spoke with Olivier Roy, professor of social and political sciences at the Europe…
September 10, 2024
The Privateers
School vouchers are often framed as a way to help students and families by providing choice, but evidence shows that vouchers have a negative impact o…
September 9, 2024
Museums, Archives and Protest Memory
In Museums, Archives and Protest Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), Red Chidgey and Joanne Garde-Hansen address the emergence of ‘protest memory’ as a…
September 6, 2024
Unsettled
Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine (NYU Press, 2024) digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage wi…
September 4, 2024
The American Surveillance State
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations a…
September 3, 2024
How Mechanisms of Psychoanalytic Defense Perpetuate Racism in America
The third podcast in this series focuses on an article written by Dr. Dionne Powell who participated in the 2014 documentary, “Black Psychoanalysts Sp…
September 3, 2024
Imperial Policing
Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized poverty and inequity, one that relies on an extensive network of repressive agencies to po…
September 3, 2024
The Greatest of All Plagues
Political Theorist David Lay Williams has a new book that traces the problem of economic inequality through the thought of many of the canonical think…
September 1, 2024
The Power of Community
An Amazon # 1 top release Kindle book during its debut, The Power of Community: A 45 Day Action Plan to Stop Trump from Turning Our Democracy into His…
August 31, 2024
What Readers Do
What is reading? In What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2024) Beth Driscoll, an Associate Professor in P…
August 31, 2024
Discipline Problems
Angel, a Black tenth-grader at a New York City public school, self-identifies as a nerd and likes to learn. But she’s troubled that her history classe…
August 31, 2024
Soda Science
Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where power…
August 30, 2024
Write like a Man
In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly m…
August 29, 2024
The Socialist Manifesto
In The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality (Basic Books, 2020), Bhaskar Sunkara explores socialism's hi…