New Books in Public Policy

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Recent Episodes
  • Jonathan Tarleton, "Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons" (Beacon Press, 2025)
    Jun 9, 2025 – 01:27:05
  • Robert Chernomas, Gregory Chernomas, and Ian Hudson, "The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines" (Routledge, 2025)
    Jun 2, 2025 – 26:31
  • Jaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
    Jun 1, 2025 – 26:48
  • Nicholas Chesterley, "Future-Generation Government: How to Legislate for the Long Term" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
    May 31, 2025 – 36:28
  • Catriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024)
    May 30, 2025 – 44:50
  • Hali Lee, "The Big We" (Zando - Sweet July Books, 2025)
    May 24, 2025 – 43:08
  • Postcript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
    May 20, 2025 – 44:25
  • Tamara Lea Spira, "Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times" (U California Press, 2025)
    May 19, 2025 – 01:06:09
  • Dionne Koller, "More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport" (U California Press, 2025)
    May 18, 2025 – 32:52
  • Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
    May 17, 2025 – 01:11:39
  • False Dawn: A Conversation with George Selgin on Recovering from the Great Depression
    May 16, 2025 – 01:00:16
  • Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
    May 15, 2025 – 01:07:45
  • Michael Buser, "Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context" (Policy Press, 2024)
    May 14, 2025 – 36:41
  • Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
    May 13, 2025 – 35:13
  • Ryan J. Vander Wielen et al., "The House that Fox News Built?: Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    May 12, 2025 – 30:49
  • Patrick Condon, "Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis" (U British Columbia Press, 2024)
    May 10, 2025 – 26:46
  • Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
    May 9, 2025 – 01:13:18
  • Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
    May 8, 2025 – 01:04:21
  • "I have not Finished...": Rokahya Diallo on being Black, Muslim, and frequently interrupted (Emilie Diouf, JP)
    May 2, 2025 – 48:39
  • Claudia Rowe, "Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care" (Abrams Press, 2025)
    Apr 29, 2025 – 01:11:57
  • Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
    Apr 28, 2025 – 01:07:52
  • Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)
    Apr 22, 2025 – 46:19
  • Saleem H. Ali, "Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Apr 21, 2025 – 46:19
  • Reginald K. Ellis et al., "Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation" (UP of Florida, 2025)
    Apr 20, 2025 – 27:48
  • Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
    Apr 19, 2025 – 01:04:57
  • Michael Rosino, "Democracy Is Awkward: Grappling with Racism Inside American Grassroots Political Organizing" (UNC Press, 2025)
    Apr 17, 2025 – 28:19
  • Mary Bosworth, "Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Apr 16, 2025 – 58:36
  • Neil Kraus, "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" (Temple UP, 2023)
    Apr 14, 2025 – 01:15:23
  • Aaron Kupchik, "Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice" (NYU Press, 2025)
    Apr 13, 2025 – 27:43
  • Pandemic Power: The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy - A Liberal Critique
    Apr 12, 2025 – 01:05:20
  • What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions
    Apr 10, 2025 – 53:12
  • Duncan Watson, "Everyone's Trash: One Man Against 1.6 Billion Pounds" (Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2024)
    Apr 9, 2025 – 39:45
  • Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
    Apr 8, 2025 – 50:03
  • Ieva Jusionyte on American Guns in Mexico: Exit Wounds (EF, JP)
    Apr 3, 2025 – 59:35
  • Tiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
    Apr 2, 2025 – 01:09:04
  • Mara Mills et al., "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic" (NYU Press, 2025)
    Mar 28, 2025 – 01:22:43
  • Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco" (U Nevada Press, 2025)
    Mar 27, 2025 – 31:09
  • Amy Adamczyk, "Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    Mar 24, 2025 – 01:00:20
  • In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us--A Conversation with Stephen Macedo (Part 2)
    Mar 19, 2025 – 52:57
  • Jason Schupbach and Rana Amirtahmasebi, "The Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning" (Routledge, 2024)
    Mar 19, 2025 – 01:17:52
  • Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024)
    Mar 18, 2025 – 43:07
  • Gregor Craigie, "Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis" (Random House Canada, 2024)
    Mar 17, 2025 – 33:03
  • Mark Neocleous, "Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police" (Verso, 2025)
    Mar 16, 2025 – 01:25:00
  • Carolyn Whitzman, "Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis" (On Point Press, 2024)
    Mar 15, 2025 – 27:41
  • Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
    Mar 14, 2025 – 01:05:57
  • In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us: A Conversation with Frances Lee
    Mar 12, 2025 – 45:57
  • Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
    Mar 8, 2025 – 01:02:54
  • Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    Mar 7, 2025 – 39:52
  • Gary Griggs, "California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State" (U California Press, 2024)
    Mar 7, 2025 – 01:09:18
  • Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024)
    Mar 4, 2025 – 01:05:37
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