New Books in Public Policy
Interviews with Scholars of Public Policy about their New Books
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- Description
- Interviews with Scholars of Public Policy about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-23 19:45
- last episode published
- 2024-11-23 09:00
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- 3.27 days
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- 1848
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-23 |
Herbert Hoover gave us Woody Guthrie (with David Cunningham) Welcome to the final episode of What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing the coming four years. David Cunningham, chair of Sociology at Washington Universit... |
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| 2024-11-21 |
Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales Today’s book is: Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States (U California Press, 2024), a which explores how each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Cen... |
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| 2024-11-21 |
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024) An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of collective action. But is group collaboration truly the defining feature of effective democracy? In Civic ... |
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| 2024-11-21 |
An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth) Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing the coming four years. Mark Blyth (whose planned February 2020 appearance was scrubbed by the pandemic) ... |
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| 2024-11-19 | Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institutions of higher education. But a less well-known approach to affirmative action also emerged in the 196... |
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| 2024-11-19 | Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are displaced within their own countries. In We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced (J... |
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| 2024-11-15 | From one of today's most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenges. The world is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth, to politica... |
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| 2024-11-12 | Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman's book What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice (St. Martin's Press, 2024) presents a modern argument, grounded in philosophy and cultural criticism, about childbearing ambivalence and how to overcome it. Bec... |
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| 2024-11-11 | The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and disproportionately affects the poor and racial minorities. Yet the U.S. has never developed the capacity... |
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| 2024-11-10 |
Paul M. Renfro, "The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America" (UNC Press, 2024) In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV throug... |
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