Politics & Society

Politics & Society

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Navigating Landmines at Work: Differences Can Create Value

June 4, 2026

Navigating Landmines at Work

Susan MacKenty Brady

Susan MacKenty Brady is a leadership educator, executive coach, bestselling author, and the founding CEO of the Simmons University Institute for Inclu…

Anand Gopal, "Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution" (Viking, 2026)

June 4, 2026

Days of Love and Rage

Anand Gopal
Hosted by Chris Holmes

From Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal, an epic and enthralling account of six Syrians fighting for a better world, in the traditi…

Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around

June 4, 2026

Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around

Phil Gilbert

Phil Gilbert is best known for leading IBM’s transformation as their General Manager of Design, a project that updated the work of 400,000 IBM employe…

Mary R. Lanni, "Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: Their Legacy and Evolution" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

June 4, 2026

Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids

Mary R. Lanni
Hosted by Mel Rosenberg

In this illuminating conversation with librarian-author Mary R. Lanni, we celebrate her brand new book, Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: Their …

Mollie Barnes, "Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902" (U South Carolina Press, 2026)

June 4, 2026

Paper Heroines

Mollie Barnes

In Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902 (U South Carolina Press, 2026), Dr. Mollie Barnes stu…

Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh trans., "Baidehisha Bilasa: The Amorous Plays of Sita’s Husband" (Wide Open Window Books, 2025)

June 4, 2026

Baidehisha Bilasa

Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh translators
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh bring into English for the first time a long-inaccessible masterpiece of South Asian literature Baidehisha Bilasa: Th…

Max Krahé and Sara Schulte, "Housing Policy At An Expensive Dead End" (Dezernat Zukunft, 2026)

June 3, 2026

Housing Policy At An Expensive Dead End

Max Krahé and Sara Schulte

If governments provide financial support for affordable housing, should they provide support for inhabitants directly, or rather for the construction …

Lauren Duval, "The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2025)

June 3, 2026

The Home Front

Lauren Duval
Hosted by Leah Cargin

Prior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct experience of war. With the outbreak of violence, Brit…

Timothy Fort and Suneal Bedi, "The Vision of the Firm" (West Academic Publishing, 2025)

June 3, 2026

The Vision of the Firm

Timothy Fort and Suneal Bedi
Hosted by Alfred Marcus

The Vision of the Firm (West Academic Publishing, 2025) provides a complete summary of the leading theories of business ethics today. It aims to clari…

Weipin Tsai, "The Making of China's Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation" (Harvard UP, 2024)

June 3, 2026

The Making of China's Post Office

Weipin Tsai

How did a vast, nationwide institution like a modern postal system come into being in Qing China—right at the very end of the empire? In The Making…

Geraldine Fela, "Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia's AIDS Crisis" (UNSW Press, 2024)

June 3, 2026

Critical Care

Geraldine Fela
Hosted by Hannah Forsyth

The claim that real change is enabled by grassroots, community-based movements might seem a distant ideal, but Dr Geraldine Fela shows such assertions…

Rivka Weinberg, "The Meaning of It All: Ultimate Meaning, Everyday Meaning, Cosmic Meaning, Death, and Time" (Oxford UP, 2026)

June 3, 2026

The Meaning of It All

Rivka Weinberg
Hosted by Blain Neufeld

You can stock your life with important work, relationships, activities, and art, and yet, you can still ask: what's the point of it all? Almost every …

Romani Grassroots Language Learning

June 3, 2026

Romani Grassroots Language Learning

Santiago Betancor Falcón

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Dr Santiago Betancor Falcón (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, …

Terao Tetsuya and translated by Kevin Wang, "Spent Bullets" (HarperVia, 2025)

June 3, 2026

Spent Bullets

Terao Tetsuya and translated by Kevin Wang
Hosted by Anthony Kao

With Taiwan Travelogue winning the 2026 International Booker Prize, Taiwanese literature in translation has achieved new heights of visibility in the …

Lawrence Douglas, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton UP, 2026)

June 3, 2026

The Criminal State

Lawrence Douglas

The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice (Princeton University Press, 2026) offers a gripping account of how law has …

Alex Law, "The Roots of Sociology: Scottish Enlightenment and the Civilising Process" (Routledge, 2026)

June 2, 2026

The Roots of Sociology

Alex Law
Hosted by Matt Dawson

The thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment have often been claimed for sociology. But, what does it mean to say these thinkers were sociologists, or a…

Gloria Sibson Ayob, "The Concept of Emotional Disorder" (Oxford UP, 2025)

June 2, 2026

The Concept of Emotional Disorder

Gloria Sibson Ayob

The Concept of Emotional Disorder (Oxford University Press, 2025) is a philosophical and academic exploration of how society determines whether emot…

Rahul Mukherjee, "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" (MIT Press, 2026)

June 2, 2026

Unlimited

Rahul Mukherjee
Hosted by Priyam Sinha

Around 2016, buoyed by so-called data kranti ("data revolution"), an aspirational neo-middle class of users in India accessed internet for the fir…

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me" (37 Ink, 2026)

June 2, 2026

Something We Said

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Hosted by Sullivan Summer

The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. It’s a word that Elizabeth Pryor has not only…

On The State of Black Men's Studies and Black Masculinist Thought Scholarship

June 2, 2026

On The State of Black Men's Studies and Black Masculinist Thought Scholarship

Ronald L. Jackson

Wide ranging interview with Dr. Ronald L. Jackson II, Professor and Department Chair of Communication Studies, the University of Miami. Interview expl…