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Darts & Letters
August 5, 2022
American Chernobyl, Part 2
The Most Poisonous Place in the USA
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Gordon Katic
Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. In our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant's largely-forgotten history--how it poisoned the people living downwind. On our season finale: a …
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Interviews with scholars of public policy about their new books.
Economics
August 4, 2022
The Effect
An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
Nick Huntington-Klein
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Peter Lorentzen
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and …
Darts & Letters
August 4, 2022
America's Chernobyl, Part 1
Living in a Poison Town
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Gordon Katic
In this episode of Cited: What it means to live in a place where your home can give you cancer. Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost …
Education
August 3, 2022
Other People's Colleges
The Origins of American Higher Education Reform
Ethan W. Ris
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Joao Souto-Maior
For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed, Ethan Ris argues in Other People's Colleges: The …
Popular Culture
August 3, 2022
Teenage Dreams
Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars
Charlie Jeffries
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Rebekah Buchanan
Utilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Charlie Jeffries' Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars (Rutgers UP, 2022) examines the race- and class-inflected battles over …
Politics & Polemics
August 3, 2022
Goliath
The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
Matt Stoller
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Caleb Zakarin
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time …
Darts & Letters
August 2, 2022
Socialise the Series of Tubes
Toward a Democratic Internet
Ben Tarnoff
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Gordon Katic
Recently a major outage took nearly a third of Canada offline. No phone, no internet… even access to 911 got shut down in some places. So why does one company …
Intellectual History
August 1, 2022
Social Science for What? (Part 2 of 2)
Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation
Mark Solovey
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Keith Krueger
This is part two of a two part interview. Mark Solovey’s Social Science for What? is essential reading for anyone in either the history of science policy or the history of …
African American Studies
August 1, 2022
My Seven Black Fathers
A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole
Will Jawando
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Ari Barbalat
Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized. As a boy growing up outside …
Gender Studies
July 29, 2022
Sex Is as Sex Does
Governing Transgender Identity
Paisley Currah
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Sohini Chatterjee
Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex classification. Many transgender people find …
Environmental Studies
July 29, 2022
Water Always Wins
Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
Erica Gies
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Miranda Melcher
Trouble with water – increasingly frequent, extreme floods and droughts – is one of the first obvious signs of climate change. Meanwhile, urban sprawl, industrial agriculture and engineered water infrastructure …
Education
July 28, 2022
The Privileged Poor
How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Anthony Abraham Jack
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Joao Souto-Maior
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it …
Political Science
July 28, 2022
Ugly Freedoms
Elisabeth R. Anker
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Lilly Goren
Freedom is often considered the cornerstone of the American political project. The 1776 revolutionaries declared it an inalienable right that could neither be taken nor granted, a sacred concept upon …
Education
July 27, 2022
Safe Enough Spaces
A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses
Michael S. Roth
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Caleb Zakarin
From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto, Safe Enough Spaces (Yale UP, 2021) on the crises confronting higher education In this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out …
Darts & Letters
July 26, 2022
The Grift of Meritocracy
All About Grifting (Inside and Outside of the Academy)
Catherine Liu
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Gordon Katic
Our society is dominated by grifters. Cheats, cons, frauds: people who don’t really believe what they tell you. They’re just what they need to do to get ahead or to …
Critical Theory
July 26, 2022
The Flexibility Paradox
Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation
Heejung Chung
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Dave O'Brien
Why are we working harder? In The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation (Polity Press, 2022), Heejung Chung, a professor of sociology and social policy at the University of …
Scholarly Communication
July 25, 2022
Effective Altruism: What it is, What it Does, and How You Can Help
A Discussion with Benjamin Todd of "80,000 Hours"
Benjamin Todd
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Caleb Zakarin
80,000 Hours provides research and support to help students and graduates switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Benjamin Todd is the president and co-founder of …
Intellectual History
July 25, 2022
Social Science for What? (Part 1 of 2)
Battles over Public Funding for the "Other Sciences" at the National Science Foundation
Mark Solovey
Hosted by
Keith Krueger
This is part one of a two part interview. "The social sciences have prospered best in the federal government where they have been included under broad umbrella classifications of the …
The Future of Higher Education
July 22, 2022
The Real World of College
What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be
Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner
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Galina Limorenko
For The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be (MIT Press, 2022), Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,00 …
Darts & Letters
July 22, 2022
Exiled in America
About the Lives of Registered Sex Offenders
Chris Drum
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Darts and Letters
Before Darts and Letters there was a documentary series called Cited. This is one of those documentaries. This episode is about the lives of sex offenders in the USA. The …
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