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National Security April 16, 2021

Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?

Graham Smith

Hosted by Kyle Beadle
Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust …

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Latino Studies April 16, 2021

Abstract Barrios

The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities

Johana Londoño

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is largely facilitated by urban redevelopment and revitalization projects. These projects …
Public Policy April 15, 2021

Ungoverned and Out of Sight

Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States

Charley E. Willison

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
If health policy truly seeks to improve population health and reduce health disparities, addressing homelessness must be a priority. Homelessness is a public health problem. Nearly a decade after the …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast April 15, 2021

Can We Fix Social Media?

A Discussion with Christopher A. Bail

Christopher A. Bail

Hosted by Marshall Poe
In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery April 14, 2021

Chemical Youth

Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life

Anita Hardon

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Anita Hardon's Chemical Youth: Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and …
Latin American Studies April 13, 2021

Just Immigration in the Americas

A Feminist Account

Allison B. Wolf

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Allison B. Wolf's Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) proposes a pioneering, interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice, which defines immigration justice as being about identifying …
Education April 13, 2021

Bearing with Strangers

Arendt, Education and the Politics of Inclusion

Morten T Korsgaard

Hosted by Kai Wortmann
Bearing with Strangers: Arendt, Education and the Politics of Inclusion (Routledge, 2018) looks at inclusion in education in a new way. By introducing the notion of the instrumental fallacy, it shows …
Public Policy April 13, 2021

Engine of Inequality

The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America

Karen Petrou

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy placed much greater focus on stabilizing the market than on helping struggling Americans. As a result, the richest Americans got …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 13, 2021

Cruelty Or Humanity

Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities

Stuart Rees

Hosted by Bede Haines
Stuart Rees's Cruelty or Humanity: Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities (Policy Press, a Bristol University Press imprint, 2020) exposes politicians' fascination with cruelty in their deliberations about policies. Through empirical analysis, human stories and …
Law April 12, 2021

Human Dignity in Context

Dieter Grimm, Alexandra Kemmerer, and Christoph Möllers

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Human dignity is the key term that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights placed at the center of legal discourse on a global level. In 1949, Germany incorporated the concept …
Political Science April 8, 2021

America's Peacemakers

The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights

Bertram Levine and Grande Lum

Hosted by Lilly Goren
The Community Relations Service (CRS) came into being alongside the Voting Rights Act—as part of the Act itself. And this organization was integrated into the Voting Rights Act in 196 …
Sex Work, Sexualities and Sex April 7, 2021

Criminalizing Sex

A Unified Liberal Theory

Stuart P. Green

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Starting in the latter part of the 20th century, the law of sexual offenses, especially in the West, began to reflect a striking divergence. On the one hand, the law …
Public Policy April 2, 2021

The Education Trap

Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston

Cristina Viviana Groeger

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Education is thought to be the route out of poverty, but history disagrees. For generations, Americans have looked to education as the solution to economic disadvantage. Yet, although more people …
Public Policy March 26, 2021

The Wealth Hoarders

How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions

Chuck Collins

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
For decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defense Industry. These ‘agents of inequality’ are paid millions to hide …
Christian Studies March 19, 2021

God’s Law and Order

Aaron Griffith

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
The rise of Neo-Evangelicalism as a social and political American movement accompanied shifting attitudes in broader American criminal justice policies. Religious leaders from Billy Graham to David Wilkerson found growing …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast March 15, 2021

Dying from Despair in the USA

A Discussion with Anne Case

Anne Case

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row—a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In …
Science, Technology, and Society March 12, 2021

Decarcerating Disability

Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

Liat Ben-Moshe

Hosted by Chad Valasek
Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of …
Law March 9, 2021

To Whom Do Children Belong?

Parental Rights, Civic Education, and Children's Autonomy

Melissa Moschella

Hosted by Hope J. Leman
The Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton, which ruled that the Title VII prohibition on sex discrimination in employment extends to discrimination based on sexual orientation and transgender status …
History March 8, 2021

The Next Shift

The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

Gabriel Winant

Hosted by Patrick Reilly
In his book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Healthcare in Rust Belt America (Harvard University Press, 2021), Gabriel Winant explains how the social reproductive …
Public Policy March 4, 2021

Poorly Understood

What America Gets Wrong about Poverty

Mark R. Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, and Heather E. Bullock

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Few topics have as many myths, stereotypes, and misperceptions surrounding them as that of poverty in America. The poor have been badly misunderstood since the beginnings of the country, with …