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Public Policy
Interviews with scholars of public policy about their new books.
July 24, 2024
Nothing But Nets
Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria contr…
July 23, 2024
Disability Works
In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project ali…
July 21, 2024
Beyond Complicity
Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Francine Banner is a fascinating cultural …
July 20, 2024
Unsettling Choice
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually …
July 20, 2024
Goliath
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism ha…
July 18, 2024
Equal Care
Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice rat…
July 18, 2024
Parks for Profit
A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into dist…
July 14, 2024
Queering Law and Order
Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of …
July 14, 2024
Grabbing Tea
This interview with Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz about Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Identity and Libraries and Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Ar…
July 14, 2024
The Afterlife of Data
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die. These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but w…
July 11, 2024
The Slow Violence of Immigration Court
Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved through immigration court. With a national backlog surpassing one million cases, court hearings…
July 10, 2024
Model Cases
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material resear…
July 9, 2024
Human Capital
When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they think of charitable efforts to help people displaced…
July 9, 2024
Dismantling Mass Incarceration
In recent years, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define America’s criminal system. The…
July 9, 2024
The Way That Leads Among the Lost
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico Ci…
July 6, 2024
Schooling Inequality
Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds rema…
July 3, 2024
Law and Personality Disorder
In Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation (Oxford UP, 2024), Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin considers the controversial and…
June 30, 2024
Behind Crimmigration
In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigration--what many hav…
June 27, 2024
The Price of Humanity
Amy Schiller, who spent a number of years working in both political and major gift fundraising, has a new book detailing some of the fundamental probl…
June 27, 2024
The Education Wars
A perfectly timed book for the educational resistance—those of us who believe in public schools Culture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist grou…